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Right with ya there about runnin them in each gear at the same time just to see what the difference truly is! But youve really got me craving those South Dakota prairies! The 26th can't come soon enough. Its real easy to change the back wheel with the bags on. Put the bike on the center stand and use a ratchet strap to fasten it forward to the crash bar. Make sure youre on fairly solid ground. Remove front brake calipers and front axle nut. This next part helps to have someone slide something under the motor when you remove the axle bolt and wheel but if youre quick you can do it by yourself by holding it up with your shoulder. Then very gently set the bike on the front forks, preferably with something soft in between them, remove the left muffler and viola! Easy peasy everything is right there way up in the air to work with!

My clutch lever was actually wore out. The little ball in it was very visibly worn. I think I have a picture

With the bike running check the voltage drop from the 5 wire (4 wire plug on some bikes) to the battery. There are 2 black and to red wires and probably one brown wire coming out of this plug. Set your multimeter to the 20V DC setting and insert one probe into the plug on one of the red wires. Then put the other probe on the positive lead to the battery. If you've got anything like .5 v showing up then you're losing a half a volt in just that one wire. Repeat this process with the other red wire, and then do the same with the black wire, but to the ground post instead. Same thing, you're looking for a voltage drop. I would say like .1 to .2 volts is acceptable. This will at least eliminate the harness and connections to the battery being the problem. I would definitely do this before buying a regulator.

That is a neat looking critter! I bet he musta been lovin the warm road. Nice to see you had the MK2 out! I've been thinking about trying to relocate to AZ so I could ride all year. Take care bud!

Oh and @cowpuc. I would LOVE to run the 83 and 88 balls to the wall, side by side for awhile!

You'd be surprised at how easy changing the rear tire on a MK2 is. Don't need to remove the bags or anything. I was gonna tell ya LUV that the pictures on the CL post are 2 different bikes. Notice the paint scheme is different. IMHO I think you're going to love the Radio, and especially the Cruise Control. I think the seats on the MK1s are more comfortable, but I've put tons of miles on the stock seat on my MK2. Its nice to have basically the same motor as the RSV so you know there will be parts for years to come. Really, really look the bike over, but I tell ya what I certainly don't miss my 83 Standard with nothing on it. I'd take my 88 Royale any day of the week. (PS We'd have twin bikes. Same color!)

Thats great! I cant get over the windshield bag stuffed full of carrots!

Hit the old 88 Venture with the wide open throttle a few times, climbed some hills and pushed a heavy wind.... Still got 40.1 mpg

Took a lady friend for a ride Tuesday down into the Loess Hills in Iowa. Put about 200 miles on and ate at the japanese steak and sushi house! Had a great ride. My dad and I are each taking one of my late brother's sons on a 3 day motorcycle camping trip the 26th through 30th this month as well. Getting real excited to get them boys out of the house!

Alright thanks for the replies guys. Heres a couple of pics where it was mounted. I don't understand why the pics flipped like that.... but you can see where I had it mounted was not a good spot. I tried to use one of the original mounting holes from the original RR but I'm not on the frame very well and I'm pushed right up against the exhaust. With the Stator checking out and the wiring harnesses checking out, I'm pretty much to the point where its gotta be this voltage regulator. I work 12 hour days on the weekends but Monday I'm gonna move It over and test ride it, but unfortunately its only gonna be 50 Monday

Ive been getting conflicting answers as to if the regulator needs to mounted to the frame or not. What I'm reading says the ground comes from the two black wires. I'm not running anything much extra off the electrical system except my new grip warmers occasionally and i do suspect heat will be higher from an HO Stator. I'm kind of grasping at straws here now though. The stator checks out fine. The regulator acts fine when its cold. Drops to around 13.5-13.8 at idle and only goes up to 14.5 when revved. I'm getting no significant voltage loss to the battery but when i would take it out and ride it after a few miles you could watch the voltage gauge slowly drop from 14.5 to around 13. It would go to about 12.9 at idle and slowly crawl up to 13.8 ish when revved. So really i have no clue what could be causing this And thursday was the first day it happened. It was about 90, so a good 10 degrees warmer than it had been every other time I've taken it out and I've put about 600 miles on with the new equipment with rock solid voltage until Thursday

Alright i think i figured it out. Where i had the regulator mounted it was sitting right up against the muffler. I thought it was a good spot but didn't realize the muffler goes there:bang head: So I'm gonna go ahead and assume that's the problem. Do you guys think this regulator is trustworthy now that its been over heated like that?

Yeah i was up in the 30s after snippung the wires and almost up to 60 at 2000 RPM

I did have it connected to the regulator. I'll go home at lunch and retry it quick

Ok this is where I'm at now. I checked AC voltage across the three stator wires in every combination and was getting 11.8 to 11.9 on all three wires over and over. I checked the resistance and had .3 ohm on each wire combo, and am not grounding through the wires as far as i can tell. I hardwired the stator to the R&R but wired in the plug for where the two positives and negatives connect to the bike. That plug and the wire around it gets pretty hot so I'm going to eliminate that plug tonight after work and see if that makes a noticeable difference in temp. Also i thought i had gotten Ricks Stator AND RR up grade but the regulator is this one from Boss Bearing. I believe the actual regulator is an Arrowhead. I'm thinking of buying Ricks RR now and I'm wondering if this regulator is worth a crap

Thanks Freebird! From reading it i think he was experiencing a short to ground where I am not, though believe me i will go over all the wires.

I know she's getting real hot while I'm riding it but i will check it again at idle I'm the garage. I got a good box fan I'll throw on it

Its the high output stator from Ricks motorsports. The regulator is as well. I think i may have gotten rid of the old regulator

That one on the left looks pretty good really

Also the r&r itself was very hot. But it's located pretty close to the exhaust

Hey guys, so over the winter I installed Ricks stator and R&R upgrades. Put about 600 miles on since then and everything was going fine until today when I got about 5 miles out of town I noticed my voltage dropped. I turned around on on the way back it went back up to normal, right above the line. A few miles later it was back down again. I parked it in the garage and when I put the voltmeter on it was getting about 12.8 V. I felt the wires green and red wires that plug into the red and black and they were extremely hot down to the R&R. I let the bike cool for awhile and when I came out and started it agian the bike was charging as usual. I took it about 5 miles down the road again and yeah, same symptoms. The wires to it feel really hot. I put the R&R close to where it originally was but do I need to sand all the paint off that area? Any tips at all would be appreciated since I'm supposed to be taking the nephews with my dad on a campling trip on the 26th. Please Help!!!!

Things will settle down and you'll be able to put everything in your head in the right order. Each day will pass by a little smoother than the last, just be sure to let yourself feel all of your emotions. And @Condor ... i am SO sorry to hear that. Like puc said that's painful to even read. You're a strong dude, and in dark times i hope i can think about strong people that got through them like you

The original rocket 3s are tons of fun. Unfortunately, they had bad trannys in them until 08. Dad picked up one from Washington with a bad tranny and only 10k miles. Hope they don't have any issues like that any more

I don't know why I never got back to you on this but I know that exact spot in the badlands your talking about! And youre talking about Sundance, I believe. That little town on the interstate. I'm going to have to try that route. Me and dad are taking my nephews (passed brother's sons) out on a camping trip to the hills in about 2 weeks and I know dad wont do the gravel, but maybe I'll take one of the boys. I think they'd really like going off the beaten path! Superman never asked no police for permission. He should be thankful you were so kind!

I've never used nor know anyone who's ever used it. But my suggestion is to keep your RSV. You'll find yourself missing the fairing and radio and all your dudads.