Popsnana19655

Looking at 87 venture tomorrow. With 36k miles. Is there anything major I need to for. Or know problem for that year.

this is the way to load a bike properly. You only get to use one rope to tie it down.

Can you guys turn off the the snow machine. I need to pick up a bike in Ohio and get it down to Arkansas. From @luvmy40. I know y'all like your snowmobiles up north.❄️🤠

That I can believe from this group. Everyone I have talked to has been friendly and helpful.

Thanks @luvmy40 for the call. Need to step up a relay of members. Everyone ride it a few miles. That would be awesome. LMAO. United the north and south, east and west. A thought have a 83 venture relay . Pass the bike from member to member . Everyone ride and sign it , post a picture or video riding it. Maybe have yamaha sponsor a new bike to compare old with new.

Thanks for the reply. So fast.. If I can ride it back home. I will ride a bus, walk or hitchhick to where ever. I need transportation for work.

Need a 83 venture that runs. Need it for work. I travel around the state. Given up on mine. Blown head gasket and been sitting outside too long. Looking for another one. Funds are limited. So if you have extra one sitting around you don't ride. I'll give it a life and try to put a million miles on it 🤠. @cowpuc LMAO 😆

Some of the things they have made . Was hoping it was a 3D printer when we came to visit. Thought y'all might like them . Happy holiday everyone..@cowpuc @Freebird

Daughters got laser printer . VID_20201205_181411.mp4

BPoured into both sides of the head. Intake and exhaust ports holes. Like in the shop videos. I will take some pictures.when the rain stops. The valves didn't hold the gas on either side or on top of the valves surface with the plugs in. Got gas everywhere. Glad I did it over the fire pit. Scared everyone when I lit it 🤣. Bonfire great stress relief.

.Ok cleaned the head up. Think someone had changed the head before. There's a ingraving on it. (C.Y-10) or (G.Y.-10). The surface is pitted a little bit and the valves are not seating. Poured a little gas into it . Seaped though. Wiped down around the valves. Did again. Same results. @Cowpuc

Ok cleaned the head up. Think someone had changed the head before. There's a ingraving on it. (C.Y-10) or (G.Y.-10). The surface is pitted a little bit and the valves are not seating. Poured a little gas into it . Seaped though. Wiped down around the valves. Did again. Same results. So I think valves and blown head gasket. that is answer to the water 💦 in the carbs. If there's a way to post it .So if it happens again to someone. I put 2 band-aid and hit it with a hammer 🔨 in the right places. Just need to know where and how hard to hit it. Not allowed to hit myself in the head anymore. To many concussion and I quit drinking. Can't ask Bubba to hold my soda and bump my head in the wall. People will think your insane. Anyway, so what's the best way to do this. Whole motor or the head redone. No transportation no money till fixed. We travel for work remodeling. So cheapest way. Cause it's going to be running again some way or @Freebird, @Marcarl @cowpuc, @Patch

Welcome to the group. Any information you need. They have the answers for you. I'm new here also. Working on a blown head gasket. There's a lot of good people here.

Hey these guys know all about this bike. Believe me. I'm working on mine. Got my Motor pulled and head off . Blown head gasket for sure . Still cleaning everything up. So they can tell me what I need to do it. OR replace the motor. I'm from Dallas. Moved Joplin Missouri 3yrs ago. Love it no traffic no traffic. Check out a bar called SCOOTER'S in Garland or The Brick in Wylie tell them Pops and Nana sent you.

Both chain guides are there. Thought it was missing but it's down lower by chain tensioner.

E. when I pull on it cleaning it there is no head gasket .. My bad there was a head gasket on there just a metal piece. VID_20201101_160801.mp4 VID_20201101_160845.mp4

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These are the pics where I've got so far I had one of my twin nephews helping me he's 2 years old. And this is pictures of one and three or rear valve cover water sitting in the head bolts. And I will break stuff first thing I broke is the grabber for that little water port thing by the spark plug. It barely touched it in a plastic just broke it turned pretty easy but when I went to grab it plastic was gone. so now I'm going to figure out how to get it out without shattering it all to a million pieces and get everywhere. Be right back after these messages.

