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These look like fun.

The company that was doing this mod and exchange was Blue Ridge Mountain Sport Max, it was owned and operated by John Furbur. I am not sure if John is still in the business of modifying and exchanging Royal Star final drives or not his website appears to be gone, but , but he does have a Facebook presence and I understand you can email him directly at john@rmsportmax, he may still be doing the mods and swaps. Hope this helps, Good luck.

I like Prarie Dogs, They taste like chicken

I found this on Craigslist, looks to be very nice and well kept. https://orlando.craigslist.org/mcy/d/yamaha-royal-star/6697569033.html

Prayers up from Florida.

Yes, a wise old electrician I worked with many years ago gave me some very good advice, "They all look good from the other side of the street." Sage advice to be sure.

Thanks all, I actually did put a clear coat on it, so we will just see how it goes, hope to get her out this weekend for a bit of riding and the Daytona Biketoberfest activities.

My lower cowl was starting to look pretty sad, so I decided to give it a rattle can paint job and changed the color to black to match the lower portion of the bike. What do you think. I have a spare in the factory OEM color, so I can swap back if I decode I do not like the black or the paint does not hold up to road abuse. Not the best pictures but the change should be obvious. Thanks

Becareful using Slime or Ride-On in tires equiped with Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) not all TPMS are compatible with punture sealing additives.

Yeah sort of what I expect also, but I figured I got some left over what can it hurt.

Yes SIME sells products for motorcycles and trailers, in fact that is what I settled on, it is a bit less expensive than Ride-On and more readily, picked some up at WallyWorld, did both tires on the trailer with the dosage recommended by Slime and had enough left over to do my wheel Barrow tire that never holds air, will be interested to see how well it works. Both Slime and Ride-On claim their product improves the balancing of the tires. I have not had a chance to try it out yet, so I can not comment on that.

If the left side and the rear bolt are still tight, loosen those before you try to install the right side one, you need the "slop" in the set up to get all of them aligned and started before tightening any of the three. If you still cannot get it to start, you may need to remove the tank to get clear access to the hole so you can try threading the bolt in to be sure the threads in the frame are still OK.

Good looking bike, congrats. Slow speed maneuvers remember to trail brake with the foot pedal, clutch control and throttle control, watch some ride like a pro videos and practice. The bike can do it, she does not like it very much.

I can believe that, some times it is tricky looking a picture and trying to match up the details to be sure you get the right one, I have been lucky so far with my suppliers, hope they have the sub harness in stock and can ship soon so I can get a look at it. I hope Yamaha did not pull trick like BMW and Harley where they contracted with Amphenol to get proprietary connectors that you can only get if you are a licensed shop, but does not sound like it if EC was able to procure them.

When I looked at Buckfan's bike it became very obvious that there was no one master joint for the fender harness like on the Royal Stars, Ventures and other Star bikes from Yamaha and with out having a wiring schematic at the time we were just shooting in the dark disconnecting plugs to see what did not work. A few days later I found the schematics here on the forum and confirmed that yes three different locations needed to be tapped into. Much will depend on the availability of the connectors as to whether I can build a complete system or will I need to order their sub harness and add the isolation system. I have a sub harness on order so I can get firsthand knowledge of the connectors. From what I could see on the schematic and looking at the photos on ECs site, there is one connector for each saddle bag for the turn signals and one under the seat for tail and brake. I will keep everyone posted on my progress.

Good looking bike, glad to hear you are well enough to ride. I hope the first addition is a set of deer whistles to keep those varmints away from the road when you are riding. https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Automotive-22-1-01001-8-Chrome-Warning/dp/B000IG5PVU/ref=sr_1_5/135-6771224-5652728?ie=UTF8&qid=1538098920&sr=8-5&keywords=deer+whistle

Same thing happened to me yesterday using my old desktop running Windows 10 and IE, switched over to Microsoft EDGE on same computer and it all worked on EDGE. Must be the old desktop, because I just checked on my laptop and IE and it is all good. Who Knows with all this new technology.

I think my friend Dion was referring to me in his post, and I am already thinking about it. Buckfann was kind enough to let me poke around his bike a month or so ago looking for the connectors needed, but we just did not dig deep enough. I am sure I could even buy the subharness from EC and add the Isolator (4 or 5 wire) and sell it for less than what they are selling a complete system for and it would be easier to install. I may just reverse engineer the subharness, that is what EC did to me years ago. I presented a sample of my Royal Star subharmess to Bushtec at one of the rallies in Daytona, hoping to get some sales , but they turned the unit over to EC and about a month later EC was offering the same subharness on their site. So we will see.

Try going to this DELPHI forum, I am pretty sure some folks over there have done this swap, you may get some additional help or hints. http://forums.delphiforums.com/vrider

In this context RTE = Ride To Eat, we are after all an eating club with a riding disorder are we not?

Does anyone put any of the various puncture sealants in their trailer tires? Was reading a post on another forum about using Ride-On in motorcycle tires and although not generally recommended for bikes with TPMS it got me wondering if it would be worth putting it in my Bushtec trailer tires. I contacted Ride-On and they recommended using 6 to 8 ounces of their formula for Mopeds and scooters in a tube type tire on the trailer. Anyone with thoughts or experiences on using this product or any of the many others on the market in your trailer?

That is a good place to go group I ride with went there last month, I would go again, but I am committed to a ride with that same group out of Orlando, we are headed to Goodrich's in Oak Hill. Anyone want to tag along with us from Orlando to Oak Hill, just PM me for details. There is a forum for posting RTEs, check it out here, https://www.venturerider.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?19-Meet-n-Eats but the here in the Watering Hole should work also. Have you invited the Prowlers from the Goldwing forum also? Welcome to the board.

Just changed the tail lights on my Bushtec Roadstar to LEDs, I used some form Superbrightleds and they are great. Here is a link to what I used, https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/tail-brake-turn/1157-can-bus-led-bulb-dual-function-26-smd-led-tower-bay15d-retrofit-car/1166/ These are currently on clearance for $9.88 each. These are oversized and are the longest you will be able to fit in the Harley light fixture that Bushtec uses, in fact at first I thought I screwed up because the end of the bulb seemed to be touching the inside of the lens cover, but with a bit of patience I was able t get it to all go together.

They attach to the front crash bars with a special clamp. here are some pics from my long gone 07 Venture.

So here is my story from a long time ago, had a Datsun B210 hatchback, I monkeyed with the air cleaner so much I managed to strip out most of the threads where the stud went that held the air filter in place. Being young and stupid, I just took some all thread rod (probably not the right thread as metric all thread was scarce back in the day) and threaded it into the mount hole in the carb, secured it with a nut and lock washer, good to go, stayed like that for a number of years. One morning after my commute from work the night before, the car ran terrible, like it was running on 3 cylinders. Well it was, I pulled the air cleaner and found the rod out of the hole in the carb, the nut was in place, but the lock washer was gone, pulled head and found the lock washer neatly trapped under both the intake and exhaust valves, what are the chances? Like above the top of the piston and inside the head were all dinged up. Fixed it and she ran like a top for many thousands of miles after that. Sorry did not mean to hijack the thread, but I had not thought about that adventure in a long time.