Dealership with great parts prices.

[lonestarmedic]

Would like to pass this along for my fellow V4 fanatics. Cross posting this message from the other site I belong to:

As you may have read by now, I have been rebuilding my carburetors and doing a lot of maintenance on the 1986 Venture. I would like to pass on a place I found with great pricing. Now you will possibly need to wait until they get stuff in. I do not know how deep their inventory is. But, I priced valve shims at $10 and a bit of change. Everyone els wants $15-$18!! Footrest pads are about $24 each everyone else has been Over $30. I have no problem going to my local dealer and purchasing and paying the prices for something in stock that I need. But these folks can order right where they do and get them onto my front porch. Also, the shipping for these items was only $11.00 USPS priority/ All little grommets etc. Their shipping charges are not inflated sky-High.

STADIUM YAMAHA
IRVING TEXAS

Not affiliated in any way, shape, or form. But do the math. I saved $8.00 per valve shim times 12 shims needed. That is a mere $96.00 on one item. I just placed another order, and will report on how long it takes to get 12 line items shipped complete to my porch. And how well they did.

J.B.

 

[Fire-medic]

Jeez, your bike needed 12 out of 16 shims? Usually you can swap them around and don't have to buy but 2 or 3, if that.

I heard bikes w/Cobra exhausts will use more shims, and especially if you switched to the Fish downdraft carb Performance System. :rofl_200:

Thanks for the resource. I just checked Ron Ayres, who usually gives me good, fast service, and it looks like their prices went up a bit.

Would like to pass this along for my fellow V4 fanatics. Cross posting this message from the other site I belong to:

As you may have read by now, I have been rebuilding my carburetors and doing a lot of maintenance on the 1986 Venture. I would like to pass on a place I found with great pricing. Now you will possibly need to wait until they get stuff in. I do not know how deep their inventory is. But, I priced valve shims at $10 and a bit of change. Everyone els wants $15-$18!! Footrest pads are about $24 each everyone else has been Over $30. I have no problem going to my local dealer and purchasing and paying the prices for something in stock that I need. But these folks can order right where they do and get them onto my front porch. Also, the shipping for these items was only $11.00 USPS priority/ All little grommets etc. Their shipping charges are not inflated sky-High.

STADIUM YAMAHA
IRVING TEXAS

Not affiliated in any way, shape, or form. But do the math. I saved $8.00 per valve shim times 12 shims needed. That is a mere $96.00 on one item. I just placed another order, and will report on how long it takes to get 12 line items shipped complete to my porch. And how well they did.

J.B.

 

[lonestarmedic]

My Venture was made on 270 day. I kid you not it had 12 of those. The others were 268. I needed 11 of 265. One of 268, two of 262, and had a couple good ones.

 

[dannymax]

Would like to pass this along for my fellow V4 fanatics. Cross posting this message from the other site I belong to:

As you may have read by now, I have been rebuilding my carburetors and doing a lot of maintenance on the 1986 Venture. I would like to pass on a place I found with great pricing. Now you will possibly need to wait until they get stuff in. I do not know how deep their inventory is. But, I priced valve shims at $10 and a bit of change. Everyone els wants $15-$18!! Footrest pads are about $24 each everyone else has been Over $30. I have no problem going to my local dealer and purchasing and paying the prices for something in stock that I need. But these folks can order right where they do and get them onto my front porch. Also, the shipping for these items was only $11.00 USPS priority/ All little grommets etc. Their shipping charges are not inflated sky-High.

STADIUM YAMAHA
IRVING TEXAS

Not affiliated in any way, shape, or form. But do the math. I saved $8.00 per valve shim times 12 shims needed. That is a mere $96.00 on one item. I just placed another order, and will report on how long it takes to get 12 line items shipped complete to my porch. And how well they did.

J.B.

Stadium is a good outfit to deal with, bought quite a bit of stuff from them.

Jeez, your bike needed 12 out of 16 shims? Usually you can swap them around and don't have to buy but 2 or 3, if that.

I heard bikes w/Cobra exhausts will use more shims, and especially if you switched to the Fish downdraft carb Performance System. :rofl_200:

Thanks for the resource. I just checked Ron Ayres, who usually gives me good, fast service, and it looks like their prices went up a bit.

I decided to do the 25K mi. check on my '85 XJ700X 5 valve a little early at 16K and it needed 20 out of 20 shims! No one on the XJ forum ever heard of that before.....and I could use only one or two existing shims, had to buy all the rest.

 

[sdt354]

Mr Cycle gives great deals. Call and talk to Brad. Tell him you want the vmax forum discount. He'll save you $$. http://www.mrcycles.com/oemparts/c/yamaha/parts

Boat.net is good too. Sometimes different years give different prices for parts that are the same for some reason. http://www.boats.net/parts/search/Yamaha/Motorcycle/parts.html