The story continues: (
http://ridersofvision.net/forum/xzindex.php?topic=4302.0)
Yesterday (July, 4th) I was finally able to find time to start on the Vision. The link above tells how I got to here, and since then the bike has been sitting in the garage, a victim of too little time. However, school is out, which means that it's fairly quiet at work, and I'm no longer doing some of the extra-curricular activities I normally do.
I started at the easy stuff, the seat came off, the side plastic along the seat rails, the lowers on the fairing, side panels covering the battery and the TCI. Then the tank came off. I noticed some of the fluid lines were getting a little worn, and they're on my list of things to replace. Pulled the top of the carb box off. The air-cleaner needs to be taken care of, but other than that, it looks good in there. Everything is moving like it's supposed to in the carbs (as near as I can tell from looking down them).
Went to pull the front spark plug, and found out that the person who had last did work on it had put the spark plug cap on rotated 180 degrees. It took me 30 minutes to get that thing off. I did get it off without breaking anything, and pulled the front spark plug. It has a nice tan coloring.
I started going around the air-box to take it off, and noticed a hose was off. It was right around where the vacuum line connects to the flapper system (remember this is an 83). Could it be that simple? Pulled down the manual. Nope, that's just the air line from the valve cover. It was not connected to the air-box, and when I looked at where it connects to the valve cover it had shattered there as well. It is original and needs to be replaced.
I didn't have any more time to work on the bike so I put the air-cleaner back on, lightly screwed the spark plugs back in, and turned out the lights. I don't have any answers yet, but I've started that first step of cleaning the bike up.
I'll be starting a web page about this with pictures some time soon. Another place to get lost at on the information super-highway.
Brian