Bob Myers

I have read this many times and yet to understand what it does to them. I have every spark plug in a drawer(yea, some people keep some of the most worthless stuff!) that was ever in this bike, and 2 others. When it comes time to change them I will have an old set to compare to. Knowing what I should look for would be good too.

When i finished Monday night it was idling around 1100 and sounded pretty smooth, short ride revealed it still has surge around 2200. Today I rode it to work, nasty skies, may rain(I don't care), bike ran like it used to, strong above 3k, will go from 55 to 90 without downshift-in very short order. Filled up with premium fuel, dumped a whole can of seafoam in, rode the 25 miles to work, last 8 or so in heavy traffic, stoplights,etc. I noticed that the idle was creeping up a little, it is now almost 1400, and it has smoothed out even more. I tried to run it at much as possible down low around 1800-2200 so it would be running on the idle circuit mostly, and it seems to have cleared some of it up. Need to run this tank of fuel out and dump another can of seafoam in. Getting it hot(with heavy dose of seafoam), letting it idle, then sit and cool down seems to work quite well for some one too lazy(me) to pull the carbs off Will back the idle down to 1k and hope it creeps back up some again.

Wife rode to work with me so I had to drive the Magnum, I'm riding tomorrow even if it rains Never seen sea foam in spray can yet. I'll have to look for that

Well it never got any better, in fact it felt like it was getting worse and since I had bought the wing I just let it sit. Got it out Sunday to ride to work today, it ran just as badly as it did in Oct, the rest din't do it any good. When i got home from work I pulled the diaphrams back out and looked everything over. Made sure the needles were all the same length, etc. I found nothing obvious, so I put it back together. Put the merc vacuum tubes on it and one carb was doing about 90% of the work at idle, it had near to no vacuum while one other was at the top of the scale. So, I did the touch a screw dance for about 10 minutes, tweek, idle, rev, idle, tweek, repeat. I ended up closer to dead perfect than I think I ever saw it. Put it all back together and rode it down the street. Oh crap!!! It about climbed out from under me when I wacked it open in first. Pulled hard all the way to the end of my nerve in 4th(45mph zone too). Still has the 2200 or so surge but at least all four holes are pulling now, and in the same time frame. Ride to work tomorrow will tell the story, 30 miles interstate, 8 miles of traffic lights, stop/go.

If you intend on a motel stay any where up through there you may be too late if reservations aren't already made.

Thanks for the reference my friend!! Bill, I have heard zero problem with Chris, he is not the quickest guy in the world but that happens when you charge less than and do better work than other folks, you get busy and can't keep up. Call him up, he is good people.

Tina and I rode 369 miles today, mid 80's all day. Ran up on a absolutely fantastic first Gen on the side of the road outside Hazard Ky, caliper/master cyl stuck, they were on fire when we pulled up! That is/was damn hot rear rear brake. We stuck with them util we gor it freed up and they rode off towards home, somewhere areound Sand Gap Ky. Likely one of the cleanest and nicest 87 I ever saw. Absolutely perfect weather for riding, started out at 62º at 8AM, was still 79º at 8PM, read the forecast and they are predicting SNOW for here on Tuesday.

We bought our "starter" house a couple years after we got married. Decided at about 19 years we wanted something different, with everything on one floor, no more steps. We found this 4 bedroom 2 bath in Richmond for far less than it would have cost in Lexington, and jumped on it. After sitting on the other house for 21 months we decided to get busy and sell it, I placed a "For Sale by Owner" sign in the front yard. 4 weeks later we had a contract on it. Yes it was bittersweet to sell, but knowing that I can remove that money from the bank on Monday and pay this on off is quite the comfort. Wonder if I sold it too cheaply??

I too have both a Venture and a Wing, plus a Vulcan

I see this often Jim, 6.7 is a fuel hog, if you can keep heads and injectors on it. A 6.9, 7.3NA will do that 20+ if they are setup right, and owner knows how to maximize the efficiency of the Navistar engine as it was intended.

There is no "downpipe" per say, he does not have a turbo'd engine. It will benfit some from a true dual exhaust setup, as large of a pipe as can be fitted to the heads without getting crazy adapters, a crossover tube about 40"from the rear of the head will significantly help low end pull,and quiet it down some too. One thing many people over look on a NA diesel is the muffler, i wouldn't add Cherry Bombs or such(much too loud for me) but the closest thing you can get to a straight thru muffler, and as short of a muffler as you can buy will help. What gears do you have, it has been mentioned many times already you need a tall gear for highway mileage, but not if it is going to ruin you for takeoff and slow pulling power. What are you intending to do with the truck, commute or pull a load? Knowing which of these is the primary will help get the right info the first time.Also,as mentioned, tires,, what is on there right now? Are you inflating to near max pressure? I had a 92 with 6.9 and a Banks turbo kit, it would do 24 all day at 50-60mph, if I ran it over 60 the mpg would fall like a rock. It was a dually and I put 3.55 gear in to get the mileage up, it had a 4 speed direct, week before I sold it I put a 5 speed od trans in, and new owner wanted the original 4.10 gear back in.

