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  1. Flyinfool
    Well I think I have most of the diagnostics done on the truck. Fried fuel pump and fuel level sender. Fried turn signal switch assembly. Fried brake light switch. Many many melted wires. It looks like somewhere in that big 2 inch diameter wire harness there is a short between the brake light circuit and the fuel pump circuit that caused an overload to those circuits, after the fuse, so those wires started to melt and melt adjacent wires and it snowballed from there. Looks like $500-600 in parts. And at least a week of rewiring and replacing fried stuff. None of the fried components are easy to get to. Each of the fried components is a major project by itself. It will take a miracle for me to get this all done, and get time to pack the bike for the trip, and implement my super secret plan for mamas foot (Shhhh... she don't know about it yet:duck:)
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    Well I was going to deliver the first tool to RandyR at MD but since I will not be making the trip I will ship it to him for the first test.
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    Well between mamas foot and my truck just blew up, the trip to Freebirds MD this year will not happen. I even had everything on the list finished just barely in time. I guess that all I can do if hope for next year. :crying: I was really looking forward to meeting a lot of you folks.:crying:
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    My truck, in Black Creek, on the way to the UP. Not pretty.
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    What he said. When my gps was new home was the factory where it was built.
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    I could have really used that..........
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    OH OH I sure hope there is no collateral damage........
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    Still trying to get GF to even try to sit on the bike. Back in High school her BF of the time took here for her first ride, she spent the next 3 months in the hospital. Understandably, she is a little skeptical of getting back on, even now 40 years later.
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    I sure wish I had that jug Friday and/or yesterday while stranded in Black Creek. My 260 mile planned drive ended up being a 36 hour ordeal / electrical nightmare.
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    FWIW The chevy V8s with the plastic intake manifolds are a well known leak point. I had the same mysterious coolant disappearing act till it got bad enough to find. The factory intake gaskets leak coolant slowly on top of the engine where there is enough heat to evaporate it before it can drip. When it finally got found and fixed was when it blew all together and the coolant could pour out faster than you could put it in. My mechanic was amazed that I had 100K on the factory gasket, he said it might be a record. Make sure that you get the good Felpro gaskets for the repair. Sorry for the thread hijack.......
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    Due to the areas where I work and the area where I live. It is a habit to not leave anything of even questionable value in sight and or unlocked. At work if you leave a quarter in the cup holder of the center consol, someone will smash a window to get at it. it don't take much perceived value to get hit.
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    Oh my!!! This sounds serious. It could be fatal if not treated quickly. The only cure might be to lock you ALONE in a room with nothing but a credit card and a computer with an internet connection.
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    If that is aluminum you could always have someone TIG weld it on the back side. There is a local weld shop that I take small aluminum jobs to. It does not matter which welder comes to the door it is always wait here, brings it back in 5 minutes, welded, I hand him a fiver that goes right in his pocket.......
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    Agreed Electronic cruise that will disengage with either brake is the best. A cruise that will disengage with the front brake (mechanical lock or electronic) is the next best. A cruise that can be overpowered is the last choice that I would make. There is no way I would want a cruise that does not have some form of auto-release or can not be overpowered. (I am not sure if there really is such a thing, I personally have never seen one.) FWIW From the training that I have had, I was taught that if you are mashing the brakes in a panic stop, that since your left side has nothing better to do, it should be pulling in the clutch. Pulling the clutch has almost the same effect at the rear wheel as dropping the throttle whether or not you have a throttle lock engaged. You should also be clicking down thru the gears as is appropriate as your speed drops so that you are ready for rapid acceleration in case it is needed as the emergency stop unfolds.
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    That is as bad as Kyle Busch doing 128mph in a 45mph in a residential area. Someone that should really know better.
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    :sign yeah that: Every lock that I have ever had over the years could be easily overpowered to either open or close the throttle while locked.
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    It is also birthing season right now. The moms are ready to drop their new young and are driving last years young out of the territory. That is how they keep the gene pool spread out. All of these yearling deer are looking for new homes and do not know the teritory that they are traveling through. If they were born and raised in an area with no busy roads, they have not been taught how to cross the street. This and the fall mating season are the two times of year you are most likely to find deer running blindly across the road.
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    On the occasion that I have had to get a block of rooms, I did make every effort to keep the hotel informed as to what was happening, yes they were very appreciative of knowing. While you are correct that based on the agreement you had no legal obligation to contact the hotel, courtesy is a 2 way street. Especially in the case of a small privately owned place, a big chain can more easily absorb the loss of a couple of nights rent.
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    This still makes me wish I could "legally" obtain a cell phone jammer. That way no one within 100 feet of me would be on the phone. Every car should be equipped with a jammer that activates when moving. There could be a 911 override.
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    There are 7" electric drum brakes available that are made to fit in an 8" wheel and still have the same 4 bolt pattern. There are a few different brake controllers out that would be appropriate for this use.
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    If we knew what you were trying to do we could help you out better. There are a LOT of different kinds of black plastic available with drastically different properties. For instance one of the least expensive is polyethylene, it can be cut and heat formed but is soft so that it will not hold a screw well and it is almost impossible to glue to. There are others that glue well but can not be formed, etc etc.
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    Trailer brakes are feasible, and I have been giving it some serious thought, and I Have them all speced out as to what I will all need to do it. But there is no time to do that before MD. The stopping power on my bike was REALLY BAD before these new brakes.
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    I just replaced my left front and rear brake pads with EBC HH. Last year I put the HH in the right front. It did not need new pads, the old ones were only worn to about 50%. I can not believe the difference in stopping power that the rear brake now has. I can literally stop in half the distance that it took with the old pads. I was very concerned about stopping power with a trailer in tow. My concern was justified, I will feel much better with the trailer now.
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    No snickers bar but there was a Babe Ruth bar, guess I need to camp closer to the PP ................ I got the new HH pads installed for the left front and rear brakes. Put HH on the right front last year. WOW what a difference, This has alleviated my braking concerns with pulling the trailer. Getting close to done with everything. All that's left is to fab up a mount for the GPS, and fab up a cooler rack for the trailer. I plan on pulling the trailer to work all of next week just to get used to having it back there. I will have everything on my original list done in time to make it to MD. Now it is just up to Mamas bum foot.
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    Well it is getting close enough for me to start watching the long range weather horrorcasts. The last 6 days of the 10 day horrorcast is for what would be near perfect weather. Not that I actually believe the weather people...........but it does give me something to look at. Think Freebird can string on another 3 good days onto the end of the week?
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