Home Made Trailor For '11 RT

[pellcitypete]

Been a while since I have been on here. I built a trailer (harbor freight) put led lites on it. put BRP adapter on plugged er up lite up nice took her for a ride cruse control wouldn't work!:banghead: Spent lots of time trying to find out what was going on with tail lites! by chance found out it was power bleeding thru LED tail an brake assembly. :thumbup: simple fix I put a B+ diode in line on brake wire(blue). Everything fine now! Ready to go to Wichita for 2-weeks to see Grandkids:thumbup: Just wanted to share if anyone else has this problem!! Pete

 

[Blue Star]

Been a while since I have been on here. I built a trailer (harbor freight) put led lites on it. put BRP adapter on plugged er up lite up nice took her for a ride cruse control wouldn't work!:banghead: Spent lots of time trying to find out what was going on with tail lites! by chance found out it was power bleeding thru LED tail an brake assembly. :thumbup: simple fix I put a B+ diode in line on brake wire(blue). Everything fine now! Ready to go to Wichita for 2-weeks to see Grandkids:thumbup: Just wanted to share if anyone else has this problem!! Pete

Thank you. I have a Harbor Freight trailer too, and trying to figure out how to wire it to my bike. Did you have the BRP hitch, or the after market one?

 

[pellcitypete]

Thank you. I have a Harbor Freight trailer too, and trying to figure out how to wire it to my bike. Did you have the BRP hitch, or the after market one?

I made my own hitch not that hard to do I will try to post a pic. latter if I can. I had a metal shop make me 2 pieces of metal that looked kinda like this [ an this ] they slid over trailing arms full wide and about 24" long each cut out hole for axel (leave slot to adj belt) then I bolted 2, 1/2" flat bars to the [ had then bent to about 5" apart on back welded 1/4" flat metal top an bottom welded square bar that fits 1&1/4" receiver that in (short version) :thumbup:

 

[Blue Star]

I made my own hitch not that hard to do I will try to post a pic. latter if I can. I had a metal shop make me 2 pieces of metal that looked kinda like this [ an this ] they slid over trailing arms full wide and about 24" long each cut out hole for axel (leave slot to adj belt) then I bolted 2, 1/2" flat bars to the [ had then bent to about 5" apart on back welded 1/4" flat metal top an bottom welded square bar that fits 1&1/4" receiver that in (short version) :thumbup:

Sounds pretty easy, but I do not have the work space or tools to do this. man I really hate living in an apartment sometimes. Looking forward to the pics.

 

[pellcitypete]

home made trailer hitch

here are the pics. hope they help. The channels are 18" long about 3 1/2" wide just enough to go over trailing arm. there is oblong hole for axel to move up or back for belt adj. hitch arms stick out 5 1/2" with square bar and plates welded on. Pete

 

[Bob Denman]

Pete,
:2thumbs: Pure genius!! :clap:

 

[Chupaca]

Nicely done..!!

Sadly no pic's of the trailer...glad you were able to locate the source of your problem. Will help others. Some one should open a section of trouble shooting pages and list these tidbits of information...:thumbup:

 

[szohar]

We would love to see pictures of the trailer.

 

[pellcitypete]

Pics of trailer

We would love to see pictures of the trailer.

LOOK under conversion harness on this form mine looks just like that (exc. for lites mine are LED's):thumbup:

 

[shelbydave]

Nice!!!:thumbup:

 

[Blue Star]

here are the pics. hope they help. The channels are 18" long about 3 1/2" wide just enough to go over trailing arm. there is oblong hole for axel to move up or back for belt adj. hitch arms stick out 5 1/2" with square bar and plates welded on. Pete

Nice, thanks for sharing.