So I need to start looking for a motor. Seen some on E-bay. I hate buying online. Everytime I've ordered parts for cars. Something wrong or missing. Well I Post pictures as I go. May help with the debating about water in the carbs. I'm a parts changer, not a mechanic. So let see what we find inside the old girl's head.

Can't really afford a new motor or bike at the moment. Thank you for the all the help so far. Didn't see the debating. Took a while to read it all. before I did anything else in case of another compression test was in order. To find out how the water was going up to the carbs overflows. I haven't pulled the other valve covers off cuz I started reading. But I really like this bike and I want it running again. This is the only bike that at 100 MPH. Feels like 65-70. Most of bikes the speedometer and gauges of the first to go. Cuz we put a lot of miles on bikes driving around in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Moved up to Joplin Missouri and just loved it. No traffic no traffic and the roads up here are pretty good. And from the picture and youtube I seen of cowpuc and tip. which I got to meet. We ride pretty much the way they do load it down,rain or shine,hot or cold. Some body did put a 1300 front forks on it . Did see that on the triple clamps. 🙂 There's a bike wrecking yard West60. Got my tires and carburetor boots from them. Will check with them Tuesday.

After this last post I just went back and been reading ever since.now before I go any further is there any test that you want me to try motor is out sitting on the ground. All I've done is remove the valve cover. When I talk to puck when I started this. I did the compression test never went over 15 lb of pressure in the radiator the water was coming out of the carb top overflows under the seat. The radiator test would not hold pressure so I would pop it up and go over there by the number one cylinder to find out where it was leaking it was leaking there then finally out the oil drain plug. And water was coming out of the carb sink plug. If that helps with the long discussion you are having with this. This is my second water cooled bike. Restored an 81 silver wing. Gl500 it was a baby goldwing. Never had an overheating problem and ended up doing donating it to Shriners hospital. The bike set in storage 5 years From the original owners kids after he passed buddy had it for two years in his storage gave it to me cuz I like old bikes and I was working on his Harleys. Tell there was a problem getting the title so we didn't donate it back to the Shriners hospital cuz it was a parade bike. Which is one of many of the bikes I have given away for free but that's another story for a later time

Okay guys weather fine cleaned up long enough to pull the engine I just got the engine out. And I removed the valve cover and that's as far as I got .I'm been cleaning the motor. Yeah I had it on the jack and actually put bolts backwards in the top motor mount area so I could have something to hold on to and ended up pick it up by hand and twisting it out the front side had a little nub it was hanging on. Put bolts in the top motor mount have hand holes it really helps. Also noted with the valve cover off one of the chain guide is missing. And and I got lucky and hit top Dead center the first try. And and is this cover supposed to look like this. Thank you guys and I will keep you posted have a problem holding a damn phone and taking pictures oh one last thing I don't know if it'll show up. The wear on the cams is that normal wear or that little triangle at the top it's like that on all of them I got close up flashes not letting you get a good picture. Just a note from riding air Cooled the fins like this on the they're on the bottom of the motor I have to clean them everything else they're to help cool the bike and if they're full of crud dirt and stuff it won't help but on the bottom back side of the motor a half inch thick so they down on the ground and clean them out it will help cool your bike down a little bit I hope or it should. Easy to take a picture of these things then rolling the motor up and trying to hold and take a pic.

Never had to do that. We just put on thicker gloves and extra thick socks. But we just moved to Joplin Missouri from Dallas Texas. Need Wind therapy year round. Working on my bike now. Feeling a little under the weather not being able to ride now.

Good then. I'm about ready to pull it. Just got the drive shaft left to do. Do I need to pull the rear wheel. Or disconnect at the york there. Stopped there got attached by my twin 2yo nephews . They're helping with taking parts and tools then running. LOL looking up drive shaft now.