Riders Of Vision

Good so far. Spent time Friday and Saturday 'fixing' the CD player in my truck. FWIW the CD player is today's 8-track. Anyway I had to remove the trim from the console to get the dash panel surrounding the player off. Then I had to visit the island of misfit tools to find a 7mm wrench to get the screws holding the player in place. Finally got it out and got the top off, 2 torx screws and a multitude of tabs and slots. And, there's nothing wrong with it. I thought it had a disk stuck in it but nope, I guess the mechanism that admits the disk was just sticking a little. Put it back together and it's working fine. Set the time to EST and we're good to go.

starter motor?

An update on my progress, I decided the head had to come off but I found it very difficult to get the head to clear the studs so I removed the engine bolts, with a car jack under the sump, and eased the engine about a half an inch forward, this made it possible to remove the head. On inspection the buckets that hold the shims were very tight on the exhaust cam, so I super glued long 6mm bolts in the centre allowed to set (overnight) mounted a raised steel bar above them and wound them out. I left the bolts attached and used them to attach a drill and with fine grinding paste gradually seated them back in position. when I was happy they were moving freely I reground the valves and reassembled. So all seems good now and I now have compression back.
 I have never had this bike running, so the next step is to see if she will run. Dave.     

Dave, I have the Yamaha factory service manual. The link George provided is excellent, lots of good stuff there.

Thanks walt, yes I do have a haynes manual, but I didn't think it would be in there, so I didn't look. which manual do you have? Dave.