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Hey Blue Sky, sounds like you're suffering from getanewone syndrome...

If you do decide on swapping your starter motor to a 4 brush, and 2nd Gen starter is a direct bolt on! You should be able to find one on eBay for well under $100, like in the neighborhood or around $70.

Back in '09 when I had the great electrical fire on my '84, the wife said to me "Why don't you just buy a new one??" Within 24 hours I had my '09 RSV...

Happy Wife, happy life!!!

Hey Lewis!! As usual, I didn't respond immediately but of course, when I read this earlier I immediately prayed!!

Hey YPC, welcome!!! There are quite a few VR members close to you in TO and surrounding areas so you will have plenty of riding buddies!! Hope to meet you either at the July Niagara Falls Rallye or the August Western NY Northeast Regional Rally in August, if not sooner!

OK, no problem at all, sell it to your friend!! I had a deal literally fall into my lap, so since February I literally own one for a SONG!! Thank you very much for being my friend!! That means a lot to me!!! EDIT: Yes, we are both very happy and healthy, but not the case a couple of weeks ago, we both were sick but now are fine!! We are leaving on vacation next week for a month!

July is the Ontario, Canada Rallye. August is the Western New York Northeast Regional Rally.

Holy cow, Abdul, yes, I completely forgot!!! In the meantime, I came in possession of one over the winter, but I am still interested!! If you can hold on to it until July I plan on making the Niagara Falls Rally, or if you can transport it to Caledonia Wizard765 comes over here often, as a matter of fact, he was just here today! I know, why would I want two?? Well, I'll keep the brand new one for myself and donate the used one for a door prize or something like that...

Made me think of this song...

At least it's not a V Twin...

The original purpose of the probe was to alert you if your electrolyte in your battery was low which could have prevented you from being stranded somewhere with a dead battery. It went into the middle cell of your battery. As long as there was liquid at the level of the probe it "sensed" 6 volts but as soon as the level went below the probe it saw zero volts and triggered the logic circuit in the Computerized Monitoring Unit (CMU). Depending on what type of battery you buy for a replacement, it may or may not accommodate the probe. Sometimes the probe would get dirty or corroded and quit working. There is detailed information on how to bypass the probe and fool the CMU into thinking everything is all right. It requires a resistor anywhere within 2000 ohms to 4000 ohms, 1/8 to 12/4 Watt to be installed in series with the probe wire to 12 volts accessory. In simple terms, in series means to solder one end of the resistor to the probe wire, and attach the other end, via a wire, to the accessory terminal on the fuse block. If you do not use this series voltage dropping resistor you will fry the circuit in the CMU. You also do not really want to hook up the resistor directly to the battery as it will very slowly drain the battery as the bike is stored...

As far as antifreeze goes, a 50/50 mixture provides the optimum protection regardless of what engine it goes in! Tap water is OK, but distilled water only costs about a dollar a gallon at any supermarket, so why not invest in it and not worry about any contaminants in your tap water???

What, a Harley that shook a part off at idle?? Unheard of...

When she had her Voyager kit, Aussie Annie has the perfect name for it, she called it a "Quike!!"

Stupid is as stupid does, I guess...

It seems to me that someone several years ago mentioned opening up the hole just a tad to let more oil through...

Hey, defecation occurs...

OK, the first thing to check is whether or not 12 volts is getting TO the switch!! Perhaps the best way is to see if You have 12 volts going to the 10 amp "Odometer" fuse. You should have 12 volts coming through your 30 amp main fuse. See schematic... http://www.venturerider.org/wiring/99-09%20Yamaha%20Royal%20Star%20Venture%20Simplified%20Circuit%20Diagram%20Rev%20B.pdf

There's a lot of $5.00 automotive fuel filters that will work! Fuel pumps on the 1st gen don't fail that often...

Somewhere on this site is a pretty good write up on how to clean the old one and make it good as new! I think Mike, EUSA1 wrote it... YUP!! Found it!! It's in the Read Only Tech Library... http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?111175-Ignition-Switch-Repair

The hard part is getting the switch out!! It is held on by two tamper proof bolts which are in reality Allen head bolts with the holes filled in after assembly, and the bolts are loctited in, so forget about grinding a slot in the bolt head and using a screwdriver, I busted the tips off of two Craftsman screwdrivers trying that! You have to grind the heads off, remove the switch, and then take vice grips to remove the studs...

If it is your ignition switch, which is, unfortunately, a common problem with the 2nd Gen, when you turn your key on the radio should still work as the accessory contacts are separate from the main contacts...

If everything is wired up correctly, then the next thing I would suspect is your TPS...

​HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jeff!!!