Flyinfool

Absolutely, If you do this we need a LOT of before during and after pics. If you do not post enough pics we will sic @cowpuc and the on you.

Any issue can be overcome. Just trying to be sure that you are aware of ALL of the potential issues before you are at the point of no return. Do some more careful measuring of you 1st gen. Mine is more than 8' long. I park it in a 8' metal garden shed. It has to be at almost a 45° angle to get the door closed. Measure the exact inside dimension of your trailer. Now lay that out on the ground and set up some boxes or sheets of wood to simulate the walls and door width. See if you can get the bike thru that without touching the walls or door, and close the door behind the bike. You may have to make the door wider than what you planned. As for loading, I would strongly consider using an electric winch like Rbig1 did in his RV build. If after considering all of the issues and you still want to do the conversion, we will still give you all of the help you need. As for total weight, there is a lot more "stuff" than most people realize, you have to figure in the pots pans silverware, dishes, cleaners, toiletries, food lawn chairs table all of the little stuff that individually weighs almost nothing but adds up to several hundred pounds if you put it all in a pile. For measuring the tongue weight, you can use a bathroom scale, since the weight will be a lot more than most bathroom scales can handle, make a lever to get your reading. Take a piece of thicker plywood about a foot square and put a dowel or rod across it to put on the scale to spread out the load so you do not damage it and get killed by wife. Make a support that has a narrow top that is the same height as the scale + ply and rod. Get a lever arm that is a little more than 3 feet long. Put a mark near one end, then an mark 1 foot from the first mark and then another mark 3 feet from the first mark. Set it up with the first mark on your support, centered on the support that you made, Then the second mark will be under the coupler on the trailer. The third mark will be in the center of your scale + ply + rod. Use a pipe or 2x4 or something similar to reach up to the coupler, its length should be to match the ball height of the tow vehicle when the trailer is attached. Now when you lower the tongue onto this contraption and read the scale, you will have to multiply the scale reading by 3 to get the actual tongue weight. This way a 600 lb tongue weight would read as 200 lb on the scale. Set this all up on the scale to get an idea of how much your contraption weighs so that you can subtract that from the scale reading. You can use this same theory to weigh the whole trailer using your bathroom scale. You will just need a longer lever arm, maybe a 5 : 1 instead of a 3 : 1 for the tongue. PS Do not let the wife see you make off with the bathroom scale............

OK so where is everyone? Just 1 week away and it is not looking like much of a crowd.

Cool, enter toy shopping mode to celebrate. I am curious, for the live fire tests, what is the target and at what range?

I see the equal pay for equal work thing play out every day at work. There is one woman machinist in our shop. The quality of the parts she makes is equal to what any of the men produce. But she does make a bit less pay than those around her. Her job description is the same, her job title is the same, and her actual duties are the same. The problem that none of these studies takes into account is that she is physically able to only do 95% of the job. When it comes time to lift something heavy into her machine during setup and tear down, one of the men near her has to stop what he is doing to help her do her job. Once this was pointed out to her she was able to accept that she should get less because her "equal work" was only on paper. I have absolutely no problem with equal pay for equal work if the work is truly equal. I also have no issue with pay inequality if the work is also not completely equal. I don't even have a problem with a woman making more if her work is actually better than the mans work.

I work with a guy that is doing just that. He ordered a cargo trailer and had them build in the windows, doors and roof vents, one of which is stressed to support a roof mount AC, to his specs with the interior completely unfinished. He is now in the process of building it out to a toy hauler / RV that will meet his specific needs. He is making the walls thicker than normal for more insulation in them and is also insulating the floor and ceiling so that the AC does not have to work as hard on a hot day sitting in the sun or the furnace can keep up in the winter for deer hunting. His main motivation is that his wife is in a wheel chair and not even the "handicap accessible" campers have enough room to wheel her into the bathroom and for him to also be in there to lift her out of the chair onto the pot. The ramp on the back will also make it a lot easier to get her in and out of the camper.

