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Gonna be taking it apart this weekend. Frame/engine serial matches. Ordered a flat bar and some controls. Gonna rewire, recable and bleed the brakes this weekend as well. The chain is all surface rust...it actually moves really well....somehow.
Anything I should know when doing the aforementioned? thanks for all the comments and input, it's much appreciated.
IDK about that- show me one with those tires please.
I have a 74 stock, since 77, never heard such a thing -especially with a tight fit front [original] fender. [not the one on that bike]
Originally Posted by rhino1250
Nope you could still get it with offroad tires past 77
Pics??
Do you mean the squared off "tractor" tire that was stock many years.
Last edited by ChickinOnaChain; May 26, 2018 at 06:05 PM.
IDK about that- show me one with those tires please.
I have a 74 stock, since 77, never heard such a thing -especially with a tight fit front [original] fender. [not the one on that bike]
I do here's a pic of a factory 77ch from the factory with a somewhat knobby back tire, earlier versions had ***** on front and rear
Got around to messing with it again today. Bought a brand new battery. Put in new plugs. The screaming Eagles in them were gapped to .25, but everything I read on these forums said gap to .40, so the new plugs are gapped to that. Drained the tank. Put in some fresh oil and some fresh gas. Also replaced the hoses to carb with an inline filter.
The wiring on it is pretty bad. We found out the headlight actually worked but there are some crossed wires somewhere as the ignition toggle switch we wired up (because I have no keys) would only give either the headlight or taillight power, never both.
I cant get power to the cylinders as theres no current going to the plugs. The wire on the right side of the coil only has a little current going to it, so that wire is degraded somewhere. We also cant seem to get power to the points, which looked good, which we think is from the degraded wire at the coil.
For giggles we took some Nevr-Dull to the oil tank, a piece of the head, and to one of the fishtails. Literally 5 seconds of work and it polished up like a mirror.
Going to rip all the wires out tomorrow and run the main/necessary wires (battery, coil, generator, points) to run to try to get it to turn over. Once we get it to turn over, THEN well run all the accessory wires and make it all nicely tucked away. Fingers crossed it turns over tomorrow once those wires are run.
Last edited by Nate.Evans; Apr 22, 2018 at 06:24 PM.
Nice bike with a lot of potential. General consensus says try to keep it original as possible as they really are more desirable than someone else version of "old school" when you already have the real deal
The bad - Right now these bikes aren't worth much. I bought a 77 for $1600 not long ago that ran ok. Lost interest and sold it for about that.
The good - I believe they are under valued and will go up in price. They have that cool old Harley sound unlike today's bikes. And they look old school too. I would get it as close to stock as possible.
In the end it should be a fun around town bike that will draw attention at the gas pump. You'll get sick of hearing "I had one of those back in the day....."
For giggles we took some Nevr-Dull to the oil tank, a piece of the head, and to one of the fishtails. Literally 5 seconds of work and it polished up like a mirror.
... and he was never seen again after getting the idea that polishing ALL the chrome on an old Sportster would be a good idea .
i vote for keeping the paint as is , i like it a lot .
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