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    I found something else yesterday while working on the Tag-Along. Apparently HF provides PolyLock nuts with the kit. I was changing some things on the trailer and when I removed a nut I noticed it was on backwards, as in poly side first. I got to looking closer and found EVERY PolyLock nut was the same way. Installed poly side first. I've bent wrenches for a long time and it cracked me up as from my experience, that ain't easy to do. The PO had to of invested a lot of time and effort to have got them all on. You would think that after fighting the first one the guy might have looked for a easier way. After all..... it's only got two sides right. Found a few other things that apparently he didn't bother to look at the parts diagrams on either. Like the bolts to attach the body to the frame. Bolt, two washers, rubber padding, into the body and through the frame and the nut (poly side first) Stuff like that gets me to chuckling. It's wrong, but it's funny.
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    Just be glad it didn't blow up. I feel for ya Karl. I really do. It was 8 months ago when I damaged the membrane in my elbow. You got off easy. It sucks, and it's painful as all get out. If you aren't the quesy type.... read this thread. I'm not EVEN going to show you the pics. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66817 It was still about 6 months and I was still having trouble using my arm the was I used to. Takes a long time for that to heal up so don't push it. Can't blame ya for having a sip or two but I got to agree, probably not a good time if your doing meds. Take care. Mike
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    I know who's causing this madness!!
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    I'm not a club member to any other than this lively bunch of nuts but I'd call BS on that. Then again, I'm not a big fan of being told what I can ride or wear. I had a director at my company tell me I could not have a PGR support patch on my own wind breaker while on store property. He didn't care much for my answer to that comment very much and the patch remains to this day. I think your guy has his head too close to the tailpipe myself. You're being treated like a prospect. My Mike
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    This thread reminds me of sitting in a doctors office and reading a magazine article and getting that feeling that you read it before..... years ago. What? Clinton ain't da prez anymore? When did that happen? :rotf:
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    It does sound like your'e still dealing with fuel starvation. With sitting that long the Sea Foam may not fix everything. Keep after the treatment letting the SF sit in the carbs for a time and see what clears up. Mine sat 9 years before I bought it and SF bought it around... almost. Still had to pop the carbs to get it done right. The plugs should be burning a nice tan color when running right. The black shows rich fuel mix. BUT !!! With the heavy SF treatments it does foul the plugs badly. Everything the SF remove ends up where? Burning onto the plugs. I see mraf just mentioned the diaphragms. Be a good thing to check out. The bike will run worse with the air box cover and and like he said.... face out of the way!! It will pop back though the carbs. I would check the fuel level settings on the carbs to and find out if that is low on any or all of them. Low fuel level will do the same thing you are talking about. Checking fuel bowl level is an easy trick with a short piece of clear air line and a male/male adaptor to plug into the carb drain line. No need to pull them off for that. But it will tell you where you are at with that issue. Mike
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    And he's from Woodstock. Ok,OK the wrong Woodstock but it ya know..........
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    Hang on! I got it! I got it!!!!
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    Yep, they're in there. In that pic the bike is laying on the side stand so it look a lil off. The day I went to pick up the trailer I couldn't get the coupler to drop over the ball. Period! I had to remove the coupler and spread it a bit to get it hooked up. The PO didn't install any washers so it was crimped in pretty good. The latch will become pinched when the coupler is tightened down without the washers. Won't move at all without a pry bar. Drops like it should now. I got it home and checked the coupler and latch and it was fine. Installed a washer on each side and it works like a charm now. One handed hook up now. The PO created a lot of problems for himself putting the kit together. I can see why he never pulled it and traded it off. If I wasn't familiar with some of the issuse brought up by HF owners here I probably would have passed on this one myself. Glad I didn't. Mike
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    The PO had a metal plate hanger already mounted. I don't know if that was the OEM one from HF or not but it looks a lot tougher than the plastic one that came with the HF LED kit. That one is in the trash already. Will be looking into your idea for sure. Thanks. Mike
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    Yeah ...... I thought it would be the same size as a MC plate. Silly me.
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    I started that thread a while back on "The things you find" and it just kept going the farther I got into the New/Used HF Tag-Along I bought a while back. The PO had to be one creative bugger to get the kit as far as he did. But then he did get rid of it before going anywhere and I got a pretty good idea of why he did now. The wiring..... geesh! I think he used a drill and razor wire to fish the harness through the frame. I couldn't go 2 feet of wire without finding a chewed up or broken wire patched with ScotchLocks with the bare ends hanging out inside the frame. In the end I had to replace the entire trailer harness and considering the mods to the taillight housings he did, I broke down and bought the HF LED kit and installed it. At least the LEO's won't be shaking my tree for a license plate light being out. That sucker lights up with the LED's. But after installing the new harness, shielded with harness wrap, and soldering and shrink wrapping every connection from the 5/4 converter all the way to the tail lights I'm sure it will serve me well for quite a while. Still need to tuck in some rubber grommets where the harness goes through the frame but that's a quick fix. Got the 5/4 wire converter tucked in by the frame under the seat. Piece of cake hooking that up. I hooked the side markers and rear tails to the marker lights on my switch panel. That way I can kick the lights on all the way around without the key in the bike. Had one moment there where I was ready to panic because the four ways weren't working until I remembered I hadn't hooked up the brake light wire yet. Whew! I don't like loose wires on my bike so I added a plug holder on the rear light bar for easy access. Nice clean connection. I got the rubber hose installed on the rear spring bolts. New zerks are in. Coupler has been bent back to the original shape and washers installed. One handed hookup now. Siliconed in the frame plugs, or at least three of them. Missing one so that search is on. Cleaned off the Vaseline that HF uses off the wheel bearings and packed them with High Temp and set the bearings. Got my Nebraska trailer plate mounted. Note the size of that thing. I never noticed the bike plates here before but that sucker is gonna cause some serious drag. Suppose I should mount another plate on the other side so it don't lean. Going to make some mini mudflaps for the trailer tires. Need somewhere to mount some of those lil chrome nekked ladies. Well, looking at that pic maybe I won't need mudflaps with that big ol plate hanging there. My friend (The Piper) that pinstriped my helmet last year stopped by and was eyeballing the trailer. I know what he's thinking......He was grinning. So I miss anything? I'm going to have to go out and drag it around now and check out. Looks like it's gonna rain. Guess I'll find out how water proof it is. Mike
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    The closer to perfect the better in my book. The fit to the intake boots was the first problem I had on mine getting them seated properly. The "Sandwich Board" solved that. The biggest plus was as many times I had the the rack off the bike was it helped keep all the linkage adjustments pretty close to where I started from. Once I got the hang of it the sync would barely change between teardown to reinstall. I've used the gizmo to trouble shoot racks as soon as they came off the bike when someone else was having problems getting them to seat and seal up. Clamp it in and loosen the screws and they bodies would shift. Tighten them down and put them back on. Worked pretty well and saves time. As you know and understand, the point of getting each axis spot on has great benifits. Everything works in sync like it should and no binding of linkages. Sound a bit anal? Probably. It just makes it easier for me. Mike For a guy doing it one time I'd say the counter top would work fine if they pay attention to the levels of each body. When you do it a lot, every trick helps.