In addition to the tongue weight issues mentioned above and exceeding the GVW of the trailer and or the tow vehicle. A REALLY BIG issue will be the frame. I really doubt if the frame will be strong enough to hold that much weight. Many campers have frame issues just adding a rack on the back for 2 bicycles. I have seem broken frames from 2 mountain bikes on a rack. Look at your frame and then go to an RV dealer and look under a similar size toy hauler to see the difference in the frame and suspension. By the time you beef up the frame, and suspension and brakes to handle an extra 1200-1500lbs it might not be worth it.

And without men they would not be here either.

I may be getting older but I refuse to grow up..........

I did make a request to have Freebird attempt to restore the attachments to this thread.

I don't know if this site has enough bandwidth to do this............... Sledding down 50 foot high near vertical cliffs. Riding bicycles down those same cliffs. Just for fun pelting the squad cars with snowballs or rotten fruit/vegies what ever was in season as they drove by, they would chase you all night. Old people were no challenge. At the local hobby shop, jumping into a car with a total stranger to go to his house two cities away.

Here is another one that could help with a problem. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?81670-Carburetor-air-vent-system Thanks for all you do for us!

It has been a bit sleepy in there lately. But then you never know when a crowd will show up. I have had some projects going on so I am not getting in there till a bit later.

That black canister on the left side next to the carbs that you mentioned. If it is what I think you are describing then you have a California bike. That is extra emissions crap that is needed only for the Republic of California. There should never be gas in that canister and the canister is sealed so even if gas did get in there it should not leak out. You may have gas dripping onto the back side of that canister and then dripping off the front side so that it looks like that is where it is coming from. I never traced out the plumbing to that canister to see if there is even a place where gas could possibly get into it. One of these days I am going to figure out how to replumb everything so I can get rid of that black canister, it is always in the way when working on that side of the bike.

Preventive maintenance is something you do to prolong life of something. The insurance companies are hoping that you will die of something quick before they have to lay out big money for something. Once you reach a certain age you are more expensive than the premiums that you are paying in. Insurance companies do not like that.

That would only add the volume of the spin on, at best it might get you up to using 4 quarts instead of 3.5. Not sure if there is room to have the spin on stick that far forward. have to do some measuring. With the size of my brain power it better be a small tax.......or I will reset to standard default programming...........................

WHAT??

OK just thinking out loud here. I do not think that those are cooling fins so much as strengthening ribs on the OEM Filter housing. On the other hand, the wall of a spin on filter is fairly thin so that will help to dissipate heat over its surface area. The ribs on the OEM housing are not real big. I would be curious to do the math and compare just how much of a difference there is in surface area between the OEM and a spin on setup. I bet it is less than you might think. Looking at this pic for comparison. I kind of like this black one better. I am not into shiny. Chrome is bad. I was thinking of getting one of these adapters for my bike. But now I am back to leaning toward designing and making my own, that way I can design in some cooling fins into all that smooth surface area that there is on the ebay adapter. Or for that matter take the one from ebay and just add the cooling fins to it. I am thinking that by adding fins to the adapter I can get even more cooling capability than the OEM. Dang, and I am due for my spring oil change right now too.................. I just sent the seller an email asking if the Venture has a cross bar issue like the V-Max does.

That depends on who you ask. Meteorological spring started on March 1st. So who is coming up / over / down here to see a 747 burger in person? and watch it do a vanishing act..........

Sounds like fun. As mentioned, anytime you mess with the air filter or air box the carbs do not like it. You will have to either rejet or do like Zagger and restrict air or maybe a combination of both. I also made my own Valve tool, I originally copied the Yamaha tool, but that was very hard to machine. So I redesigned it to work the same but was a lot easier to make.

I have been having great luck putting this line in the ad along with the contact info; "Scammers don't bother, I know all your tricks" The scammers have to actually look at and read the add to get my contact info so they will always see it. It is rare that they waste their time on me, and as mentioned, they are really easy to spot. If they are dumb enough to still contact me I will make an effort to waste as much of their time as possible, That is time they can not spend scamming someone that does not know better.

That sucks. I hope PP can get your money back.

I would also have him check for a plugged tank vent like the 2nd gens are known for. Run it till it quits and pop the gas tank filler, if there is a vacuum in there you will hear the rush of air and it will then start right back up.

Yes you are old................. Join the crowd.

Who ME?????