Chaharly

Morning Yall! Another lovely day at work! Going to be too cold for riding for the next couple weeks. We'll see if we get a warm streak! In Omaha at least!

I second Cimmer on the progressive springs. I replaced the horns. Instead of running an FM bluetooth adapter, I gutted the cassette player, wired in bluetooth directly to the inputs on the cassette player and wired an on-off switch to play the bluetooth over the radio. In the spot of the old cassette player, I bought an abs plastic sheet, screwed it into place where the cassette player used to go. I mounted my on-off switch for the bluetooth and mounted it on the sheet, mounted the bluetooth adapter, and mounted a three way switch for my aftermarket heated grips. You'll find you'll want to ride in the winter more with a full fairing bike, and the heated grips make a WORLD of difference! The rest of the bike is pretty much stock. One mod you may want to do if you're only getting mid 30s to 37 on the highway is to drop the emulsion needles on the slides further into the carbs. It leans the mixture and you'll pull 40s doing 65 all day with no wind

I've got a first gen, so I cant tell you exactly what needs to be removed on the 2nd gen to get them off. There will be 2 throttle cables, 4 vent tubes, the fuel line, and the choke cable, I know that much. To get that stripped screw out, i'd simply destroy the clamp and buy a new one, you're just gonna fight it for as long as you own the bike if you dont. You'll have better luck posting the 2nd gen venture tech page, and also look at the technical write ups. I'm sure theres something on there

I promise you're gonna love the machine when its all running right. There's a reason I still use my 88 as my main touring bike. There's really none better

You didn't happen to change the pilot jets while you had the carbs apart? I replaced mine with ebay ones and have been having similar issues ever since. I can get a consistent idle now, but I'm adjusting the screws out like 4 turns to achieve it.

Very cool Cub Cadet youtube video

I loved my second gen! RIP to that one!

This is just a chitchat thread right?? Me and the lady went and tested a 2018 6-speed Goldwing. The 88 Venture has over 100k miles now, and I plan to put another 5 or 6 year in her as my main touring bike, but when it comes time to upgrade, we've decided on the Wing. In case you were wondering how it compared to the Venture. Wind protection was similar on the two, we road on a day with 40 mph wind gusts and felt that the protection was really similar. The Goldwing may have been a touch louder, because of the split windshield design. But I really enjoyed the electric windshield. Suspension. The Venture has also been the smoothest bike for riding hands down, at least in my opinion. The new Goldwing handled the same bumps phenomenally and I was very impressed with the suspension. Kind of neat watching that new suspension bouncing up and down. The Goldwing suspension did suffer on a VERY rough off ramp where the joints in the road are separated out pretty good. The Venture suffers too, but not quite as bad. Overall, I was very impressed with the Goldwing's suspension. Power. The Goldwing had great low-end torque that would snap your head back. That being said, 6th gear at 75mph on the Goldwing at wide open throttle vs the venture is comparable, or the venture is even a little snappier. That being said the 6th gear on the wing is a true highway overdrive, the venture is spooled up pretty high, so you're further into the power band. Wide open throttle from a stop has the Goldwing shooting up the speed much faster than the Venture, but once the Venture starts to stretch her legs the gap closes a little bit. I would say all in all the Goldwing is a little faster than the Venture (but the venture has no governor which the Wing does) Handling. The Goldwing is less top heavy than the venture, but sitting still, I felt the front wheel weight to be the same. I honestly didn't feel much difference between the two bikes, but I'm really used to the venture by this point. I cant say whether one or the other is better on turns, as we don't really have too many twisties too close to Omaha. Electronics. Goldwing wins hands down, the speakers on the bike are better, and you've got the TFT screen, etc. I'm not impressed with rider modes, but the Wing has them. I've got Bluetooth on the Venture. The big difference is that the Wing won't let you plug your helmet in, you have to have Bluetooth headsets, which to me isn't an improvement. I'd rather not screw with batteries, but we'll get used to it. Comfort. Can't really compare the two because we only got to ride for a little over half an hour. Initially felt as comfortable as the venture. The 6th gen gold wings are MUCH more comfortable than the 5th gen for me. I felt super cramped on the last gen wings and could get pretty miserable riding them long distances. The motor must be narrower and i could put my feet on the pegs much more comfortably than the 5th gen. Storage. Much less than the Venture, but not a huge issue for me. The newest iteration has a bigger trunk than the 2018s. Overall, I was very impressed with the wing. The throttle felt good, and the clutch felt really nice. To me, the driving experience of the power train is very similar to the 5th gen, just a little more refined and it has an actual overdrive gear. I still can't get over the fact that the riding experience of these newer bikes doesn't eclipse the first gen Venture like you'd think they would. If these bikes weren't getting older and older and older, I'd probably continue riding first gen Ventures, but I think in the next 5 or 6 years, we'll be ready for a change.

I've had the stator covers off a couple times in the last year, and the stator supports the shift shaft. Looking from your pictures, It looks to me like a clear break in your stator cover. These bikes weren't made for heel toe shifters, and I think it puts a great deal of stress on that aluminum to use them. If you can find the parts cheap enough on ebay I'd go ahead and replace your heel toe shifter and floorboard for a set of pegs. Stator can be a bit of a tricky job, make sure to clean all the surfaces really well and put a healthy amount of sealant on the back side of the wire grommets that run through the case. You'll need a middle gear cover gasket and a stator cover gasket to replace. Check out your stator while you have it off. You can find really cheap aftermarket stators on amazon. I paid like 50 bucks for an Amazon one and it lasted me 4 or 5 years, roughly 50 thousand miles. Welcome to the forum by the way! We're a little less active than we used to be, but the wealth of knowledge and parts and service info you can find here are well worth every penny! Hope you stick around!!

Shaft is probably fine, looks like you need a new stator cover.

Congrats! It sounds like you have the things figured out! I dont blame you for not being excited to play in the snow after all that time.

Very Sharp! I know you'll love the new M8 motor on that thing!

Congratulations on the brand new bike! Sheesh only 200 miles on that thing! lol I recently hit the same milestone coming back to Nebraska during our trip to Olympic National Park! She's got just shy of 102k miles!

You have a little room to play with the fluid height at the top of the fork. I ran about 4 3/4" inch of fluid from the top seems to ride really nice with that setup