alright EVO people, its been awhile, wintertime kicked my *** for awhile until I got a propane heater so I could work on this bike. I recommend this if you have to work in the cold,,, **** that hahahaha great little heater and it runs on dewalt tool battery's.


when I left off and stopped working on this because of the cold I was starting the front end work. I got it about 90% done now

rim, caliper, fender, and sliders were a 3 day polishing from hell session. rim came out damn near perfect and caliper not far behind it. but while the sliders look good the pitting cause micro flaking so they will need to be replaced or powder coat at a later date. forks gone through new everything with progressive springs set at stock height. new tins, headlight, and turn signals. 6 inch risers with T-bar and new controls on both ends or the bar.





HAHAHAHA these are the old beach bars that were on it. why in gods name would anyone do that to a Fatboy is without reason HAHAHAHA

so while I'm in holding pattern for more parts I started on the rearend. I adjusted the shocks and got it lifted higher and will leave the stock shocks on there for now. I got the tire off with much cusing and tools launched across the back yard, hahaha then it got much worse, I could not break free the brake rotor screws, I had to take a torch to them and heat them up and still had knuckle busters to get them loose. one of them about screwed up the hub threads while it was coming out. don't know if it was some kind of super loctite or what but that one damn screw was a bitch to the last thread. heres the screw, you can see the last few threads are ate up and it dragged through the threads coming out. I took a few of the good screw and oiled them up and ran them through that hole a few times and it did clean up the thread a little. hoping its enough for new screws and rotor. and to top it off I when JP's to order the rear rotor and the matching one for my front is out of stock..............****. they are out of stock everywhere I went to... ****!! guess they are not gonna match for a while cause I want to ride hahaha.

rocker covers are trashed on top. i'll polish them as best as I can but they need to be replaced or rechromed.



rear caliper chrome is gone along with the side mount plate bracket. needs refinishing




rear rim is not bad but nowhere near good. whats it gonna cost me to get rims refinished next year????? belt pulley looks to be in great shape..





and of coarse the joys of wire!!!!!!!!

 

Yes you have a project going, polishing is hard work/high rewards and gauged on how much grit you have in your teeth when done. Keep going, you have our attention.

 

l also have some polishing to do, and now I'm not looking forward to it that much haha.... What's the best stuff to use when doing this sort of polishing and best method?
Thanks in advance.

Looking real nice by the way gonzosc1.... very shiny. 👍

 

There are many ways to do polish the aluminum, here's what I did.

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/gener...with-pics.html

 

polishing the chrome out on this project just a mix of muscle and mechanical. I used two different polishes, the first was a silver polish thats used for silverware lol. it was a thick brown liquid almost like watery clay. used this with a dremle for all the small places, bends and curves in the rims and the calipers. then used a 7" wool buffing pad and some 2" buffing ***** on a cordless drill for the big flat parts on the rim. then for the final I used the mothers power cone and mother chrome polish. if you don't have pitting or years of build up on the chrome just wash the **** out of it and try the mother chrome polish, the power cone or the power ball are easy to use as long as theres no pitting.

 

Not sure of your year model but I believe 87-92 Softail models used #43567-79 for those bolts. If so here is a link on the flea

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Harley-Davi...oAAOSwxO5c8TaI

Nicel looking project you have going.

 

this is a 98 fatboy...

 

those do look the same as what came off the rotor.

 

Went to www.serviceinfo.harley-davidson.com and pulled up the diagram for the rear wheel They show part # 43567-92 for all 92 and up FLT/FXR/Softail and Dyna Models.

In the 91-92 Parts catalog they show the same listing as above . In the same heading for the screws (#31)they also show #43567-79 for FXR/ Softail/Dynal Models and listr it a 91 and up.

Might be the same screw (or not). Sometime HD just updated the part number (same screw type) because it was something as simple as chrome plated finish versus a zince plated finish.

 

I need to get some of those. JP doesn't even sell them countersunk bolts. not sure who made the rims on this project, I got it on trade. maybe PM, as there are other PM parts on the bike. seems most rear rotors I look at have the countersunk mount holes just on the rear rotor, all the front rotors have flush mount holes. oh well, I have a lot to learn as this is my first HD project. been wrenching on jap bike for awhile. this is all new for me hahaha