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Accessories: TravelTrailer
Your Trailer Parts
If you purchased a Travel
Trailer with your bike, you
should have two trailer
wheels and two yellow felt
bags with the tongue and
axle. The bottom of your
TravelCase should have
three holes drilled in it if
you ordered the trailer with
your bike. If you ordered the
TravelTrailer system sepa-
rately, you will need to find the three dimple marks in the bottom
of your case and drill them through with a ¼" drill. Please note
the hole for the tongue (in contrast to the two holes for the wheel
axle) is offset slightly. The reason for this is for the telescoping
handle. There is a cable running down the center inside the alu-
minum tunnel; offsetting the bolt allows the bolt for the trailer
to pass through the aluminum tunnel without striking the cable.
Remove Thumb Nuts
Remove the parts out of the felt
bags and remove the thumb nuts
and one of the washers from each
of the three threaded bolts (leav-
ing one washer over each stud
post).
Install the Trailer Tongue
Turn the TravelCase upside
down (while closed). Slip
the hollow end of the tongue
over the end of the T-piece.
Take the trailer tongue and
insert its bolt through the
corresponding hole on the
travel case (through the alu-
minum tunnel). Note: The
gentle curve in the tongue is
located on the same side as
the side latch.
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Fig. 59 Trailer parts.
Fig. 60 Trailer thumb nuts.
Fig. 61 Install the trailer tongue.
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Connect the Axles
Slip the open ends of the
axles over the "T" of the
T-piece. Each axle will have
a threaded bolt with a thumb
nut and a flat washer. Pass
the threaded bolts through
the holes on the case.
Add the Thumb Nuts
Carefully stand up the case
and open it. Inside the case,
place one flat washer and
one thumb nut over each
threaded bolt and tighten
them.
Wheel Axles
Remove the clevis pin and
bolt from the socket of each
end of the axle.
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Fig. 62 Connect the axles.
THUMB NUTS
Fig. 63 Add thumb nuts.
Fig. 64 Axle Bolts.
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