Chaharly

Awesome! Thanks so much! @Wizard765 told me to get ahold of ya but i guess you got ahold of me lol just let me know what the plan is and i might be interested in buying some other spare parts if you have them that is Thanks! CJ

30+ dollars is simply too much, but i definitely need a road side vent. Anyone got one they'd be willing to part with? https://suncoastcyclesports.com/83-yamaha-venture-xvz1200-left-side-air-grill-vent-outlet-26h-2837v/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgpbq0-vv3gIVBZ7ACh39RwpVEAQYByABEgKJkPD_BwE

Maybe a passenger cb intercom?

I suppose no one got a profit-share check that quarter!

That looks really nice on there! How do you go about bending the plastic? Do you just heat it and bent it over a piece of wood or? Hope you're enjoying your georgeous new bike!

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Boy that IS SHARP! Whats kind of fuel mileage are you expecting on a rig like that?

My dad used to own an 87 Venture in the early nineties and said he took mom shopping with the trailer one day and loaded the trailer up with cases of pop. He said he ran out of gas on the way home and it just ate fuel. I dont know how much a trailer full of pop would weigh, probably more than a dirt bike, but having only a 5 gallon fuel capacity, you may not have much luck getting any real distance:confused24:

Bike will need carb work as it has sat several years Nothing wrong with the bike

I tried running Darkside and got the death wobble and totaled the bike. If you do go dark side just be absolutely sure to check your air pressures

Do i get to meet any of you varmints at Sturgis this year?

You got 6 gallons total so you have roughly 40 miles safely

Hey guys! I need to replace my ground cable as it gets corroded really badly after only a month or two. This last time i tried to take it off the battery to clean it it was rust welded to the negative post and i snapped the negative post almost clean off! How have you guys been upgrading your negative cables?

Hey guys! We've had family up here for the last week for the fourth which means lots of tearing it up on my, my brother's and my dad's bikes. I was following my brother in law on my dads 2003 GL1800 and he was on my brother's 89 GL1500 with about 98000 miles. I put the 1800 in 4th gear and rode up ever so casually beside him and he had the GL1500 in 4th as well. We pulled up beside eachother at 55mph and did a 4th gear race. Now mind you, I had myself which is 30lbs more than my brother in law, and my sister in law on the back of the GL1800. We both cracked the throttle and held them til we needed to shift to 5th and I have to say, we were absolutely neck and neck in 4th gear!!! That GL1500 never backed off until we were both at about 95 to a hundred and the 1800 only started to pull away in the higher RPMS. We pulled over and got to talking about how impressive it is that that 89 wing had literally the same amount of acceleration in the same gear at the same speed, and we started speculating the 1800 had longer gears etc. Well one test wasn't enough apparently... We were cruising around on the same bikes later in the day, except I was by myself and he pulls up and says "So do you think, without having Sara on the back, that race would turn out any different?" And I told him I thought it would make a big difference and the only way to tell is to try it again. So we did the same thing... 55mph in 4th gear and I have to tell you, those bikes were absolutely still neck and neck until he hit about 5krpms which was about 4750 on the 1800. What an absolutely impressive beast that old 89 GL is.. Its carbureted, has almost 100,000 miles and the only maintenance that's been done on it recently was new timing belts. We got talking about how underwhelming these new bikes are for the prices you pay for them and I do believe that if I was in 3rd I would have taken him, even if he was in 3rd. At 55mph in 4th gear the GL1800 was at 2750RPMS and the 1500 was at 3000RPMS. So the gears are a little longer in the 1800 and the 1800 also does redline 500RPMS later.. Just interesting stuff!!!

I had the red wire to my hazard switch go bad which caused me not to have turn signals. Check that out if you're still having problems

You are right sir, i was looking at the 1300 manual! Sorry about that!

According to the manual the minimum spec is 149psi and the mac is 199psi give or take. It seems compression is not the issue. Especially since all 4 cylinders are running about the same compression

I wonder if they maybe got their conversion wrong when making the switch from whatever the metric version of pounds per square inch. I'm at work so i don't have the time to convert the numbers or even look it up in the book until later

I guess it doesn't concern Yamaha or Ventures. Still interesting stuff however

I saw that on some of your pictures! Hows the bike running and how is that new job treating you?

27 of them? By a dealership? I find that hard to believe as dealerships make 100 an hour so they couldn't have screwed up! (Sarcasm alert) well I'm glad they at least got them on good enough that the wheel didn't become one of those automatic assault rifles shootin lead everywhere! They would probably be trying to ban it! That definitely makes me feel better about using 3 and 1/4 ounces thanks Puc and thanks for the YouTube video about balancing tires. You ought to charge for all those lessons! Now get out there and "clean them carbon deposits" on your girls. That oughta take care of that need for speed!

Don't the old school boys call that "blowin the cobwebs out"?? Plus i don't know how well the police are gonna like Luv doing 125 on that venture. Especially when they ask him why he was speeding and he replies with, "well sir, I'm Just cleaning out my carbon deposits"!! Kinda neat that your dads a cop, my old man's one too!

The MKIIs don't have the YICS box right?

And thank you @videoarizona for finding that!

Could running seafoam through the intake ports get rid of some of that carbonation? Or even pouring some down the intake side of the carbs.