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  1. Venturous Randy
    I worked on a friend's 89 with a miss and it ended up being a spark plug cap with a corroded resister in it. I replaced the cap and the bike ran great. Have you replaced the caps yet? RandyA
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    Richard, I still have my lowers and also have a late 1st gen chin spoiler. I don't know if I will ever use them. Give me a call sometime. Also, tell Patsy that Laura's 60th birthday is Friday the 30th. RandyA
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    He is wanting to go faster, not slower. RandyA
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    There was a really neat video floating around a while back of an F-14 passing a ship as there was a sonic boom and the vapors formed as it did it. It was neat. RandyA
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    You are welcome condor. I took about a 60 mile ride on it today and it stayed between 1/3 and 1/2 on the gage and the bike ran great. I saw temps on my thermometer up to 68 degrees so it was still a cool day. I just wish I had got down and looked at it this summer when it was so hot. RandyA
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    Kit, thanks for bringing up the comment about the O-ring in the oiling system. This is a previous post I started that gives a little more detail. Thom, this could very well be a problem you are dealing with and it will definately reduce your oil pressure. RandyA http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13425
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    I still use the same one that came on my bike. Infact, I took a ride today as it was about 68 degrees and I think at one time I was close to 8,500 rpms and it was still pulling hard!!! RandyA
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    This could be a good fixer upper for someone. RandyA http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Yamaha-Road-Star-1300-1987-Yamaha-Venture-Royal-1300_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50044QQihZ008QQitemZ180183648990QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
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    This past summer I noticed on several ocassions that my temps were going up a little quicker than in the past when it was hot. A couple of years ago I did the bikini side panel mod and it seems to have helped in keeping the bike cool. This was even the case when I was pulling a 450 pound camper. Wednesday I took the bike to work with the morning temp being about 40 degrees to be able to ride home home with it 70 degrees. In my morning ride the temp gage never got off the bottom. Normally it would still go up to about 1/3 on the gauge for that distance. Well, I finally got down under the bike and discovered that when I pulled the engine to replace the gearset, I must not have set the bypass to the correct position. It normally has the top of the lettering pointing toward the five oclock position. I was 180 degrees off. I rotated it around and took a short ride and the temp gage went up to about 1/3. It is easy to understand the temp staying low during cold weather, but I suspect that the getting warmer quicker during hot weather was due to the coolant going thru the radiator too quick to cool adaquate. RandyA
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    I tried this and it said I have 295 issues in my registry and told me I had to purchase the program to fix more than 50. I never did find out what the purchase price was so I backed out of it. Thanks for your help. RandyA
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    As I just responded in my thread, I went back to spybot, which I already had installed and it appears to have taken care of it. I also believe this site is where I heard about spybot a long time ago. RandyA
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    I may have got rid of it. I have had spybot on my computer for a long time and ocassionally use it. After I was not able to down load anything that pa_don suggested due to low memory, i decided to try the spybot. I first clicked on updates and after about 90 minutes of it going thru my computer and it bringing up 12 different listings on spy schredder, it seems this morning to be gone. At least it did not come up when I turned the computer on and the computer seems to be running faster then it did last night. Anyway, computers are somewhat like motorcycles, you better pay attention which road you go down. Thanks for the help. RandyA
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    Hey thunder, I have heard several speak of having a problem breaking the case and all seemed to be with using the heal-toe shifter, and that is not the way it come from the factory. I think I would consider going back to the stock shifter linkage. RandyA
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    Dan, I have tried to go through the control panel and uninstall it and am told that uninstall is complete, but it comes back every time even after I turn it off and back on. I do have XP but have not tried to reinstall IE7. How do I go about finding this? Thanks, RandyA
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    Somewhere I have picked up spy-schredder and I can not uninstall it. I even went on their web site and it would not bring up their homepage. It has slowed down my computer and everytime I turn it on I have to go thru a bunch of crap just to get it off the screen. Any help is appreciated and any instructions need to be basic. I just had to x out a popup on spy-schredder as I was writing this. Thanks, RandyA
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    Thanks cinderella for the post and to all for the comments. I had missed that post earlier. My C-PAP machine, which was issued by the Veterans Administration, has the humidifer and the different pressures for inhaling and exhaling, so I guess it is a bi-pap, according to the other post. It also has the ramp feature. So far I have not used the humidifier, but I guess it would help if I did. I have awakened with a bit of a sore throat a couple of times. I also have not used the ramp feature as I don't seem to have any problem with the start pressure. Mine also has the card that records data and I have another appointment with the VA in a couple of weeks to take it back and review the data. Again, thanks for the feedback RandyA
