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  1. Condor
    The West Marine stores also carry rubber flat washers. When I first bought the '91 the P.O. installed star conchos under each one of the rack posts and the first time it rained the truck got really damp. So I took black marine caulk and removed one screw at a time and squirted caulk into each hole filling the underside of each concho. No more leaks...
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    They also came in the tool kits with the first few years of Venture production. I have one..... somewhere??.... really... I've seen it...
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    IMHO.... Reverse bleed the system.....
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    OK, here's the final tail of the tape. The 'put is up and runing again with 2 HDs. One 80G and one Teribyte. The end result is I lost a ton of info. Not all of it, but at least 50%. Luckly all the family pics, and biz info, survived, but all the Venture pics and articles are history. It's rebuild time. Even lost all email addresses. I'm slowly but surely rebuilding the address book. Thanks to everyone for all the help and suggestions.
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    One of the problems with any 'Motorsports' battery is they only give them a 1 .... maybe 2..... year warantee. Even the AGM's as good as they are. You would think that the industry would stand behind their AGM hype, and put a 3-5 year on the things, but old habits die hard I guess.
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    OK.... Now I'm really jealous......!!!!
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    Sounds lke it's electrical. Maybe a bad pickup or TCI?? I'm sure there are a lot of other areas to look at, but that's a start... When it cuts out, does it backfire when it kicks in?? Something's breaking down somewhere??? I could even be a bad battery or stator. Not enough amps to fire the plugs at high end....??
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    You can actually get a vehicle in your garage.....
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    This guy must be smokin somethin'??? Ebay Pumpkin
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    Need to know. Are you dropping a cylinder or are you dropping them all.....??
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    Mime's one winning lotto ticket away........
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    So who has the messiest Garage? Take a look at these.... GARAGES
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    Don't think it's possible using the board email function. It might be possible to take a pic of the chart and post that to the thread using the manage attachments function???
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    Just wondering.... Years ago I bought a brand new VW Rabbit. It started using oil almost from the git-go. When I took it in the VW dealer service dept said it needed a heavier oil, and that did stop it til right after it went out of warantee.. I knew I'd been snookered but by then there wasn't much I could do about it. So I just kept adding oil and changing the filter. Never did another oil change. Drove it for 150,000 miles that way. Anyway fast forward about 6 or 7 years and I receive a notice in the mail that VW America was being sued by the FTC because VW knew the problem existed but instructed the dealers to lie to the owners about what the problem really was, and not fix it. Which was a faulty valve angle in the head design. The FTC won their case and VW had to recall every car and make it right. In my case instead of fixing the problem I just cashed out and VW wrote me a check for $1800. About half of what it would cost to have a dealer R&R a rebuilt engine. So.... my point is, perhaps Yamaha is doing the same thing, and maybe it's going to take more than getting an 'I' basket, but rather a class action to get resolve???
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    Just go pick up a new Venture starter off Ebay, put it in, and be done with it. A 2 brush will work just fine....
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    Bleed the clutch and check that the expansion hole at the base of the reserve is not plugged up.
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    Oh man... Look at that garage!! I'm jealous.... The rest of the place is pretty nice too...
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    Posting just because......
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    Now there's two yellows.... http://www.venturerider.org/forum/vbpicgallery.php?do=view&g=1091
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    Why does this link take me to my personal watching page????
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    Condor replied to jonesy's topic in Watering Hole

    20MB??? Hah!! I started on a Burroughs 220 tube and we had 10K!!!!!!! Used to take up the whole room with AC in the subfloor to keep the tubes from overheating....
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    With all the MAC's that have been put on there's gotta be a couple of nice OEM sets floating around out there....
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    Congrats......
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    Very nice.... I used to make lots of sawdust, but now I collect VR parts... Still enjoy an older piece brought back to life....
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    I toss in a whole can to 5 gals. when starting an engine that's been sitting for a couple of years. A couple of ozs. to a full tank when the bike is riden regularly will do. Maybe half a can to a full tank over the winter.
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