panshovel?
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No such thing as an original Pan Shovel engine, all pan shovels are back yard models. Pan Heads which were converted to shovel tops, that is what a Pan Shovel is. The early shovels were merely shovels, nothing to do with pans, bottom or otherwise.
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Generator Shovelheads were the last of the original Harley-Davidson's before AMF purchased them.
1966-1969, being the shortest production run of any Big Twin produced.
I have a 1967 FLH, which was the last year of the "hand booster" aka mousetrap clutch, last year of the cast iron oil pump, tombstone speedo face, and left side drum f/brake.
1963-1967 only s/bag rails, and mine was purchased with a center stand also.
Rolled off 14k trouble-free miles in one season years ago.
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1966-1969, being the shortest production run of any Big Twin produced.
I have a 1967 FLH, which was the last year of the "hand booster" aka mousetrap clutch, last year of the cast iron oil pump, tombstone speedo face, and left side drum f/brake.
1963-1967 only s/bag rails, and mine was purchased with a center stand also.
Rolled off 14k trouble-free miles in one season years ago.
Scott
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You are completely off the thread, this post is about Pan Shovels, a Pan Shovel is a pan head which has had the later shovel tops introduced, nothing whatsoever to do with generator shovels. Only a pan head can be a Pan Shovel, pan heads are from 1948 to 65 which is the range of dates possible for a Pan Shovel.
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1966 was the year of what's been nic-named as the "Pan Shovel." Introduction of the Shovel top end on a Pan bottom end. As far as what year yours is I guess you could check the VIN on the engine case. They used generator cases up until 1969 and bikes were titled to the engine because frames had no numbers until 1970 at which time the bikes were titled by the frame numbers. To confuse matters more I think there were a couple of years where the frame and engine numbers didn't match. That caused a few problems. 1970 was also the first year of the cone motors- no more generators. G'luck .
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