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I have an 83 venture that I still can not get running correctly. Looking for ideas and things to check and how. If I come around corner and accelerate it may “pop” back once or twice and then kick in. Problem seems to gets worse as the bike gets hotter. But is sluggish and “pops” under acceleration then takes off. Notice the problems seem to drop off and the beast has new power at about 3100 RPM. IF you lower the rpms to around 2500 RPM it really loads up. To start it up I seem to have the best luck choking it and then moving the to the right to almost no choke and it will finally kick in. Idle is a little unsteady but not too bad. History 1. Cleaned the carbs a couple of times. Had slider and stuck float this week and there are both fixed. Idle screws are set at 2 turns out, Have also tried 1 ½ turns out. Tried smaller shims and bike run worse so reinstalled original shims in sliders. Rechecked the float levels. 3. Set the valves last year and several were too tight. 4. New plug wires and caps and plugs last year. 6. Have after market TCI using the stock program. about 1 ½ year ago NO MAPP sensor. Basically does the same things with the original TCI in place. 7. Sync;d carbs several times and again last night. Run about 6 inch at 1000RPM . 8. YICS was removed last year. 9. Gas mileage is under 30 MPG. 10. Have spark on all cylinders. 11. Every once in a while running down the road it will stumble but come right back. Thank in advance for the advice -
Noticed this morning that www.thedigitaloasis.com has the Garmin Zumo 660 at a sale price of $488.00 with free shipping to get it in time for Christmas. Which frustrated me as I just paid $525 for mine. No affiliation, just saw it as a good price. Brian
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I've been trying to talk with another member via PM's, and the past couple of day's PM's have disappeared - getting frustrated wasting time typing messages and having them disappear. Doug Nordin
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Hey everyone, OK, I bought a 1983 VR a few months ago. Love it! Runs great! Looks good. But it had a bit of an exhaust leak. I thought that it might be something with the rear manifold pipes running down to the h-pipe (or whatever its called.) So I went to e-bay and picked up the parts I needed. The only problem is, now that I've put them all back together, the leak is even worse. I don't know what to do now. I'm very frustrated. I've taken these things off and put them back on mulitiple times. I just don't know how to seal them any better. Should I use something like J-B weld? Or is there something else? I've looked over the forum but can't seem to find anything that will help. ~ Frustrated in Ohio -
I was changing my oil last night, getting ready for the fair weather rider's riding season. Since this was the first time I had done this myself (on my bike) I thought I might find a few quirks to sort out, but I have a big fat manual for the bike so I wasn't worried about it. But then when I went to reinstall the oil filter cover, the new O-ring, which had been stuffed into the box like a wadded up kleenex, wouldn't stay put long enough for me to tighten the bolt. Four or five tries at that and I was really frustrated. So I logged into the VR chat room and asked for suggestions. Someone jokingly suggested peanut butter. Then another suggested wheel bearing grease. There it is, I thought. A much better idea than the form-a-gasket goop I was considering, which might have resulted in an oil leak anyway. But at 11:30 at night when you are tired and have already spent 35 minutes on a 10 minute job and are frustrated an can't think straight, sometimes those brilliant ideas just won't come to you on their own. I forgot the names of the guys in the chat room, but if you happen to read this, thanks again. P.S. I also tried the idea of bearing grease on bread with grape jelly, but I now think that peanut butter is the better choice for that particular application.
