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No'mo Rocket 4 me
Yeah how much did they offer you on trade in?
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RocketmanBristol
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No'mo Rocket 4 me
Wow is this the same Sonny that was so high on his big power Rocket after doing all his homework? Seems a little sudden.Keep the X and add the Yamaha.
Yeah. Try a Decosse by-pass. 300$ might just fix everything. Change the expensive adaptives for the cheapoes. That black bike was looking and running good. The Venture is such a whole different thing... I don't tour. It is not my thing. Would only consider a Valkyrie Bagger in that category. Like the Indians but they are off my bike budget.
1BigDog
Gone to the Dogs!
Electrical gremlins are the worst to deal with. My 99 Venture was a case in point. At about the 60k mark I started having all sorts of charging issues as well as switch failures. I would track one thing down and fix it and another would pop up. After a while I just put the bike up on the lift, stripped it down and went through just about every electrical connector I could find. I checked and cleaned them then used dielectric grease on all connectors. I also did a stator upgrade which helped with the weak charging system that the Ventures had. I tried dismantling some switches but they never worked right so me and Pinwall became good friends and I picked up some lower mileage switches from them. Took a while but it all came together. Yep, electrical problems suck......just got to be patient with it.
Nat67
Rockgoblin
An electrical fault I believe? Have the Amber spanner and Electrical fault lights illuminated and the engine just decides to stop at the most awkward times . 10 mins later will start and run fine til it does it again . code reader brings up no engine faults but a fault in the ECM circuit but can narrow it down no further than that . Bloody thing , it just cost me £1500 for 2 new injectors . If I didn't like it so much , it would probably have accidently caught fire by now !
Anyhow , have you changed your mind yet @sonny ? I think you should buy 2 more rockets , then at least 1 would generally be without fault ?
Dawg68
Nitrous
To date I have a 14 roadster and a 17 Touring that I ride daily, I’ve a total of 90,000km between the two and knock on wood I wouldn’t hesitate taking either of them anywhere. I commute daily on the touring and love it to bits...Am i the only one that never had a real problem with the rocket??
The one i sold was and still is so reliable that i would not hesitate to ride it across America, the X i can ride across the world
Good luck Sunny.
TXtriple
SIC VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM
Navigator
Living Legend
No Lupe, my 2007 Classic is still running strong with no issuesAm i the only one that never had a real problem with the rocket??
The one i sold was and still is so reliable that i would not hesitate to ride it across America, the X i can ride across the world
Good luck Sonny, whatever you decide to buy im sure you will be happy.
Jallen3.14
Turbocharged
2005 and the only thing done by myself and the PO are: speedometer, starter relay, and oil tank o-rings.
barbagris
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Nat - Just in case it works . Run an additional BIT FAT EARTH from the Battery to the Engine.An electrical fault I believe? Have the Amber spanner and Electrical fault lights illuminated and the engine just decides to stop at the most awkward times . 10 mins later will start and run fine til it does it again . code reader brings up no engine faults but a fault in the ECM circuit but can narrow it down no further than that . Bloody thing , it just cost me £1500 for 2 new injectors . If I didn't like it so much , it would probably have accidently caught fire by now !
Anyhow , have you changed your mind yet @sonny ? I think you should buy 2 more rockets , then at least 1 would generally be without fault ?
I was chatting with my neighbour who's a mechanic last week. He suddenly mentioned they'd seen a whole run of similar issues - and many have turned out to be a deterioration of Earth connection twixt engine and chassis. This happened on my Landie too.
