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Hi everyone, I have a 2010 venture that has a recurring issue. It has 95,000 miles on it, always been hyper vigilant about maintenance. I have replaced the water pump when it first started dumping coolant, it went away for a while. Then it started mixing oil and water, so my shop guys replaced the head gaskets which were pretty rough, also replaced all cooling lines, water plugs and flushed the system. All was good for a while, but now it is passing straight oil through the overflow. Any tech gurus out there with advice on how to proceed? And don't say "buy a new bike". This is the third Royal star I have owned, and the first time I have encountered this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It still runs great, has no power issues, starts right up, no hesitating, no outward engine issues, just leaving a small puddle of oil after running for about an hour or so, which is what my commute is. -
So this is my first bike ive ever owned and need a little help figuring out what my issue is. I have an 87 Venture and the last time I started it up a lot of oil started leaking from the area around the carburetor. It backfired a few times and a lot of smoke was coming from the muffler and a little under the bike. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know its a pretty vague description of the problem, so I'm sorry about that. Just need a little guidance.
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last fall I had some work done, including replacing a valve cover gasket; the very next ride I stopped at a rest area and saw all kinds of oil on the ground. It was coming out of the head gasket at the left front of the engine. As far as I can tell, oil is clean; coolant is clean, so it is just leaking to the exterior. My question is whether there is anything the wrench could have done to cause the head gasket to leak--like re-torquing the bolts, or whatever. Since I don't know enough about it, I'm hesitant to bring the bike back to the same guy. Ken in Port Huron
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I have a 1986 Venture that I purchased last fall. About two weeks after purchasing the bike I pulled a boneheaded mistake by driving off of what I thought was about a 5" curb (that turned out to be more like 8" tall) at a very slow rate of speed and basically dropped the lower crankcase ontop of the concrete curb. I noticed a pretty significant oil leak under the bike when I got home. At first I thought I had cracked the oil filter cover but after hauling it to the local Yamaha dealer to have it checked out it turns out that the crankcase itself was "bent". They gave me two options...turn it in to insurance as totaled (I don't have full coverage) or "JB weld" the oil cover on semi permanently until the next oil change at 10 or 12,000 miles. The "JB weld" idea worked pretty good last fall with just a few minor drips but this spring it seems to be getting much worse. Any suggestions on what else I can try?
