jacking up a Roadsmith HTS1800 with a conventional MC jack?

[Wind Therapy]

I was sitting in my garage the other day, enjoying listening to the torrential downpour outside; when I noticed my partially hidden and now neglected Motorcycle Jack. I wasn't ambitious enough to dig it out of the pile it was hiding in to try it on my HTS1800 Roadsmith; but I was wondering if it might be used at the rear of the trike.

Anybody ever try this?

Dave Calahan

[Burnerboy]

Good question here:

I also have a two wheel'd lift that Santa Claus brought to me a few years ago, and really only used it a couple of times (sorry Santa)... BUT now that I have triked out my Goldwing, I've been using a regular three ton jack, that works quite well, I just put jack under engine, and that lifts up my front end , or I place jack under the rear and that lifts up the rear.... In Fact just yesterday I place a wheel chock in front of my front wheel, and lifted up my rear end and washed all under the rear with soap/water, planning on putting her away for the winter season soon.................. Before I do that, I give her a good waxing, all over, especially the chrome areas, call XM radio and cancel out my subscription for the winter season, change out the oil and filter, place a battery tender on the battery leads, put gas stabilizer in gas tank and then pull out my snow skies, and pray for snow!!!

Ronnie

[Wind Therapy]

Hi Ronnie,

I'm just getting over knee replacement surgery (8/13/18); but as soon as I can kneel; I'm gonna try using it under the rear. If it doesn't work, I'll sell it to one of my 2-wheeler buds.

BTW, my trike will get no rest for the foreseeable future. I commute from Fredericksburg, VA to Washington, DC and back, 5-days a week (110 miles round trip), all year 'round (except for snow and ice days, and other weather anomalies). This is my 5th Goldwing since 1998, and I'm well over a 1/2 million safe miles as the result of my weekly commute and 5 1/2 years as Sr. Chapter Director of GWRRA Chapter VA-E, Fredericksburg, VA. I also served 10 years as an MSF Instructor / Rider Coach.

I will try to keep Wind Therapy 5.0 as clean as I can, but she picks up finely ground tire rubber from the millions of cars and trucks that travel I-95 every week, which makes for a filthy undercarriage and crud build-up under the tupperware. I can't seem to keep a respectably shiny front wheel either. But . . . I'd rather be riding than cleaning anyway!

Dave

[bikerbillone]

I run my rear wheels up on car ramps to get to the underside, then lift the front with the jack using a wood buffer between the jack and engine contact point. My GW ground clearance is too low to get the jack and wood buffer under the machine, so I run the front tire up onto a 2x4 to give me clearance. Level the machine if I'm doing an oil change; side note, if you don't level the GW off and just jack up the front, you're facing an overfill, that's common sense, and yet.....duh! Anyway, my question, if just jacking up the rear of the machine, exactly where do you place the jack?

[Burnerboy]

I run my rear wheels up on car ramps to get to the underside, then lift the front with the jack using a wood buffer between the jack and engine contact point. My GW ground clearance is too low to get the jack and wood buffer under the machine, so I run the front tire up onto a 2x4 to give me clearance. Level the machine if I'm doing an oil change; side note, if you don't level the GW off and just jack up the front, you're facing an overfill, that's common sense, and yet.....duh! Anyway, my question, if just jacking up the rear of the machine, exactly where do you place the jack?

My rear is on a jack as we speak...... Look under rear, and see a section that is flat steel, and place jack under the steel......lift's nice and easy

Ronnie

[bikerbillone]

Thanks Ronnie, I'll check, but I have the 1 1/4" slide hitch which came with the conversion, which I think covers the flat metal piece you refer to.

[Roadsmith Trikes]

Jack points are as follows: bottom of shock tower (underneath coil-over shock), main-frame tube (2-1/2 round tube at most forward part of conversion), or the 1/4" steel plate that holds up the back of the differential (area where trailer hitch connects to chassis). Please DO NOT use the drive-shaft or differential retaining bars as jack points.

As in doing any type of work on your trike, please take care to ensure trike is completely secure before performing any maintenance or cleaning. Use of jack stands is highly recommended.

[mhgoldwing]

Jack points are as follows: bottom of shock tower (underneath coil-over shock), main-frame tube (2-1/2 round tube at most forward part of conversion), or the 1/4" steel plate that holds up the back of the differential (area where trailer hitch connects to chassis). Please DO NOT use the drive-shaft or differential retaining bars as jack points.

As in doing any type of work on your trike, please take care to ensure trike is completely secure before performing any maintenance or cleaning. Use of jack stands is highly recommended.

Yep. To remove rear wheels the trike cannot be lifted by the shock tower lift points because that drives the axle up into the fender well and the tire can't be removed with breaking some bodywork. I lift at the 1/4" plate for one side and put jack stands under round tube.

[The Breeze]

What I've been doing is using 3 8x8 wood blocks cut on a long angle and I just drive up on them if I want to get under the bike, once I lifted it up with the receiver hitch but you have to put a small floor jack under one of the shock brackets or it will want to go over on one side [won't do that again] but it was a easy way to take off one tire at a time. Poor man has poor ways.

[Burnerboy]

What I've been doing is using 3 8x8 wood blocks cut on a long angle and I just drive up on them if I want to get under the bike, once I lifted it up with the receiver hitch but you have to put a small floor jack under one of the shock brackets or it will want to go over on one side [won't do that again] but it was a easy way to take off one tire at a time. Poor man has poor ways.

+1 on your idea, I do the same! I also cut six 12inch, 2x10 boards and screwed two boards together, now they are 4inch higher, and place boards under each wheel... now I can work under trike, a bit easier! Ronnie