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HayesGray
08-22-2010, 12:47 AM
Been on the site for months lurking, admiring and gathering parts. Pulled the rear tire tonight and started my first mod. I have read a shit ton about the sprocket mod on the 750s and decided to start there. I had to pull the axle to install the side mount plate anyway. I found a broken tooth on the drive sprocket and everything was rusted to hell and back; sprockets, chain, ect. I am going with a 16 / 41 tooth combination. The math didn't seem to work out right to me but the website showed that combo.The digi camera charger grew legs ( can one imagine in a household pushing almost 10 not counting the kids whose dads are deployed) so all I have is a shitty ass video of the job half way done I took with the Ipod until I can find the damn charger and get some pics. Sorry to be long winded, blame it on the PBR. :grin3:
Bobbed750
08-22-2010, 06:29 AM
this post is useless without pics...lol
VoodooMaster
08-22-2010, 09:44 AM
this post is useless without pics...lol

FUCKOFF NOOB.
HayesGray
08-22-2010, 08:01 PM
this post is useless without pics...lol

Kind of like your photo gallery huh noob. FUCKOFFHYPOCRITENOOBWITHNOBIKE. NOw post some pics

Ok still looking for the fucking charger. Trying to figure out how to post the shitty video. Pics are comming. This is probably going to be the longest build thread the site has had so far.
HayesGray
08-22-2010, 08:54 PM
Ok here is one pic I managed from a cell phone I borrowed. I am feeling almost Amish due to the lack of technology available to me at the moment.
Mine20
08-22-2010, 09:04 PM
FUCKOFF NOOB.

VooDoo you worked too hard not to use it. . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT_07aw3-bA
HayesGray
08-24-2010, 01:15 AM
More shitty pics. Still looking for that damn charger. My boy decided to mod his bike too.
HayesGray
08-24-2010, 01:17 AM
Forgot to upload pics
vlxbobber
08-24-2010, 10:26 AM
Im more confused now that the pictures are posted? Did you turn a 20" bicycle into a motorcycle?
HayesGray
08-24-2010, 11:06 AM
Yeah, isn't great! No i thought it was funny that my boy decided to wrap his bike up to try and "mod it" Thought I posted that up there. It is simple. I pulled the rear wheel, swapped out sprockets, put on a side mount license plate and started rewiring the thing. VLXbobber, you've been around here for a minute. Have you been so busy trying to figure out my post that you haven't put pics in your Gallery?
I know you have a bike, I've read your threads.
vlxbobber
08-24-2010, 11:45 AM
just breaking balls man! he did a great job
HayesGray
09-25-2010, 08:27 PM
The brake light won't light up when the brakes are applied. I keep looking at the schematic like it is magically going to give the the meaning of life or something. I just can't figure it out. I don't know much about wireing but I have figured out that the brown has the juice adn the green is the ground. I can't figure out what the green/yellow is and how I am supposed to hook the brake light up when the model A light only has two wires and there are a total of five (2) license plate light and (3) the brake light. :bomb: Shit's gonna drive me to drinkin:drink:
bre2ts
09-25-2010, 09:02 PM
if you upload the schematic i will take a look at it. thats pretty much what i do for a living, troubleshoot and fix equipment.

-bre2ts
HayesGray
09-25-2010, 09:27 PM
This is the link I could find to another vlx forum. I don't have a scanner to upload the one from the manual.
http://vlxdiagrams.20m.com/whats_new.html
Edited because I forgot to post the link the first time. Damn PBR! :drink:
bre2ts
09-25-2010, 09:33 PM
my work computer saids theres a virus on that page....

-bre2ts
HayesGray
09-25-2010, 09:39 PM
Good looking out running a scan now. Sorry bro.
bre2ts
09-25-2010, 10:03 PM
Good looking out running a scan now. Sorry bro.

it good just be the over protective software on gvt computer

-bre2ts
vagrant
10-02-2010, 07:55 AM
It could be a bad bulb, I got a new model A taillight and burned out on me within a month or two, rewired the whole damn thing before checking the bulb and realizing what a simple fix it was:grin:
HayesGray
10-02-2010, 03:31 PM
It could be a bad bulb, I got a new model A taillight and burned out on me within a month or two, rewired the whole damn thing before checking the bulb and realizing what a simple fix it was:grin:


Nope, bulb is good. I am the problem. I can't figure out how to wire it. I was messing with it earlier and got frustrated and walked away from it fora bit. I know brown is hot, green is ground, but yellow / green goes where. Do I run brown to the bottom light, green yellow to the top light and the green down to the housing and put it in behind the screw? :furious2: