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  1. Flyinfool
    I am about an hours ride away from him if no one closer chimes in. Is this a member on here? I have not wired a Hoppy or a 2nd gen but it should not be hard to figure out how to hook it up once I know the colors for a 2nd gen. Even then I can figure out the colors with my tester.
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    I think I would start with a call to Hopkins. If the part does not match the instructions, you may have the wrong part. So far, in several places, you have listed 5 wires on the bike side of the converter, the Hopkins-46255 should have 6 wires on the bike side and 4 on the trailer side. Some low life may have switched packaging to get "a better deal" on their converter.
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    Engineers

    Flyinfool replied to Gary N.'s topic in Watering Hole

    No wonder I like being a mechanical engineer (spent 18 years working for a military contractor) and never really had an interest in civil engineering.
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    Even here in Wisconsin we are getting the fringe of Sandy. Wavers on lake Michigan are expected to reach 35 feet today. They are evacuating some of the communities that are right on the lake. I can not imagine what you people out east are going thru.
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    Ummmmmmm????????????
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    I sure wish the trees around here would have made a crop this year. Its goona be slim picking for a lot of the wildlife over the winter. We had the early warmup and the trees started to bloom early and then there was a freeze that wiped out most of the crop from most kinds of trees. Some of the orchards had a total loss. The oaks and other mast producers did not fare well either.
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    Many places that sell batteries will test it for free. Here in the states I use Autozone. To test you need to be able to put a load similar to what the starter draws. You could do a poor mans test with your multimeter. First, disable the ignition or turn off the fuel and run the carbs dry. Connect the multi meter across the battery. Crank the engine, the voltage should stay above 9V while cranking.
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    You mean they are talking about that little fall shower halfway round the world?
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    Keep posting about whatever aspect of LD riding you feel is appropriate. Who knows, some day I may break the 450 miles in 24 hours barrier........
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    There are 2 ends to every wire. Take apart and clean the connections for both ends of each of the battery wires.
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    I hope it is still on the deck once Sandy leaves........ Hang on tight out there
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    It could be a dangerous time to use that 4 letter SNOW word around Big Tom, with his change of lifestyle and all.......
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    Go for it. We will all harass.......I mean help out as much as possible.
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    Congratulations May there be many more.
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    I haven't had either of my Bad Boys go bad, yet, but this is good info to be stored back in the cobwebs of my poor little brain.
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    I use the salt/no salt criteria also. If I were to ride in the salt then I would be forced into washing the bike or watching it dissolve away, that is normally sometime in Dec to sometime in April, but can be as bad as Sept till May, or like last year, just Feb . Temperature is irrelevant.
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    And the second step is to leave work right now and go take that woman for the ride she deserves.
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    I sure hope I never get that old........
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    My first thoughts are that it will be pretty heavy. I have no idea how much weight can be carved out of the inside in the form of bulkheads and mounts. As far as using it as a trailer, I wonder just how much useable room there would be inside of it. I do not think that the trailer it is on is included since the add says hull and body only. are the seat, handle bars and hatches available to fill the holes and make it look right? I think it is a cool idea if you can make it work. I like the snowmobile idea too.
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    I am hoping that since we have heard no more in the last 6 hours that all is well.
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    Big difference. This time it was all in fun and being helpful. The thread you are referring to was a person that was not trying to help but was attacking this site and he got what he had coming. I did not read anything in this thread that looked to me as anyone being "jumped on". just my
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    I tried to put a lock nut on backwards once on purpose, your right, it is not easy to do.
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    Nice But most of the trees here are nekid already.
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    Look here for some good writeups. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=86 You only need to ask once on this forum, we'll find the question... And then we only have to type an answer once...
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    Look here for some good writeups. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=86 You only need to ask once on this forum, we'll find the question... That is because we have so much time to sit and ponder things while waiting for the 2nd geners to catch up.
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