Lifted even an inch will affect mpg, two different brands of tires will affect mpg, gear ratio and driving habits certainly affect it. I have a 96 with 324k on the clock, 4.11, Gear Vendors overdrive, Swamp injectors and a 100hp chip, if I light foot it and practice progressive shifting I can still do 22mpg, truck used to do 26-28 when it only had a couple hundred thousand on it. Firestone tires get me better mileage than Goodyear, both wear and mpg, cheap rock hard tires you could never balance from Walmart went almost 80k miles and gave best fuel mileage yet

Do the battery monitor mod, 2k ohm resistor in one end of the green plug, other end of resistor to a switched 12v source.

Deka in every battery I replace, Venture has second one on now in 8 years, it was only $81.00 when i bought it 2 years ago, just bought a DEKA ETX-18L for my Goldwing, $85.00 including tax My Dodge Magnum has a very unusual battery, DEKA went in to replace the stock factory battery, my Ford diesel has 2 DEKA, so does both Vulcans.

If you are going to add a relay and heavier wiring you might as well pick up the coil exciter signal from the alternator/regulator circuit. Energize the relay only when engine is running well enough for alt to be charging, like the Kawasaki's do. No false start to HID unit.

If it a permitted, licensed install, with documentation from the master plumber, and master electrician who shared the duty of installing. No thanks, you may have mine if you like.

I made the wife a single side headset adapter to use in our sidecar, with no helmet. She does not like to hear music so i wired this to capture the right channel only, when intercom is active it feeds both channels equally so I can have my music on the left and intercom on both, she only gets intercom. Over complicated but it works Any way I used a standard 5 pin Din connector and wired a stereo type plug to it, capturing only the right output/ground, and mic input/ground. She uses a single side headset, I wear a helmet with standard setup. If you use a standard stereo headset you would wire the left also. pic below is of the headset

Icom IC208 is very small, has remote mount head. For today compact cabins that may be best bet, using a remote mount. I am a huge fan of Yaesu, have FTM10R on both of our Vulcans, it too is remote mount or radio mount head. Very nice used ones can be had for under 300, don't get a FTM10S, they are only 10 watts I have a Kenwood TMD 700 on both the Venture and Goldwing, they are remote head as well, quite large display. I have a Yaesu FTM 350 remote mount in my Magnum, that display is very large

I'll try changing to way point and see if it then will stop breaking up the trip. Brian, I have and can do the manual input but for some of the things I want I must have Lat/Lon to complete the poi, some I could do the mundane "spell city/enter house number/ enter street/ etc. When working 10 or so poi that gets very frustrating.

I have several GPS units, the favorite being a Nuvi 760. It will do the "route" mapping but you must input each waypoint(or POI) either via physical address(usually impossible, most covered bridges and monuments off the main road don't have address), or via Lat/Lon coordinates. Sounds easy enough, right? What I want to do is develop a map either in HD tripplanner, Honda tripplanner or Google earth, and be able to load it directly into a route. I have been struggling with this for over a week and nothing I can find will allow you to save to the "route" section of the GPS. If you save the .gpx file to the GPS then it breaks the trip into how ever many "stops" or "waypoints" you have and to continue you must scroll back into the menu and select the next point of interest. Just no way to transfer the whole trip as one trip, as it was saved. I really hate to but yet another GPS but I will if a mapping program cannot be had that will transfer correctly. I suspect the GPS is going to have to be the answer.

I wish you would tinker with mine, it slowed down when I replaced the diaphragms.

I read almost daily of the local PD busting a meth lab in one of the dozen or so local motels. It has become a serious problem in our area too. Maybe the legalization/taxation of pot could allow the focus of enforcement to go after these labs,, probably not but I can hope it does.

Almost exactly my thoughts. That plus the tax revenue created if they tax it as heavily as cigarettes.

She does not want a full on headset, I have several sets like this, each has the correct 600 ohm mic. She'll be using this while riding in the sidecar when the full face helmet is too much

I am in need of a similar setup as that plug except I want to use the intercom too. Nothing I can find on the market will do what I want, unless I have overlooked them somewhere. My goal is/was to use a single side headset and boom mic, and plug that into the 5pin din on the Venture or my Goldwing. 2 wires for headset speaker, 2 wires for mic. Having no luck finding such, I made my own adapter setup. Still be nice to find a production made unit though