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Old 09-22-2009, 09:39 AM   #854 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MPaulHolmes View Post
The Kayaks match your car! Did you do that on purpose?
No... weird, eh? I don't usually try to colour coordinate my vehicles.

The kayak definitely doesn't match the bike:



( I thought I needed the car to pull a boat... )

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Originally Posted by vpoppv View Post
Are you running 13" wheels/tires? Also, since I have the spare booster from the parts car, I'm going to go ahead and puncture the diaphragm....
Yes, running 13 inch wheels on the car.

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will eat up a ton of amps if not regulated. The ones i worked on were OLD and had an analog card in the brain box that regulated amp draw to around 500 on takeoff... BE CAREFUL!!!!!

What model baker was it? B-30 only has one hydraulic motor if i remember right.
maybe B-50????
It's regulated - through a golf cart motor controller.

The motor came from this:



mid-1980's Baker FTD-110 forklift
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