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    Happy Birthday Earl!!!! All the time we spent doing PM's last night and if I'd known I would have tormented ya then. Maybe than explains it..... And I'm using a larger font today for your present. (I already sent ya money) Enjoy your day and take the time to relax for a bit. Mike
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    I had my carbs off the bike so many times when I first got it and AFTER I figured out how critical the carb body alignment was I made a set of plates out of counter top material to "sandwich" the bodies. There are some linkages and fittings that extend past the points where the bodies meet the plate surfaces so I used hole saws and a jig saw to make room for them and places to access each brakect screw that would need to be tightened during the process. I'd install each screw loosely and set the rack assembly on the lower plate and allign the linkages to the holes. Then set on the top plate and line it up. Don't want to bend or break any thing. I used two large C-clamps to pull the plates together until there were NO gaps on the plate surfaces then tighten all the screws down. It was butt ugly and looked like a piece of hard to eat Swiss Cheese but in made the reassembly of the rack easier and the rack was the same each and every time when I was done. But it was CHEAP and useful. Mike
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    Ouch!!! The last time a gal gave the best 6 years of her life she took 25 off mine. :rotf: I'll be running now....... Jackson* (The name has been changed to protect the one that will probably get beat up)
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    Sounds like they are doing their job. They might even move more when you get everything cleaned up and adjusted. Like Twigg said, when they quit moving is when you start to worry. And don't forget to use an assembly plate of some sort when you mount the carbs back together with the brackets. All four carbs NEED to be dead flat across the bottoms. And then time for a sync. Mike
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    You need to talk with my daughter. A cell tower was down where she lives last night and she didn't have cell service from 10:00PM to about 4:30AM. I'm still getting texts from her on how bad it was. You two can share your feelings. I felt bad for her. I slept through it an missed all the excitement. Mike
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    Too funny But did it land on its feet how deep was the hole?
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    I run a service route to several Wally Worlds and Sam's Clubs to check mechandise displays 5 days a week. Seems like any rule of common sense in left at home in the parking lots. And anyone in the way of a parking spot near the buildings is open game for a full body hit. I've been clipped by a car while walking through the lot, knocking me down. I got rear ended by an old coot (I mean OLD) on a lil scooter on my bike. My last car was T-boned at the entrance road by a woman who ran a stop sign. She told me and the LEO that she didn't have to stop because the stop sign post was bent. (about 5 degrees so it wasn't working) Didn't Earl get rear ended on his bike in a Wally World a while back? And my daughter wonders why I hate shopping. Mike
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    My best friend back in the 70's opened a glass bottle of Pepsi one day. He took a few drinks and then nothing was coming out. His dad checked the bottle and got to digging out what was blocking it. Turned out to be a piece of finger tip. All was done and documented and the best offer Pepsi came up with was life time supply of their product. He still don't drink soft drinks today. And EVERYTHING gets poured into a glass first.
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    I'm looking at some of the same issues with that "New/Used" Tag-Along I just bought. With the stock draw bar it just isn't going to handle the weight of a cooler rack with cooler loaded and a spare tire mounted on the tongue. With the axle set so far back it would be a trick to load the trailer well enough with the gear I want to carry and still retain a decent tongue weight. So longer it will be. Mike
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    I'd want to tweak that 11mm up a bit but the others are pretty close. Gotta be careful when bendin the brass tang. It don't take much to change the level a lot. All at the same level is great. Close is pretty danged good. You have new diaphragms don't ya? I'll leave the question on the needle adjusment to the better informed carb guys. Mike
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    Look at the bottom of your billfold. And don't forget to buy the right charger for it to. Not cheap items. I think Dingy did some research on them during the "Tweety" project. Might search some of his old threads on the subject. I can't help ya on the the "where" part. I quit looking when I saw the prices. Mike
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    It's not that hard of a job to do a repair on the clutch assembly. It can be done on the side stand without even draining the oil, which you would want to do anyway when you're done. I know at least one member here has done his on the road in a parking lot due to a failure. I used the kit by skydoc_17 on '84 when I had the same type of problem you are having. Worked great and still pulling strong. As said, if the metal plates are not damaged you have a problem than can be fixed fairly easy and without ripping your wallet to shreds. Mike
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