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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 06:49 PM
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Tell you what, If I ever pull my jugs, I'm blacking them out. Love the look of the blacked out jugs, really makes the chrome heads, tubes and air cleaner cover...POP!! Probably does the same for the left side of the heads and the cowbell.
 

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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by harleycharlie1992
pull the cylinders and send heads and jugs to Diamond heads, They won't ever get ugly again and really add some good looks to the motor. And while there, you can at least put in a thinner head gasket, and bump up the compression a tad. Will run a little better, especially if you get it tuned, or a download. Even the exhaust will sound a little different
I wouldn't send my jugs to them if you paid for them to do the work and threw in a little something extra for me.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 09:31 PM
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Jewelers rouge or flitz and lots of elbow grease... get to work, or do what I and everyone else does who actually rides their motorcycle and wear it with a badge of honor. My bike looks like **** and I like it that way.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 09:32 PM
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Just use 240 emery cloth folded so it's stiff. What I also use to polish my back wheel. However just looking at your picture, mine did not look that good when new.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by skratch
I wouldn't send my jugs to them if you paid for them to do the work and threw in a little something extra for me.
I've used them dozens of times, work is excellent, and they really make the bike look extra good. I have them on my bike, and my last two, plus a lot of the people whose bikes I work on have them too. I take it you don't like the look?
 
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Old Mar 22, 2016 | 06:42 AM
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no, it isn't the look that i mind so much. though it is a little too blingy for me. i just take exception to the way that they went about taking a process that people have been doing for years and somehow managing to wrangle a patent for it and effectively putting a bunch of people out of business.
 
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Old Mar 23, 2016 | 11:27 PM
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if they are just dirty.. use some cleaner like Simple green on them and wipe them off...
 
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