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I've been searching around for a few of weeks now for a set of Buckhorns for my 2013 Street Bob.. Did I say I love Buckhorns???.. I have a pair of OEM on my 98 Fatboy.. There are a lot of old school horns out there but none that I can find are 10" like the oem bars that came on the bike... Nore are they machined for internal wiring.. So I am going to attempt to heat and bend my stock bars into an old school pair of Buckhorns... They're Chrome right now but I have a feeling by the time I'm done they will be Black.. No big deal though because there is a lof black on my bike so it should look pretty good... The one thing that made it Sooooooo much easier was the Goodrich 1/4" fuel quick disconnect for the cross over that came today... Installed it in minutes and the process to move the tank to get to the wiring for the controls was a piece of cake... I'm not cheap.. I just can't find the bars I like.. So bars are off and the next step is the bending... So far I have 1.3 hours into the process... I will say this, for all you 2013 Street Bob owners that are looking to put higher Apes on.. It won't be an issue.. I couldn't believe how much extra wiring and cables there are to go 6" over...
Last edited by 98hotrodfatboy; Feb 18, 2021 at 04:49 PM.
So I used a torch to heat them up and bend them to what I could to reasonable replicate OEM's.. They came out pretty nice but I left my phone home today so I'll have to post up a pic later.. Turns out though they're Stainless. I took a magnet to them and no stick.. Are there any precautions I need to take to paint them a semi gloss black? I will prime them first.. Thanks..
So what I did was grabbed a couple pieces of 2x4 to use as my clamping force in the vise on the welding table and measured each end of the bars to the ground, making sure the bars were true and level... I also measured the width and end at 31 and a half inches.. Then I measured from the center line of the bars to each end to make sure they were identical as well and came up with 18 in there in the stock form... The first thing I wanted to do was close in on the spread.. I figured that would be the easiest, so I got my torches out got the stainless all nice and rose buddy red and put a price of 1" black pipe over the end of the bar and slowly twisted it in.. It worked rather well...
I did the right one first which was the first time I ever did this and did not stabilize it the way I should have so there's a slight defect in the bend on the right hand riser because of... On the left riser I learned how to stabilize it and just truly twist it in nicely without bending anything... After I got the spread set then I went to turn down the buckhorn and I was able to get them down to a 15-in line from center.. I moved them 3-in down and also moved them 6" narrower.. I'm going to take them to powder coat tonight.. hopefully will be back by Wednesday.. They really did come out as good as I was hoping they would.. They are level and each drop where the grips are, are right in line with each other... It came out quite nice I thought... One more thing I thought you should know I used a bench grinder wire wheel to remove all the heat marks from the torches and then I used a hand grinder with wire wheel to finish it up and then with 80 grit sandpaper clean the rest of it. From there it goes to powder coat...
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