Flyinfool
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Just take all of the parts and put them in a Ziploc baggie full of uncooked rice, it will be fine in a couple of weeks.
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Just do some simple sound desensitizing exercises like we do for hunting dogs. My dog as a pup was terrified of loud noises. Now just barely bats an eye for fireworks or thunder. But the dog on the desk is funny............
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Wally world will not spend a nickle that they do not absolutely have to. It should be easy enough to identify the phone just have whomever is picking it up call the phone to prove that they know its number. Assuming they were nice enough to turn it off to save the battery.
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The converter is most likely your culprit. Not all converters are compatible with LED lights. Some of the converters (especially older designs still in production) actually reverse the polarity of the bulbs depending on the present mode of operation. With incandescent bulbs it does not matter, they do not care about polarity, LEDs do care about polarity. If the package for the converter does not say LED compatible, you have a 50 / 50 chance as to weather it will work correctly. You want a converter that uses its own power source. If your converter does not have a separate power wire that goes direct to the battery then all of the trailer lighting power is going thru the bikes electrical system. The bike wiring and flasher circuit was not designed to handle the extra current. You could go to an electronic flasher on the bike, and/or play with adding resistors till you get it to work, but that will take some custom wiring and messing around on your part, and your bike will then be set up for that specific trailer. The converter that I have was only $18 at a local marine supply store, and it said on the package "LED compatible". I will check as soon as I get a chance to see what the model number is.
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We need more info on your setup. Is the trailer wired for 4 or 5 wire? Does the trailer use the same bulbs for both the brake lights and the turn signals or are they separate bulbs? Do you have a trailer light converter installed on the bike? If so which one? I just finished setting up my bike to pull a trailer with all LEDs and the flash rate is the same with or without the trailer connected all lights very bright when they should be and no light at all when they should be off. As it should be.
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Tom I have a couple of almost new ones up on a closet shelf at home. You can choose from a cheap portable up to a very high end deck for a home stereo system.
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I did update my maybe status. I am still a maybe depending on mamas foot.
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After reading up on the TCI job, it sounds a little ambitious for a MD project. But with Erikas foot issues, Dons MD is looking less likely and this one is looking more likely since I will only be gone from home for about 16 hours instead of 3 days. And with all of my new lights on the bike, riding home in the dark will be safer than it was last year.
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I'm on a roll today. Got the tent out and set it up. Two of the loops for the ground stakes were ripped out. Got it all sowed back together, better than new. Yes I know how to sew, I even own my own sewing machine.
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#14 is now done. I installed the KC HiLites Series 35 driving lights. The conversion to HID will have to wait till after MD. Just no time left. These lights will help a lot toward finding the deer on the sides of the road at night.
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Thats cuz you always ride with 2nd gens........
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Blonds might be fast, but they are seldom quick.......
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Moving TCI to airbox
Flyinfool replied to PEIslander's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
I have been looking on line and the new ones seem to start at $750 and go up from there. I have not found a good used one anywhere yet. Sounds a little pricey to save some wrenching time. Does anyone have a good TCI that I can buy? Does anyone have pics of the TCI on top of the air box??? -
Will anyone be coming that has done a 1st gen TCI diode replacement? Is this a realistic WI MD project? I can do the soldering part of it, I am very comfortable working on electronics. I just am not sure what all is involved in getting the TCI in and out of the bike. and or relocating it to the top of the air cleaner.
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Kool, in another 20 years when my 1st gen is getting tired I will finally be able to afford a EFI 2013 Yami. Ya think we will have all of the bugs figured out by then?
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Yup that is correct, Blue is the fastest and brown goes just a little faster, and Red goes just a little faster than ANY other color. More red vehicles get nabbed for speeding than any other color, that proves it. And of course 1st gens are faster, that way we always get first dibs on the ice cream and are relaxing with our favorite flavor, while waiting for the 2nd gens to catch up all relaxed and stuff. With this crowd you do not want to be last in line for ice cream, you might not get any. I also think that the 1st gens look much better tan the 2nd gens, to me the 2nd gens look to much like a hardly and I don't like there look either.
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Now that would be a very novel idea for her, she is the worst I have ever seen at following docs (or anyone's) instructions. But I have a plan, I put a Stainless ball bearing into the bandages under the bottom of the good part of her foot so that it is very painful to try to walk on it. Shhhhh, don't tell her. So at least for now she is now using the walker to get around. The real challenge will come on the 31st when she come home and does not have someone there to keep yelling at her to stay off the foot.
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EEEWwwwwww............ Not soggy corn flakes. By now they must be corn soup or corn mash. That will cause issues in a normal person. Splurge, get a nice fresh bowl of corn flakes.
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Thanks to all for your well wishes. She says I am already spoiled, rotten, so therefor I can not GET spoiled. It has already been decided long ago that she does not like the way I make breakfast. Her loss. I'll have to work on that one And it takes two good feet to land a kick in the butt. Besides, now I can out run/walk her........ Now I just need to figure out how to explain to a woman, with no concept of physics, that already knows everything, that even a "giant" Mercury Mountaineer does NOT have tonnage over everything on the road, especially cement trucks. You just can not even try to push them around. On a better note she is feeling better each day. But it will still be a long slow heal. I'm sure it will get worse before it gets better, especially when she gets home and has to deal with a walker and steps.
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And just what did you determine is the reason for this?
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Freebird's Maintenance Day Parts/Accessories Thread
Flyinfool replied to michellea's topic in Watering Hole
Beer runs??? Beer cuts into the amount of ice cream one can eat....... Why wast valuable stomach capacity. -
Open it carefully Don. You do realize that Annie has been talking to Mini.............. And Mini has only said that SHE will not do anything to YOU.........
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Did you read the questions?
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Someone hurry up and get this target, I'm still waiting for the next target. Something about an old ugly dude like me, on a bike, taking pics of school kids, and all of the true crazies and the offsetting do gooders around here.
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This could be a wrinkle in the plans. The boss has a FUBARed foot. (no it was not from having to kick me in the a$$...............again..............) There is a whole hardware store in that foot now, with 4 broken toes, that have long pins that go in the tip of the toe and run almost to the ankle to hold all of the pieces lined up, and a few screws for good measure that will be permanent.The pins should come out in about 8 weeks. She spent 4 hours in surgery getting all of the parts lined up. The prognosis is for a full recovery and back to kicking my tail by the end of summer. I'll have to see if she is going to be ambulatory enough to handle letting the dog out and taking care of herself with me gone for a weekend. It does not look good at the moment. I really wanted to make it to my first Freebird MD, but if mama needs me I will stay home.