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Yes they will fit, only difference between Tour Deluxe (2005 to 2010) and Venture (1999 to 2013) is the extra tips they put on the Tour DeLuxe mufflers.

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What type of LED tail light does he have? If it is one of the ones that has a flat plate of LEDs that has 50 to 100 individual LEDs and mounts using the 3 screws that holds the lens on, I have had good luck repairing those. I would be happy to take a look at it if he wants to send it to me. Is it like this one? https://www.radiantz.com/V-Star-Road-Star-Retro-p/9011-10.htm

Praying for continued recovery, good to hear you are doing better.

Could be how the Chinese government is planning to take over the world, packing corona virus in the air bags that they know everyone will pop.

Why not use Grip Puppies or Shin Grips? I have Shin Grips on my GL and they very comfortable and inexpensive. Here is link, https://www.shop.shinhopples.com/product.sc?productId=1067&categoryId=-1

My 2013 stock grips measure 1.37" diameter (35.mm more or less) What you doing that you the OD of the grips?

Good to hear, thanks for the feed back.

I think you will find my pricing is better than EC.

Yes there is thermostat, you have to pull the fuel tank it is up near the radiator filler neck as I recall. It has been a while since I owned my Venture so I forget if it had a temp gauge or just an idiot light, you may want to describe the symptoms or indications you are getting that tells you it is overheating. I would get the radiator cap pressure tested or just get a new one, could be it is not holding pressure and letting the fluid boil due to low pressure. The water pump is driven off a gear driven shaft down on the lower right side, it is behind a small round cover. I cannot say I have ever heard of a water pump going bad, where it is not pumping, occasionally one of the seals goes bad and allows oil to get into the coolant system. You could pull the thermostat and put the housing back on with out the thermostat, leave the radiator cap off and start the motor to see if the pump is circulating the fluid. Possibilities are: Clogged radiator Bad/stuck thermostat Bad radiator cap Bad sensor, there are two that I know of, one to operate the fan on and off and then another to turn the over temp light light on. It is possible the sensor has gone bad giving an erroneous indication. As I recall there are trouble shooting guides in the service manual, which should be available in PDF format here, https://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?140302-RSV-and-RSTD-Service-Manuals Keep us posted on your findings and progress.

I have seen that a couple of the Daytona events, really good looking setup.

Here are the photos Jthomas sent me. Based on the heat shields I say those are BUBs slip-ons. Other than a few missing farkles, that looks just like my 2007 Venture I had.

Bubs were always the pipes everyone wanted, for the Venture they went two routes, a full system including header pipes and mufflers, they also offered just slip on mufflers. Every time I heard a Royal Star with set Bubs installed it sounded like a small block Chevy V8. They have a glass mat inside wrapped around the baffles, that glass mat tended to burn out over time and need to be replaced, when Bub was in business you could order a replacement kit from them and with a few hours work they were like brand new. The V-4 on the Royal Stars will never sound like a V-twin, I preferred the sound of the V-4 over that of the V-twins myself. I had a full set on my 98 Tour Classic and got a lot complements on how the bike sounded. Post some good detailed pictures of the mufflers and the header pipes and we should be able to tell you if you have the full package or just slip on mufflers.

Perfect, I love it when a plan come together.

Thanks

I am trying to reach Larry AKA Carbon One. There is a fellow rider in need of a trailer hitch, I do not have direct contact info for Larry, I have tried email through the forum, PM through the forum and also instant messenger through FB, but no reply yet. If anyone has a direct number to him, I would appreciate it, if you could give him a ring and let him know. Thanks

Here is a link to the tech section talking about the recommended service on the connectors in the fairing. Maybe it could help. https://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?62016-Audio-System-Tech-Bulletin-M2008-003

That is a very common trait of these motorcycles, all variations of the 4 cylinder Royal Stars from day one 1996 to end of production 2013 had the issue to varying degrees. The issue is the use of straight cut gears. they are much stronger than helical cut gears, but as they say "No good deed goes unpunished", the result is often a noisy gear train. Some have reported getting less noise or at least moving the noise to an RPM range that is less used, by changing the clutch basket, I forget which letter was claimed to be the best, but a quick search on here should net you many results with lots of opinions and anecdotal references. There is also a post here some place, where a member tapped into the port where I think the oil pressure sensor is with a line than went back into the crank case where the offending gears meshed, he reported the whine was significantly less with the oil flowing on them. Some have reported that changing oil type and /or viscosity range also helped the noise, by reducing it or changing the RPM range that created the worst noise. My 1998 Royal Star Tour Classic sounded like it had a blower on it it whined something awful at certain RPMs, then nothing at other RPMs. My Venture did not start whining until around 50,000 miles. I just noticed that you are in Orlando, I ride with a group of STAR riders out of Orlando, if you want to meet up one month for our ride, PM and I will get you the details.

This guy has some parts that folks have been looking for, take a look http://forums.delphiforums.com/royalstar/messages/10596/1 I have no information other than what you see in the post on Delphi, I have no connection to the fellow, please do not email or PM me about the parts.

If I need to send a copy of a document to someone and I am unsure if they have a compatible program to open it, I just print the document to PDF and send them a PDF copy. As long as all they need is to read or view the document it works well, I send all my schematic drawings that way, very few folks have AutoCad or Draftsight so they are not able to open .dwg files.

So I did get a response, and it was not what I had hoped for, there may be a performance issue if you graft 28mm carbs from the Royal Star on to the Venture motor that normally uses 32 mm carbs, what I was thinking about was guys that wanted to put the 32mm carbs on the Royal Star motors to increase the performance. The suggestion was to get a set of 32mm carbs from a Venture and maybe use individual pod filters in place of the air box.

As I recall over on the Delphi forums for Royal Stars and Royal Star Ventures a few folks have swapped out the original Royal motors for Venture motors, I am pretty certain what they did was to make an adapter plate that went between the Venture motor and the Royal Star carbs. That would require the help of a decent machine shop, but I doubt it would be very expensive, and surely a lot less trouble and effort than swapping heads. I will pop over to the Delphi forums and see if I can find any help on this.

Still here, still riding my Goldwing, tweeking it as I go with little mods here and there. Tried retirement, not sure I liked it , went back to work part time 20 hours a week, with a 4 day weekend every other week. Headed to Helen, GA next weekend.

I do not know why he left, but I did bump into him the other day on one of the Goldwing forums, he still has Tweety and also has a Goldwing, I forget what year , but it is an 1800. You can google Royal Star BatMan or Neutron Star both have VMax motors grafted into a Royal Star, will give you visual on what is involved with getting the exhaust headers out because of the frame and the heads.

I know the heads are different, the exhausts are ported out differently and to put VMAX heads on a Royal Star requires major frame modifications. Camshaft should be interchangeable but you would also need the VMAX springs so you do not float a valve, I am not sure about the rest of it. Some where on here there was a post about a fellow in England that did stuff a VMAX motor in s Royal Star and a former member was in the middle of doing just that before he opted out from the forum. Search for posts by Dingy you may find some of his old posts with photos of Sylvester and Tweety.