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    I know that with as many getting old, too fat and poor sleeping guys on here, that we may have several that use the C-Pap machine. I started trying to use it about two weeks ago and I am not doing too well. Due to snoring and stopping breathing at times, I went through the sleep test and when I did go to sleep with all the monitors that I had hooked to me, I did not sleep long before I was awakened to put the mask on. I had been fitted for the one that just goes over my nose, but after going back to sleep, I was awakened to have a strap put around my head to keep my mouth shut. Now I have my own unit and have chosen the mask that goes over my nose and mouth. I am getting better at going to sleep with it on, but have yet to be able to make it thru the entire night. I usually wake up around 3am and visit the bathroom and then go back to bed. The other problem is that I sometimes wake up after I have evidently stopping breathing for some time and when I wake up with the mask on I feel like I am being smothered. And this is with the mask being pressurized. I have to convince myself to just breath deep for a few seconds to be ok. Anyway, I am looking for any suggestions or at least some encouraging words to keep this up. RandyA
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    For those of you that like old cars, take a look at carsinbarns.com. Many are old muscle cars that have been sitting for a long time. Some will just about bring a tear to your eye. RandyA
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    Ken, I think that tire price is a bit more than I paid for both new Avons for my 1st gen. There is nothing hard about changing out the rear tire. It is just work. You might need to have some help to tilt the bike over a little to pull the tire/wheel out from under the bike. The other thing you will want to do is grease the splines in the wheel. RandyA
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    It is ok to show a purple boobie if it is hairy enough!!! RandyA
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    Here are some threads that you may either can click on or copy and paste to open. RandyA http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2410 http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9026&highlight=gear+undercut http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2410&highlight=gear+undercut
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    Scott, according to how much the leading edge of your 2nd gear dogs are worn, you may have to bring them back square and it also helps if you do an undercut. This causes the gears to actually pull together in a load situation, rather than push apart and "jump". I did the undercut on mine at about 45K miles and if I had known at the time that the thrust washer had been improved on and was harder and thicker, I would have replaced it rather than just flip it over. I still got 60K miles out of it before I decided to go back into it and replaced the entire gear set with one from an 86. I was getting the noise you described, but the bike still had not "jumped" in 2nd under a heavy load, and that also included pulling a 450 pound camper. If you are interested in doing the under cut, there are some on here that have done it and have had good success. This whole job is a lot of work as you have to remove the engine and turn it upside down and split the case to the crank centerline. Another thing you will probably need to do is to either replace the forks or straighten them as they are usually bent some. Again, I just straightened mine up and they worked fine. Another option would be to watch ebay and pick up a gear set, just make sure it is 86 or later. Just let us know what you want to do and we will walk you thru it. RandyA
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    I have to agree with Steve. I used to check and there was never anyone there. I have not tried in a while. I will try again. RandyA
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    I gained about a pound a month while in the Air Force for four years. I got out and lost about half what I gained. Then I started to college and gained 60 pounds. Since then a few more pounds. Yeah, I can wear my hat, but I do still have my dress blues, just for the heck of it. RandyA
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    Folks the thing we are seeing with the toy industry is just the tip of the iceberg. In the 35 years I have worked, after four years in the military, most all of it has been in the Quality Assurance/Quality Control area of manufacturing. I spent over fifteen years for a company that made electric motors for the appliance industry with the last eight being the Corporate Quality Manager over four plants in three different states. Their product was the small motor usually used as the condensing fan motor in refrigerators, water coolers, coke machines, etc. When I left, they were producing 65,000 motors a week. Without naming names I will say that the largest customer's name started with a "W" and ended with an "L" and they made refrigerators and a lot of other appliances. At the time I left, the price of the OEM motor to them was about $7 each. If it was an aluminum frame motor, it was generally a fifteen year motor and if it was a cast iron frame motor, it was generally a twenty year motor. That means that under normal circumstances you did not have to replace that motor for about fifteen years at a cost of $75 to $100 bucks, if the refrigerator was still worth it. This included the service call. The motor sold to the general public for about $30 from a place like Granger. Several years ago, this famous customer decided they wanted to get motors from China and save a few buck on each refrigerator. Now the motor they are using is about a five year motor. Therefore, for them to save a couple of bucks, it would cost the average homeowner up to $200 to keep that refrigerator running over ten years. But then again, they are hoping that by five years you will want another new $1,500 or more refrigerator anyway. To put this into human perspective, the company I worked for had a plant that employed about 200 people (largest county employer) in one of the poorest counties in east Tennessee. This company had some of the most loyal employees that put out some of the best quality. The return rate on their motors was less than one tenth of one percent. That is less than one in a thousand, and historically half of those returns were customer induced problems. Now that plant is closed. After that company, I worked for a company that made aluminum and zinc castings. They also had three plants and then spent millions building a plant in Mexico. One of the castings they made was the case for the Tremeck six speed transmission that went onto the Corvette. They paid seventy cents per hour for labor to make parts for a transmission to go into a $60,000 car. That company ended up closing three plants including the one in Mexico. I have now been with a company that makes tank type water heaters for over four years. Now, almost everything that we use other than the tank and jacket comes from Mexico or China. The only reason they are still in the US is the physical size of a water heater. It absolutely breaks my heart to see what this country is doing with their manufacturing. One of these days it will be just one big service industry. RandyA
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