Rumors Confirmed.
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Rumors Confirmed.
Here is a secret spy photo obtained from H-D,R and D headquaters,It is very apperant that this is an actuall road test of the newest water cooled touring bikes.By the looks of this all HD's will in fact be watercooled as soon as all the bugs are worked out....
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I did some of that today myself. Beautiful day but a little windy so I made a 50 mile trip to a neighboring town to get some "blue" wheel bearing grease and turned it into a 200 mile excursion. 6 miles from the shed it turned black, then rain and penny size hail and no where to stop then 3 miles out in school traffic it shut off 
Started back after a couple and made it in. Was running sorta OK by then but I grabbed a bottle of windex and sprayed up under the front of the tank and that killed it. So, I got a loose wire on the coil, bad plug wire or something I'll deal with tomorrow. Too wet and cold to pull the tank today. Glad I wasn't in Cuba, New Mexico and late for a date...
Started back after a couple and made it in. Was running sorta OK by then but I grabbed a bottle of windex and sprayed up under the front of the tank and that killed it. So, I got a loose wire on the coil, bad plug wire or something I'll deal with tomorrow. Too wet and cold to pull the tank today. Glad I wasn't in Cuba, New Mexico and late for a date...
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From: Pantego,NC.
I did some of that today myself. Beautiful day but a little windy so I made a 50 mile trip to a neighboring town to get some "blue" wheel bearing grease and turned it into a 200 mile excursion. 6 miles from the shed it turned black, then rain and penny size hail and no where to stop then 3 miles out in school traffic it shut off
Started back after a couple and made it in. Was running sorta OK by then but I grabbed a bottle of windex and sprayed up under the front of the tank and that killed it. So, I got a loose wire on the coil, bad plug wire or something I'll deal with tomorrow. Too wet and cold to pull the tank today. Glad I wasn't in Cuba, New Mexico and late for a date...
Started back after a couple and made it in. Was running sorta OK by then but I grabbed a bottle of windex and sprayed up under the front of the tank and that killed it. So, I got a loose wire on the coil, bad plug wire or something I'll deal with tomorrow. Too wet and cold to pull the tank today. Glad I wasn't in Cuba, New Mexico and late for a date...
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So pulling the seat, draining the gas and pulling the FLT tank just really doesn't bother me much. I'm just glad I was only 3 miles out and that it did start back before a school bus or mini-van wiped me out on the side of the road. It was near full of fuel and I had no place to drain it or enough vise grips to cheat... and the hail was about bad enough I was going to pull my coat off to lay over the tank if it hadn't fired when it did.
I'll get it tidy up tomorrow... may change cams again too, just got another free "experimental" one in the mail today
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Mine was liquid cooled a few times but it's a pain in the a$$ ...i wash it 3 times a year...Freakin NC bugs are a mess to get out of the nooks n crannys so i leave them there until i have a good collection...Clean the windshield...Pantego NC ...just down the road from Here...
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Man, I haven't had to try this trick yet, but I read that 50% water and 50% hydrogen peroxide will get bugs off your windshield (I got this scoot this fall; my first Herry) - so I imagine it might soften them up to remove from your water buffalo radiator.
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another trick
Soak a towel in hot hot water and lay it on the windshield it will loosen up the bugs with out scratching up the shield.