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  1. Flyinfool
    I have never changed a bulb and not had to readjust the headlight aiming.
  2. Flyinfool
    YUP:rasberry:
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    My tummy can be bribed, and I pretty much have to follow it everywhere it decides to go.
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    So are there any other WI riders or others that might be passing thru WI that want to met up for the ride to Dons? At the moment my plan is to leave real early Friday morning to clear Chicago before them Ilinesian folks get up and hit the road and anything they can find on the road.
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    True, but some of the bikes other than Harleys and 2nd gens might give us a run for our money as to who leads.......
  6. Flyinfool
    Also check the main fuse.
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    Thats what they make kids for.........
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    Unlike regular lights LEDs have a polarity, fortunately if you hook them up backwards, nothing bad happens, they just don't light up (the flashing LED is an exception to this, hooking it up backwards will let out the magic blue smoke). Also most LEDs do not run on 12V so you ned to add a dropping resistor in series with the LED. The value of the dropping resistor will depend on the LED being used, they are not all the same voltage. For the flashing red LED from Radio Shack I used a 330 ohm 1/4W resistor. As far as the wiring of the switch I tapped into the headlight wire just before the dimmer switch. This way I am not switching the headlight power and I'm using the relays that are already built into the HID. With the HID the headlight power is no longer running thru the bikes electrical system, it has its own fused power lead right to the battery. You could do the exact same thing by cutting the power wire for the HID but then you should also add a relay to handle the high power. So to add the switch and LED it would be; Cut wire that supplies power to dimmer switch. Connect the positive side of the LED/resistor to one of the outside terminals of the switch. Other end of LED/resistor to ground. Other outside terminal of switch to wire from dimmer switch. Center terminal of switch to other end of headlight wire that you just cut.
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    Start by checking the battery voltage with a meter directly across the battery with the ignition on. If it is less than 12V then you need to charge it and figure out why the bike is not charging it. It could be as simple as a dirty connection. Don't forget that it could be a corroded connection at either end of the battery cables. This is the easy part to check.
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    I have had my Venture for 4 years now. Still trying to talk the better half into going for a ride. The ride would have to start at the bike shop to find her at least a helmet. None of my old ones fit her right. She is deathly afraid of bikes since she had a bad wreck as a teen when her boyfriend at the time turned his head and said watch this.......... ........3 months later she got out of the hospital. It has also been 20+ years since I have had a passenger. She is weakening, I think one day she will get on for a short ride to test the waters. I have a couple of trips planned for this summer, she does not like to be left alone.
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    I would still run at least some electric out there. At least a 20A circuit to have lights and some battery maintainers...... It gonna be real dark if you have to get something in or out at night.
  12. Flyinfool
    OK you had me cornfused for a bit. You installed a digital volt meter, not a digital amp meter. According to the wiring diagram that main fuse is a 40 Amp. I carry more than 1 spare for ALL the fuses on the bike. You can blow several fuses while trouble shooting a problem on the side of the road. The 2 most likely things that will blow the main fuse are; 1. A wire in the harness before the fuse panel get rubbed, or pinched and shorts to ground. 2. You add enough lights and accessories to actually pull more than 40 Amps to blow the main fuse.
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    Just remember, the Harleys do not have enough horse power to be in front of you if you don't want them there.
  14. Flyinfool
    If you get it welded up again, pay the little bit extra to have them use all stainless steel parts and welding wire. Like the factory did.
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    I changed my iPod name to Titanic. It's syncing now. When chemists die, they barium. Jokes about German sausage are the wurst. A soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid. He says he can stop any time. How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it. I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me. This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore. I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down. I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words. They told me I had type A blood, but it was a Type- O. A dyslexic man walks into a bra. PMS jokes aren't funny, period. Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations. Class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there's no pop quiz. Energizer battery arrested. Charged with battery. I didn't like my beard at first. Then it grew on me. How do you make holy water? Boil the hell out of it! Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils? When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble. What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me! Broken pencils are pointless. I tried to catch some fog. I mist. What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus. England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool . I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest. I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx. All the toilets in New York 's police stations have been stolen. Police have nothing to go on. I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough. Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes. Velcro - what a rip off ! Cartoonist found dead in home. Details are sketchy. Venison for dinner? Oh deer ! Earthquake in Washington obviously government's fault. I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure. Be kind to your dentist. He has fillings, too.
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    Its all just a bad rumor. I can tell cuz there's no PICs.........
  17. Flyinfool
    I like the red dash lights. You have a full tank of gas? Go fix that....
  18. Flyinfool
    There is a trick to making very strong threads in wood. 1. Drill and tap for a HeliCoil of the correct size. 2. Soak the threads with thin cyanoacrylate adhesive. 3. After the glue dries, run the tap thru again just to clean things up. 4. Install the HeliCoil. I have used this method to bolt some very highly stressed parts together. Try it on some scrap wood. You can do this without the HeliCoil too, but it is slightly less strong. It is the CA glue binding all of the wood fibers back together that were abused by the tap that makes this work.
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    I started out with autocad 2 and still use a little Autocad in the latest flavors for legacy drawings. For 3D I also have used Mechanical desktop, Iron cad, CadKey, Solidworks, Inventor. They all have their good and bad points.
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    It would not be the first time I caused UFO reports............ If I had a bigger trailer I could bring a UFO with me....... I have the Morgan CarbTune. No fluids to suck up but looks like a mercury set.
  21. Flyinfool
    They are out for testing.
  22. Flyinfool
    I do have mine set up with the flashing red LED from Radio Shack P/N 276-312. It is setup so that the LED is only on when the headlight is off. It is bright enough to be noticeable in daylight. You just need to use a SPDT switch (3 terminal). Fused power goes to the center terminal, The LED goes to one of the outside terminals and the HID goes to the other outside terminal. Very simple and I don't have the extra light to look at at night.
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    1st gens dont have to take that torture cuz they cant catch them....... You started it......... Those do look interesting. Expensive, but interesting.
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    I have two sets of the Bad Boy horns on my '88. I mounted them to the rear crash bars facing forward. They are connected thru a relay using the stock horn button to activate the relay. I started out with just one Bad Boy and added the second one a year later. At first I left the stock horns hooked up but could not hear them at all over the dual Bad Boys (I could still hear them when I had just one Bad Boy) so I took off the stockers and mounted my driving lights there.
  25. Flyinfool
    I will bring my wiring kit. I doubt that I will have time to get all of my electrical work done before then. I may need help figuring out where all to put the 1,000+ LEDs that I have. I can also bring my Carb tune if anyone wants to do a carb sync. Of course I'll bring some snacks to share.
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