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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle
You are a brave man and a true survivor, I never got over those banana peels.
mud

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ORIGINAL: Citoriplus

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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle
You are a brave man and a true survivor, I never got over those banana peels.
mud

Banana peels? Were those the same banana peels that were baked wrapped around Teaberry gum?

I know I lived through the 60's as a teenager, but a lot of my memories of the era are still a little fuzzy.

Frank

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ORIGINAL: XKROME

i think i'm going to do this on the forks between the triple trees after i put the gators on also. get rid of a little more shiny just blackened my Vance n Hines strait shots with BBQ paint and they took bad a$$, the OL sez "it looks like she's been juicing and put on 50 lbs o muscle," i'll get some pix tomorrow.


has any one ever dulled up their aluminum? I kinda like the brushed look and would be interested in a "how to"


 

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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle
Frank, I just looked at your profile.

I'm twelve daze older than you.

mud

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ORIGINAL: Citoriplus

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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle
Frank, I just looked at your profile.

I'm twelve daze older than you.

mud

With "DAZE" being the operative word.
And Happy Birthday, in advance, to both of us.




Bet you got ripped off with Birthday/Christmas presents when you were a kid too.

Frank

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ORIGINAL: Citoriplus

Mud,

Where did you get the "catch can" for that?

BTW its a neat trick, but why not use a breather filter like this one?

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ORIGINAL: x2lee

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the thing I like abvout this on is the spike cooming out of the front of the cone.

I want to add a spike like that one to the front of my filter.

I am sure theres not a spike out there with a self tapping screw in it

and I dont think the k&n filter comes apart so


I am just looking for some suggestions on a easy way to accomplish this... Thanks!

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ORIGINAL: Nightrider2

DUCT TAPE HARD BAGS!! Ok, take 2 cardboard boxes of the appropriate size, now, you can make the loooooooong , loooooooow style, standard style, whatever style you want, apply the duct tape generously , THEN, paint them the color you like, along with flames, airbrush different things on them to "personalize" them to your bike. Price, probably about 6-8 dollars, the looks and comment's [not compliments] you will get , well, they will be PRICELESS

07 Dyna

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DUCT TAPE HARD BAGS

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ORIGINAL: Citoriplus

x2lee,
This may sound a bit odd, but bare with me a minute.

Go down to the nearest Home Depot or Lowes and check out the selection of door stops.
Not the spring kind the old fashioned solid ones with the rubber bumper on the end.
Most of them have a built in wood screw in the base but if your lucky you can find one that has a machine screw that you screw a double ended wood/macine screw into. If you can find one grab it, if not you can still use the \\;wood screw version. Its just a little harder.

Take the stop home and get your trusty drill and put it in a vise. Chuck the stop into it by the screw end and you have a cheap lathe. Turn the drill on and lock it so it keeps running and use some files and a sanding block to reshape the length of the shaft and end to the desired shape.
Its going to take some time and patience, but the end product will be worth it. Cause you did it yourself.

Once its done you can use some polishing compound on some cloth backed by a piece of wood to smooth and shine things up.

Put several light layers of clear over it or paint it to match the bike and your done.

Mounting it should be easy. Take the filter off and you should be able to see in the back or carb end all the way to the front. Take the filter and mark the center of the end and drill a small hole. If you have the stop with the machine screw threads in it drill the hole to the screws size and just use a long screwdriver to put the right size screw and washer with some RED Lock-Tite on it, so the damn thing doesn''t come loose and get sucked into the engine.

An important note here is \\;that once you have drilled the hole, make sure that you get ANY and ALL of the \\;shavings out of the inside of the filter.

If you have the kind with a wood screw put a little bit of JB Weld or Gorilla glue under the base and screw it into the hole. Let it sit overnight and you should be able to reinstall the filter \\;in 24 hours.

Hope that works for you.

Ride Safe
Frank

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ORIGINAL: x2lee

Thanks for the replies and ideas, this one below was really original. As Mud said I am able to get to the backside of the filter when its removed. I found this: \\; \\; \\; on ebay for \\;5 bucks. When it arrives im going to drill out the billet on the front of the filter and \\;from there it sounds like a simple 30 min mod.
I will be careful to make sure I get all the shavings out also. \\;Just drill, clean, locktite, and screw...
Thanks for the help.

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ORIGINAL: Citoriplus

x2lee,
This may sound a bit odd, but bare with me a minute.

Go down to the nearest Home Depot or Lowes and check out the selection of door stops.
Not the spring kind the old fashioned solid ones with the rubber bumper on the end.
Most of them have a built in wood screw in the base but if your lucky you can find one that has a machine screw that you screw a double ended wood/macine screw into. If you can find one grab it, if not you can still use the \\;wood screw version. Its just a little harder.

Take the stop home and get your trusty drill and put it in a vise. Chuck the stop into it by the screw end and you have a cheap lathe. Turn the drill on and lock it so it keeps running and use some files and a sanding block to reshape the length of the shaft and end to the desired shape.
Its going to take some time and patience, but the end product will be worth it. Cause you did it yourself.

Once its done you can use some polishing compound on some cloth backed by a piece of wood to smooth and shine things up.

Put several light layers of clear over it or paint it to match the bike and your done.

Mounting it should be easy. Take the filter off and you should be able to see in the back or carb end all the way to the front. Take the filter and mark the center of the end and drill a small hole. If you have the stop with the machine screw threads in it drill the hole to the screws size and just use a long screwdriver to put the right size screw and washer with some RED Lock-Tite on it, so the damn thing doesn''t come loose and get sucked into the engine.

An important note here is \\;that once you have drilled the hole, make sure that you get ANY and ALL of the \\;shavings out of the inside of the filter.

If you have the kind with a wood screw put a little bit of JB Weld or Gorilla glue under the base and screw it into the hole. Let it sit overnight and you should be able to reinstall the filter \\;in 24 hours.

Hope that works for you.

Ride Safe
Frank

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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle

thomas, looks like you are on the right track.

I may consider a different head configuration for the screw.
Maybe not.
RED loctite, for sure.

mud

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ORIGINAL: Citoriplus

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ORIGINAL: mudpuddle

thomas, looks like you are on the right track.

I may consider a different head configuration for the screw.
Maybe not.
RED loctite, for sure.

mud

I hadn't thought of something like that, and your right mud. that countersunk screw has to go.
Best bet would be to find an allen bolt that has the same thread size and use that with a washer the same size as or larger than the bottom part (fender washer?) of the spike to spread the loading.

I would have tried for one without the "pinched" bottom part. That one looks a little too much like some kind of sex toy for my taste.

I guess you can always cut it down to eliminate that part after drilling a small pilot hole that goes past the cut line. With the pilot hole you can easily drill it for any size bolt you want that's centered, the bigger the better, and run a tap into it.