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[Twolanerider]

:bigcry:Feeling your pain Buddy.  When you first started off about watching thru the window and the truck, my mind was spinning ahead and thought you were gonna say she backed over the scooter.  Not to make light of the terrible rock chip, but.....just saying' .....it doth suck big time.  spyder

Absolutely Spyder.  I thought the same thing.  The stupid girl could have done much more and much more significant damage.  As is it's just a big ass paint chip.  In the end it's all good.

[Banana man]

Sorry about the paint chip Don. It really sucks to get the first chip so
soon after the completion. We all know how hard you worked to make
it just right. We are all hurting with you over this one brother!


                             Mark

[Black Diamond]

Really hoping that doesn't prove to be the bike's name.  It hadn't given me a clue yet what it should be.   Damn rocks. 

ROFLMAO     Sorry man, wasn't trying to give her a name!  Just my initial reaction.

[Twolanerider]

Sorry about the paint chip Don. It really sucks to get the first chip so
soon after the completion. We all know how hard you worked to make
it just right. We are all hurting with you over this one brother!


                             Mark

And it's such a big ass chip!  Dammit!  Why couldn't it be itty bitty like m..... well, why couldn't it be smaller?!!?

[spydglide]

And it's such a big ass chip!  Dammit!  Why couldn't it be itty bitty like m..... well, why couldn't it be smaller?!!?

So true.  I just enlarged the pic and it appears as if the tip of the painted flame is blowing a couple of smoke rings.  A very 'artisticly' applied chip if I do say so.. ....har.  spyder

[Banana man]

And it's such a big ass chip!  Dammit!  Why couldn't it be itty bitty like m..... well, why couldn't it be smaller?!!?

I feel your pain brother, I feel your pain.

I also have had tragedy lately. We had a golf cart in the shop through a runaway and hit my
friend's 2010 Tequila Sunrise CVO and pushed it against our tire changing machine. When I
got in the shop and saw it I got sick and thought I was going to throw up.

I hope you can get the chip fixed and it will look new again.

[Twolanerider]

I feel your pain brother, I feel your pain.

I also have had tragedy lately. We had a golf cart in the shop through a runaway and hit my
friend's 2010 Tequila Sunrise CVO and pushed it against our tire changing machine. When I
got in the shop and saw it I got sick and thought I was going to throw up.

I hope you can get the chip fixed and it will look new again.

Just got through with what will be the last layer of top coat.  Took both basecoats and three thin layers of top color to get it about the same.  That's the limit of my touch up skills though.  When it's dry think it'll end up being a four or five repair.  At least it won't look like a big zit that got popped.

[CVOJOE]

Good thing you didn't squeeze the zit huh? 

Seriously, damn shame and totatlly unncessary about the stupid twit-wit spreading gravel all over the place when she left. Hopefully you will recognize here somewhere down the road and educate her about being basically stupid and clueless behavior wise.

Hope the touch up works out for you. After all the blood, sweat, tears, and $'s you've put into this project, it 'just ain't right'!! 

[porthole]

Well that sucks.
Wonder how many people would know who she was if the diner windows got peppered???
 


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[Spiderman]

Dammit.  Bike got its first ding today.  Not catastrophic.  But it's ugly.

Taking advantage of the nice day and had the bike out over the mid day.  Stopped at a diner for a late lunch.  Was sitting where could see the bike through the window and the Ford pickup parked next to it.  Bike was nose in and pickup was backed in.

Young girl got in the pickup to drive away and someone she apparently knew drove by.  She decided she had to catch up and spun her back wheels for 50-60 feet pulling away.  One rock put a divot in the side of the left saddlebag. 

Pickup didn't have plates.  No one inside claimed to know who the girl was.  Not a darn thing to be done other than throw a leg over and ride away.

When I got back still staged all three bikes together in the sun for some quick photos.  Wasn't in the mood to do a lot with them though.  Was still nice to see them all standing together.

Happened to me in Laconia in 1989 at the Harbor Hill Campground. The stupidity is that it was another biker doing it with his bike He stopped, got off his bike, made some lame excuses, never offered to pay for the chip in my fender and kept bugging me to shake his hand. I refused and refused. He was warned by mutual friends to leave me alone. Wouldn't quit. Finally shook his hand - --  I broke his hand in four places. Didn't pay for my damage but to this day, it feels good. Guess you can't do that to a woman. My advice - - key the chit outa that  truck if you ever see it again.

B B 

[Twolanerider]

Happened to me in Laconia in 1989 at the Harbor Hill Campground. The stupidity is that it was another biker doing it with his bike He stopped, got off his bike, made some lame excuses, never offered to pay for the chip in my fender and kept bugging me to shake his hand. I refused and refused. He was warned by mutual friends to leave me alone. Wouldn't quit. Finally shook his hand - --  I broke his hand in four places. Didn't pay for my damage but to this day, it feels good. Guess you can't do that to a woman. My advice - - key the chit outa that  truck if you ever see it again.

B B 

 

[hdbrad03]

Have the charging system gremlin woes been unraveled?


 


    Brad

[Twolanerider]

Have the charging system gremlin woes been unraveled?


 


    Brad

Yes.  Working fine now.  The Road King will never have a large enough accessory load to challenge this charging system.  But it's good to know it's there and working.  It's enough of an improvement over the older systems that when the day comes components fail on the other bikes they'll probably get the same retrofit.

[hogasm]

So what was it regulator

[Twolanerider]

So what was it regulator

No.  I'd screwed up.  Had two separate diagram illustrations for the power connection to the regulator.  The regulator itself isn't marked + and - .

One was supplied from a manual page.  One was supplied by a local from the dealership who said he'd printed it from SPOC support.  The two sheets contradicted each other.  To break the tie I'd asked at the local service department which was correct.  Service writer told me he looked at a bike to confirm so I took his word for it.  Turned out that was wrong.  So I had the positive and negative leads to the regulator crossed.

After having checked everything else I was concerned that might be the problem so asked Scott to double check it on his bike.  He confirmed the actual connections and that I had mine backwards.  Fortunately must be decent polarity protection within the regulator as making the quick change cutting and reconnection the two wires had it working just fine.

That meant I had the choice of the red or chrome regulator (since this was done after the chrome piece had arrived).  I liked the look better with the chrome regulator.

If anyone is ever doing the three phase conversion and needs to know the connection from the stator to the regulator doesn't matter.  Any orientation is fine.  The connection from the main harness to the regulator consists of two pins.  Orientation is front to rear with the regulator installed.  The front pin is ground and the rear pin is power.