'72 project jam
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RE: '72 project jam
Not sure how yours goes, I will check mine a little closer and see if I can figure yours out, I see what you mean, It don't look right. How does it show up in your manual? What manual's do you have?
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RE: '72 project jam
What you need are (two) tubular spacers that will fit between the brackets after they are bolted to the crankcase. Just bolt them on and measure this distance. Get you some 1/4 inch water pipe or some such tubing and cut to length. The bolts are run thru the frame lugs, tubing spacers, and the brackets and one is going to hold the front exhaust pipe bracket. No rocket science here. Yours look too short to span this gap and perhaps someone cut them?
Someone earlier made a comment about mis-allignment of the intake manifold and suggest loosening the head bolts to rotate the heads for a better allignment. WRONG! Leave the heads bolted up tight. What you want to loosen is the cylinder base bolts (4 on each cylinder) and rotate each cylinder to get the best allignment then tighten the base bolts. This is per HD manual. Again, just follow the instructions in the HD manual, throw the Clymers in the can. Most Clymers are written to cover models 1901 to present and horse power range from 1 to 100. In otherwords, Clymer is way too general.
Someone earlier made a comment about mis-allignment of the intake manifold and suggest loosening the head bolts to rotate the heads for a better allignment. WRONG! Leave the heads bolted up tight. What you want to loosen is the cylinder base bolts (4 on each cylinder) and rotate each cylinder to get the best allignment then tighten the base bolts. This is per HD manual. Again, just follow the instructions in the HD manual, throw the Clymers in the can. Most Clymers are written to cover models 1901 to present and horse power range from 1 to 100. In otherwords, Clymer is way too general.
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