101 Harley-Davidson Performance Projects: For Evolution Big Twins and Sportsters - Kenna Love, Kip Woodring - Google Books
Came across this today while surfing in the 101 Harley Performance Projects book on Google while looking into the "Hayden Oil Fix". There's a pic on the second page if you scroll down in the pdf.
One of my winter projects is also going to be to fix a minor base gasket weep. Yes I know proper warmup reduces the likelyhood of developing them but I think it's a more prevelant problem up here in the northeast due to the extreme temperature swings. I could live with the minor weep, but I'm just downright picky and like my bike to present well no matter where I take it or park it. A future owner would certainly appreciate my compulsion for things being perfect.
There's times I leave for work in the early mornings and it's downright cold like 40-45 degrees. My Big Radius's aren't exactly the things my neighbors want to hear at 4:30 am so I usually never get a chance to let it sit there for the required warm up time I would like. I do however baby it when I get on the road until the motor warms up nicely never, ever twisting the wick till I feel it's up to temp.
Now, onto the real meat and potatoes of the post....has anyone ever tried this method of removing the rocker boxes and the cylinder bolts and taking it all off together...... heads, carb and pipes? Of couse disconnecting everything else like cables, fuel line, exhaust to frame bracket etc.
Seems like a neat shortcut I may try even though I've got a solid 2+ months to get it all done before the color and temps start to reappear up here in Connecticut. I could take my time piece by piece and savor the work but i've been there done that a bunch of times before. I just never really thought about this method/tip before.
This would also save having to get new intake and exhaust seals although they came in the Cometic Top End kit I just picked up. I could save the intake seals for one of those pesky intake leaks that rears it's ugly head from time to time on these early Evo's.
Just wonderin' outloud..............
Came across this today while surfing in the 101 Harley Performance Projects book on Google while looking into the "Hayden Oil Fix". There's a pic on the second page if you scroll down in the pdf.
One of my winter projects is also going to be to fix a minor base gasket weep. Yes I know proper warmup reduces the likelyhood of developing them but I think it's a more prevelant problem up here in the northeast due to the extreme temperature swings. I could live with the minor weep, but I'm just downright picky and like my bike to present well no matter where I take it or park it. A future owner would certainly appreciate my compulsion for things being perfect.
There's times I leave for work in the early mornings and it's downright cold like 40-45 degrees. My Big Radius's aren't exactly the things my neighbors want to hear at 4:30 am so I usually never get a chance to let it sit there for the required warm up time I would like. I do however baby it when I get on the road until the motor warms up nicely never, ever twisting the wick till I feel it's up to temp.
Now, onto the real meat and potatoes of the post....has anyone ever tried this method of removing the rocker boxes and the cylinder bolts and taking it all off together...... heads, carb and pipes? Of couse disconnecting everything else like cables, fuel line, exhaust to frame bracket etc.
Seems like a neat shortcut I may try even though I've got a solid 2+ months to get it all done before the color and temps start to reappear up here in Connecticut. I could take my time piece by piece and savor the work but i've been there done that a bunch of times before. I just never really thought about this method/tip before.
This would also save having to get new intake and exhaust seals although they came in the Cometic Top End kit I just picked up. I could save the intake seals for one of those pesky intake leaks that rears it's ugly head from time to time on these early Evo's.
Just wonderin' outloud..............