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  1. Flyinfool
    Those blue taps are junk. Do yourself a favor and remove them now and solder all of the connections. You would hate to find that the brake light one went bad after you got rear ended cuz the cage did not know you were stopping. Correctly working lights are critical to your safety. There are MANY threads on here condemning those blue taps.
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    NOOOOooooooo! Its to soon. Not till the salt trucks come out to play.
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    I am afraid that we will have another brown xmas here....... You guys out east get all the luck. :snow2::snow2:
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    Well Dingy did have the disclaimer that he is not sure about aftermarket starters. Hope you ended up with a 4 brush. I wonder what a new 4 brush costs from Sky_Doc????
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    Sounds like you may have it this time.
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    Once you have the exhaust and t'stat out of the way, yes the starter comes out "pretty easy".
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    Today was a beautiful day, clear, sunshine, not even a sniff of a possibility of rain in the forecast. In general a great day for a bike ride, and there ain't many good days left till the salt trucks come out to play. So I go out to the shed to start getting the bike out and I get this weird feeling that says I should take the truck to work today. So I finally give in to my feelings and take the truck to work, about a half mile from home I see red and blue flashing lights up ahead. So I am pretty much paying attention to what is going on up ahead when WHAM I hit something that I never saw. Of course I stop immediately to figure out what happened and hear banging on the bottom of the truck. So I shut off the engine fearing that I just ran over some kid I never saw. This happened about 2 blocks past the school right in the middle of town. I jumped out of the truck to see what is under me and there is a deer kicking and squirming like crazy. Well that was a big relief to know it was not some kid. At which point my brain immediately switched gears into thinking of fresh venison steak for dinner tonight. But before I could do much else the deer wiggled out from under the truck and took off running full blast right down the middle of the road. The stupid deer took all of my fresh venison steak with it. The deer did not appear to be injured and there was no damage to my truck other than a clean spot where the deer rubbed off some of the dirt that was carefully placed over the last year. When I was thinking it was a kid under there I think I was to scared to need new shorts, so no damage there either. But had I been on the bike right there and then this might be a very different story. Sometimes it pays to listen to that little voice in the back of your head. It is the silly season for deer. They are coming into the rut and will be running everywhere like crazy. Keep your eyes open for them at ALL times of the day and night. Those bucks only get lucky once a year and they will not let you or anything else get in their way.
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    And your feelings are probably not all that was hurt......... You brought it up, or at least tried to........
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    Would love to hear the story. Had I been there I might have wet my pants............
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    Am I that bad.......... but now that you mention it, as long as you are there, check the plastic 90° elbow that goes from the t'stat to the water pump on the right side, look real close for a small nick right on the bend. See post #12 and #14. Good time for the starter brush grounding job since the t'stat housing has to come out to get the starter out. As for hoses, most are not available, but you can get close enough by taking the old hose to an auto parts place and searching for something close enough to cut to fit.
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    Thats a big IF. There is always the chance that I will finish destroying it. I am not sure just how hard the metal of the gear is. I dont know If I can get away with cheap tooling ($75) or if I will need good ones ($120).
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    O.K.
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    Just don't send me no dead shark or other critter parts........
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    I would start with the easy stuff. Just cuz I'm lazy. No matter where you start it will be the last thing you check....... 1. charge the battery. 2. With the bike running at 2500+, the voltage across the battery should be 14V +/-0.5V. Try to be checking the voltage when the light "flickers". 3. dive in and check the connector on the back of the headlight. 4. clean the hi-lo switch. After that if you have not found a problem we can then work thru finding the bad wire.
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    Anyone have a broken gear they don't want? I want to try that french repair method but with my own little twist. Mine has not broke yet. I'll post pics of the progress and do a writeup as I do the repair .........
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    I feel like I'm being ganged up on....... Hmmmmm..... a flyin sandwich. I guess Twigg would have to lead, he at least has a 1st gen to be able to get in front of me......... But I'm still following this thread and series. I've learned a lot so far.
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    As mentioned, before you start spending money and replacing parts, do some testing to find where the real problem is. I just hate seeing people throw money at a problem till it goes away, never actually knowing what the real problem was. From what you are describing, it does not sound like a bad battery, batteries do not pulsate their voltage. many other things do. Go down the list and do as many tests as you can, then just fix the one bad thing. It is not uncommon to have more than one thing go wrong at the same time. Sometimes one bad part can take others with it.
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    Can you get him to send you a pic of what he has? So that we can see what we are dealing with.
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    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.
  22. Flyinfool
    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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