Long distance highway cruising

[DSRTRDR]

keep your 40 and buy an 80 for road trips

/this\

I have done Omaha to Phoenix in the 40 - and numerous trips from Phoenix to Moab over several days

yeah, you are deaf by night time, your legs get a real workout, you can't hear the others on the CB, and if it's too hot outside, you are almost sauteed

but, you get to sleep real well, accrue muscle strength, focus on the important stuff and take in the smells - not to speak of all the heads you turn and everybody wants to talk to you at the gas stations [nothing of this happens when you drive an 80, just sayin']

I would do every single trip again

 

[roma042987]

man reading this thread makes me want to hit the road again

 

[Fast Eddy]

Could you post some more pics of this install?

Not easily. It's out in the rain under a tarp.

I have developed a little play in the wooden shim that I made that adapts the shifter outer diameter to the brake lever inner diameter, so I need to take it apart eventually. I was thinking that if I coated the shim in plasti-dip it would tighten it up and seal it against wear and moisture.

There are pictures in my 'after' thread of the e-locker circuit and the other end of the e-locker cable where it connects to the switch under the dash. I never did take a picture of how the bike brake cable attaches to the gas pedal, but I didn't fab anything there. The pedal has a lever for a cable attachment at the top as well as the rod linkage that passes through the firewall. It's a Toyota piece, but probably not original to this rig or even to a '76. In any case the brake cable housing is attached to an original bracket for a full-throttle emissions cutout and the cable just hooks into the top of the pedal. If that attachment point wouldn't have been so easy, I probably would never have gotten around to finishing the hand throttle.