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  1. Venturous Randy
    Ditto, exhaust popping is normally associated with an exhaust leak that is drawing oxygen back into the pipe during deceleration causing burn and popping. RandyA
  2. Venturous Randy
    Jim, I would love to meet up with you, but it would probably scare the heck out of you how some of us ride these 1st gens. 8,000rpm's is a pretty routine thing on my bike and it has over 130,000 miles on it, and I have put on over 107,000 of these miles. It just seems like me and the bike love it. RandyA
  3. Venturous Randy
    Thanks snaggletooth for the pictures. I have always used the 5:00 comment as that is much easier to see. But my comment is that is where the TOPS OF THE LETTERS point to and that is exactly what your pictures show for the proper run position. RandyA
  4. Venturous Randy
    Very cool there Thom. Randy
  5. Venturous Randy
    Not sure about the oil leak and if you had one before, it should have shown up before, but why are you lowering the front of the bike? RandyA
  6. Venturous Randy
    For years I have used Autolites that I get from Advance Auto for a little over a buck each and they work just fine. RandyA
  7. Venturous Randy
    I think the biggest thing for me is where I ride. If I do a lot of 40 to 55 mph riding through the mountains and two lane "Blue Highways", even two-up and the occasional WOT run through 1st and 2nd, I am still getting in the high 40's. But, if I run a lot of interstate at 65 to 70mph, my mileage drops into the low 40's, even if I am one-up and not cranking it on. I am wondering if going to the 2nd gen RSV trans will help this. Squidley, I know what you are saying and felt absolutely the same way and keep in mind, I have put over 106,000 miles on this bike. Even in the past when I would do a patch job on the diaphragms and the bike ran real good, I still did not get better than about 42mpg. I am now at the point of having 150 miles on the odometer and still two bars left and in the past, I hardly ever saw any bars at 150 miles. Most of the time, it had been blinking for a while. The really great thing about this is I don't think it has hurt performance at all. RandyA
  8. Venturous Randy
    Gerald, I have been very happy so far with my Oddesy. So far, it hasn't mattered whether it is 20º or 100º with a hot engine, it cranks right up. With my old wet batteries, more than once I got caught when it was hot and the bike did not want to start. I have had mine a couple of years. Now, I would probably consider the Deka battery. RandyA
  9. Venturous Randy
    All together, I put 641 miles on my 83 this weekend, none on the interstate and some up and down mountains. The 1st fill up averaged 49mpg. The best to this point was 47/48 mpg. I used to be happy with 40mpg as I usually got about 38 at best. This includes the needle change and new diaphragms. I think he should be getting better than 42. RandyA
  10. Venturous Randy
    Had a wonderful ride yesterday around the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina. Got to ride a little on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but much of it in the area I was in was closed. I rode across the Lynn Cove Viaduct near Grandfather Mountain, took a detour south and then back on to Little Switzerland. It is amazing how much tree damage there is there. In some areas, almost all the top parts of the limbs are broken off of every tree. There have also been many trees down in the areas that are open. I bet the higher areas around Mt Mitchell or south of Asheville were really bad as they were 3,000 feet higher than where I was. Most of the temp along the Parkway was around 80º and when I came down 226A to Marion, NC it was 88º. I went back over the mountain to highway 80, the Rooster tail, toward Burnsville and back across Roan Mountain. When going across Roan, which is a little over 5,500 feet at the gap at about 6pm, it was still about 65º. As I crossed over in to Tennessee, there was a lot of snow beside the road, most, much more than a foot deep. The road did not have any snow, but there was still more sand a stuff on the road than I wanted to ride on. But overall, it was a marvelous ride. What was also great was when I filled up in Spruce Pine, I got 49mpg. I have gotten 48 several times after making the needle adjustment and replacing diaphragms, but this was the first time I got 49mpg. RandyA
  11. Venturous Randy
    Had a wonderful ride yesterday around the mountains of east Tennessee and western North Carolina. Got to ride a little on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but much of it in the area I was in was closed. I rode across the Lynn Cove Viaduct near Grandfather Mountain, took a detour south and then back on to Little Switzerland. It is amazing how much tree damage there is there. In some areas, almost all the top parts of the limbs are broken off of every tree. There have also been many trees down in the areas that are open. I bet the higher areas around Mt Mitchell or south of Asheville were really bad as they were 3,000 feet higher than where I was. Most of the temp along the Parkway was around 80º and when I came down 226A to Marion, NC it was 88º. I went back over the mountain to highway 80, the Rooster tail, toward Burnsville and back across Roan Mountain. When going across Roan, which is a little over 5,500 feet at the gap at about 6pm, it was still about 65º. As I crossed over in to Tennessee, there was a lot of snow beside the road, most, much more than a foot deep. The road did not have any snow, but there was still more sand a stuff on the road than I wanted to ride on. But overall, it was a marvelous ride. What was also great was when I filled up in Spruce Pine, I got 49mpg. I have gotten 48 several times after making the needle adjustment and replacing diaphragms, but this was the first time I got 49mpg. RandyA
  12. Venturous Randy
    I have run a strobe in my headlight for about 13 years and about 100,000 miles. So far, so good, but even with the strobe, it has been the loud airhorns that have saved my butt on a few occasions. I want to be nice here, but if a person rides a mororcycle and does not have loud horns on their bike, they are stupid. Not to say that my loud airhorns will always save me, but I know that so far I have had about a half dozen encounters that the other people were absolutely commited to pull into me and I would NOT have been able to miss them. RandyA
  13. Venturous Randy
    Welcome aboard and just to let you know, some of can be a pretty nice guy........occasionally.............well, once in a while........would rarely still count? RandyA
  14. Venturous Randy
    As we are getting ready to go into what is a three day weekend for some of us( I get Good Friday off), along with the temperatures looking at being in the mid to lower 80's for Friday and Saturday, I know there are going to be a bunch of us out there. I know that for me, this is the weekend that I have been living for after the most miserable winter I can remember in a long time. The really sad part about this is it is almost like clockwork in our area, there will be a motorcycle related incident. It will either be a cage/bike, an inexperenced new rider, someone pushing it too hard for the conditions or alcohol related. This will be especially true for a weekend like this. So, I am saying this to me, just like the rest of you, be careful out there. RandyA
  15. Venturous Randy
    Hey Rooster, you are going to have to quit telling people about the Rooster Tail. That is a really great ride and if you keep going it will be bumper to bumper bikes, if a bike had a bumper. RandyA
  16. Venturous Randy
    It was in the lacal paper that a contract has been released for 2 million dollars to cleanup the rock slide on 129, The Dragon. There is also a stipulation of a $6,500 bonus per day for each day finished earlier than July 31, or a penality of $6,500 for each day going over July, 31. RandyA
  17. Venturous Randy
    I am pretty comfortable in saying "It is not the YICS". Due to a problem I had with a hose connection on my YICS, I removed all of it a couple of years ago and my bike runs great. I actually could not tell any performance difference, and the only difference on the Jason mod was that the idle was a bit more lumpy. I suspect you may still have a vacuum leak somewhere with what you are describing. I also want to say that when you put plug caps on the YICS ports, they need to be good, heavy caps as they will leak otherwise or not last long. I also suggest that you keep a couple of caps in your tool bag, as a backfire can blow one off. Spray some starter fluid around that area while it is idleing and see if anything changes. Another thing I keep telling people is to check the condition af your spark plug caps. I spent several hours trying to fix a miss on a friends 87 and finally narrowed it down to a corroded resistor in a spark plug cap. Also, if you have been running very much Sea Foam thru the carbs, you may need more spark plugs. Another good thing that came out of my carb upgrades of new diaphrahms and the needle depth reset is if I am loafing around two up and not running 75 down the interstate, I can just about average 47mpg. Not too long ago, I was tickled with 40mpg. RandyA
  18. Venturous Randy
    Given you may have more than one gauge giving a funky reading, my suspicion would be a loose ground somewhere. RandyA
  19. Venturous Randy
    Dan, I think I am finally getting over a cold I have had for about two weeks. I have been drinking ZiCam liquid and I guess it has helped. I did not even ride the bike last Saturday, even though it was 60º because I wanted over this thing. My big motivation is for this three day weekend that is supposed to be up to 80º. RandyA
  20. Venturous Randy
    Back in about 72 I took a trip from east NC to Fla with my uncle to deliver an airplane that was on a big boat trailer(the wings were off). He was driving a 1966 Olds Toronado and we ran into a bunch of love bugs in Fla. You could drive a couple of miles and would have to stop and clean the windshield, or you could not see. I remember that he finally figured out that if he turned his headlights on, which caused the lights to raise up, it caused enough air turbulance to make most of them go over the car. That brought up a memory from a long time ago. They are called Love bugs because they fly around two at a time mating. RandyA
  21. Venturous Randy
    I have heard it stated here that an engine runs cooler on premium. It is my understanding that due to premium burning slower, it actually baths the cylinder walls more as it is burning while the piston is driven down during the power stroke, therefore adding more heat to the engine. At least that was the way it was explained to me by someone that knows a lot more than me. RandyA
  22. Venturous Randy
    Not familar with the Asheville may 7-13 campout. Is this bike related? Or is this even Asheville, NC? RandyA
  23. Venturous Randy
    The numbers I posted earlier were taken from the Venture History pages or the manual. I just assumed that all 2nd gens had the same trans ratios, but evidently they don't. I'm glad the RSV is slightly lower. Thanks for pointing that out. RandyA
  24. Venturous Randy
    The ratios of the gearset I have, which was supposed to have come from a 2000 RSV are: 1st 2.43 2nd 1.63 3rd 1.20 4th 0.96 5th 0.785 This is with a gear count of each set. Going to a V-Max gear would increase these numbers by about 11%, or increase the final output rpms by about 11%. To go from a .906 5th gear on a 1st gen to a .785 would drop the rpms about 13.4% the way I figure it. If anyone disagrees, please let me know. RandyA
  25. Venturous Randy
    Usually just tightening the crimp on the connections at the sending unit will fix most of the problems. Just remove the seat and you will see. RandyA
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