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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2021, 10:51:34 AM »
Looks a well thought out unit. How solid is it just bolted to the tow hitch, would it take the shock of a big pothole. 
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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2021, 11:53:29 AM »
Many moons ago when I had a caravan the tow hitch weight limit was 75kg.

How does this work then Chris?


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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2021, 12:00:53 PM »
Looks a well thought out unit. How solid is it just bolted to the tow hitch, would it take the shock of a big pothole.
Ratchet straps on the ends of the platform take out the bit of side wag. Potholes are no bother as I have also put air suspension on the van so i can compensate for the load. The one to watch out for are speed humps as they can flick the bike an unbelievable amount, so much once in Scotland I missed one and it flicked the 400SF so much it hit the tank on the lift post knocking a lump of paint off. I have since altered it again to stop this happening. The basic hydraulic Easylifter was a good start point but that's all. They also do a Hydra trail which has swivel castor wheels that a lot rave about but I simply don't like the design from a engineering point of view. There have been reports of weld failures on the wheel area and premature wheel bearing failures, neither of which surprises me looking at the design. It's not something you could do with all vans as you can easily be above axle loads and weight limits.

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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #18 on: April 11, 2021, 12:04:33 PM »
Air ride, "potholes" what potholes. Lovely.
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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #19 on: April 11, 2021, 12:17:11 PM »
Many moons ago when I had a caravan the tow hitch weight limit was 75kg.

How does this work then Chris?


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The weight is not carried on the ball the ball is only a means of location, there is a sub mounting plate that carries the weight. Factory rating on the lift is 200kg. My rear axle is Max 2000kg with van fully loaded and 750 Kawasaki on the back axle loading is 1860 kg.

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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2021, 05:44:09 PM »
Took a whole weekend to clean the lousy gold paint off the calipers to get to the stock finish,i blackened them with a Zebo type product, had a couple of shake down run, all going well, for a clean up it has turned out the usual way, as we all know Not cheap.
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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2021, 06:01:39 PM »
That looks great, a vast improvement.
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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2021, 09:37:45 PM »

 Just had to put a starter sprag clutch on ours as it was locking up solid and sounded horrendous when trying to start it.

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Re: Superfour clean up
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2021, 05:19:15 PM »
Took her for a 30 mile blat today and it went really well, rear shocks are not damping at all well, RFY's and weeping a bit of oil so it will be new YSS ones soon. taken up at the Wash.
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