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If you get the opportunity to ride one, do so. They have a different power curve as they like the RPM's. They are a bullet proof platform for the most part, 200K on one is not a stretch. The feet fwd ride is very comfortable, they are a bit top heavy, but are easily gotten used to with a bit of saddle time. As Gary mentioned the RSV has not changed pretty much at all from '99 to present. They are a great machine and extremely comfortable for the long hauls. I personally have done some 800 mile days on them.

I didn't pull the shaft apart, the owner brought it to me to help diagnose it. He and another friend pulled it apart and replaced it. I'm not sure if he was able to find it new or had to get a used one. If you do need one, I know there are several here on the site with parts motors and bikes so it really shouldn't be an issue to find one.

I went and checked the site out, they actually have some pretty good prices. Cheaper than where I normally buy from, not by much, but still cheaper, and they are here in Texas

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Yes you can, your brakes will still be linked. But the ends will be twisted a bit as the banjo mounting hole in the caliper is angled differently. I just went ahead and delinked when I did the mod.

If they feel equal to, or worse than the stock ones you took off, something isn't right. Perhaps you didn't get all the air out, speedbleeders are a great gadget, but I have found them to be somewhat of a bear with trying to do an entire swap out. I always go old school and do the pump up and crack the bleeder. I have done several brake jobs that took a while to get all the air out. One thing I found was not all banjo bolts are created equal. I swapped my '86 over to R1's and delinked the brakes. I used parts from several different bikes to do this, here's my write up... http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65356&highlight=Banjo+Bolt

Sunny and 70 just north of Houston today

You would think that you would learn Tom, talk about jinxing yourself....

We'll leave the sun on for you in the south

Happy Birthday Buddy!!!

Thank you for coming on and updating us, we will continue to keep y'all in mind. The outlook seems promising as he's getting better, we will keep looking for good news from you. Take care of yourselves and just take it 1 day at a time. Dont overwhelm yourself and just breathe, it sounds to me like Justin wants to continue being here...all the best:thumbsup2:

All the best to your son, his youth will be greatest strength. We will be talking with the man upstairs.

Thats what Yamaha claims happened to Zipcodes bike, and it threw the rod right out the side of the block. I would tend to agree with Carl, it more than likely will have some rod damage because that force is going somewhere.

Your quickly becoming a go to technical guy here, hope you had a great Birthday Buddy

David's bike, as far as I remember did not have either. It was the stock links, his bike wasn't lowered to the best of my knowledge and he was a bit short to have leveling links on it. Just looking at those pics it is Ponch's bike, I can tell by the trunk and the badges on it. Funny that it has taken a year and a half to see it being parted out :-(

I worked on a MKII probaly 5 or 6 years ago when I lived in Michigan that had a similar deal. It turned out that the output shaft, where the fwd u joint connected on to was broken. The spring in the driveshaft kept it pushed fwd and it would still engage, but would make a hell of a racket and buck when rolling the power on. It's located inside the rubber boot at the fwd part of the shaft on the swingarm where the driveshaft goes through. Might want to check that, I haven't heard of many MKII transmissions jumping out of gear, just the MKi's with the 2nd gear issue...

All the best to you Annie, get it squared away and then bring your butt over here and ride yourself into therapy

I rarely get sick, in the past 10 years I can count them on 1 hand. This year I have been sick 3 times, for almost 2 months strait through November and December. It has been a very bad year for all sorts of nasty stuff. Pharyngitis, Strep Throat, and upper respiratory have been the 3 thing that got me this season so far Hope you feel better soon my friend

The sidewall is what really doing the majority of the work when your running full pressures. Underinflation will do the damage on the inside of the tire, where nobody see's it. I know where your going with the max pressure and that of the truck. Many people don't know how much weight they are carrying. I tell folks this to keep a margin of error, besides people that understand how tires work, who religiously checks their tire pressures? A truck is a perfect example, guys think "it's a truck, it's meant to haul weight" thats true, but just about every 1/2 ton truck has P (passenger) rated tires and not LT (light truck) dump a load of stone or a bunch of lumber in the back and that tire is in trouble if it's not at max air pressure. If you understand how tires work, you can figure out your perfect pressure, but I know I dont (read not going to) have the time to play with that. I rotate the tires at about 6K and keep them right up at max. I get reasonable wear and I'm not concerned with a tire being underinflated should I load the truck up with gear or folks or both and pull a trailer. It's just easier for me to do it like this and forget it. It's all about how you take care of your vehicle, some folks are good at checking their pressures....many aren't

Happy Birthday Cliff!!! Many more to you my friend

I dont necessarily disagree with you Jeff, a healthy dose of common sense goes in with all this. Many folks aren't like us here with bikes and such. I can't tell you how many thousands of people I had to educate on tire pressures. It's somewhat easier to err on the side of caution and keep the tires damn near fully inflated than guess or not know squat about them and risk blowing out a tire....

I ran a tire store back in the late '90's when the Ford/Firestone debacle was going on. I'll NEVER run a tire by what the vehicle mfgr says in the door jam. I have always ran the tires at what the max sidewall pressure states. The tires are designed to run at that pressure and the sidewalls are engineered to keep the tread in the optimum shape. Something a lot of folks dont think about is an underinflated tire, will heat up and delaminate a lot faster in hotter climates. This is what happened with the Explorers with the Firestones on them. It happened in the deep south, Texas, Arizona and such. The tires blew out due to being under inflated and the vehicles crashed. Pay attention to the sidewalls, my wifes SUV had a P rated tire on it and the pressure is 44lbs. If I ran them at 35lbs, which many tires are, I would be seriously underinflated. 1 more thing to keep in mind, the max load rating of the tire is calculated with the tires being at their max pressure. Lower the tire pressure, more diminished the load capacity...

Great news Lewis, many congrats to you and your daughter, I know you and Charlene are very proud...as well you should be.

Mind you what I'm about to say is only based on 1st gens, but the engines are almost identical. I have run my 1st gens over 8K on the rpms and the valves were not floating, it still pulled well. The 7500K is probably not going to hurt your motor. The reason it has a rev limiter is due to Yamaha offering the 5 year unlimited mile warranty. I know a vast majority of the G2 guys have the limiter set at 7250K and are pretty happy with it. Try it out and see what you feel is right for you.

Mike, I know several members here that have done the swap on the G2, Freebird being one of them and Leadwolf56 being another. I have talked with both of them on it and they love it, great for pulling a trailer, or just a little more seat in the pants, like 05 silver mentioned "Just do it"