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Of course we are assuming the tanks are stock, we have nothing to tell us otherwise.....
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Now wither he kept the original tins so he could put it back to stock later or just painted the stock tins I don't know and neither does anyone else except him and his painter.
FWIW I still have the original tanks with the OEM paint job on my shelf in the garage.
You might be right about the solenoid but everything I can find in Ronnies or other online microfiche tells me the new starter configuration started in 90.
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Look at the lever just in front of the oil tank, what year was that on...
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As you know the last 2 numbers of the part number are the year that part was introduced.
Then again the MOCO changed something in '94 because starting in '94 the last 2 numbers are 94.
I can't look up 89 or 90 because Ronnies only has sportsters for those years.
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I've never seen a lever like that on any Harley I've looked at.
What was the lever for?
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I`m thinking now... that is an `88 or earlier, because that lever looks like one of the mechanical starter lever set ups that some shovelhead guys use to replace the oem solenoid, look at the spot where the solenoid would go, there is a small square gizmo attached there...
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The changes involved the size of the starter jack shaft assemblies, the diameter of the hole for the starter jack shaft the inner primary cover changed over the years.
I`m thinking now... that is an `88 or earlier, because that lever looks like one of the mechanical starter lever set ups that some shovelhead guys use to replace the oem solenoid, look at the spot where the solenoid would go, there is a small square gizmo attached there...
I`m thinking now... that is an `88 or earlier, because that lever looks like one of the mechanical starter lever set ups that some shovelhead guys use to replace the oem solenoid, look at the spot where the solenoid would go, there is a small square gizmo attached there...
Had to zoom in a lot!!!!!!!!