where did you find the your ac breather brackets and breather bolts

 

I can't remember where I got mine. But did a quick web search and found this one. It looks identical to the one I used. As I recall I paid about $80 for mine so I'm guessing this is the same bracket.
http://www.bikerparts-superstore.com...FQ0GnQodxB4A6w

Another one on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CARBerator-A...3668%26ps%3D54

 

why air filter do you use

 

I bought a K&N filter, but you can use a 4" round automotive filter from Autozone or any auto parts store.

 

2008 with the fender ECM hole filled. Just needs clear now.

 

Looks good man.

 

Spent a few hours in the shop this afternoon. With Ozzie's help I finally got the lower stabilizer link replaced. We ended up chopping a 7/32 allen wrench down so that it would fit in the bolt closest to the cylinder and simply removed the bad link. Left the mount with the bolt with the stripped head attached to the frame...it ain't going anywhere. If I ever need to take that mount off I'll deal with the stripped head at that point. For now, no one can tell the button head is stripped.

After that I wanted to get it fired up and run it for a while. The Alien Motion LiFe battery I originally bought went back to them when it died in October. They said it had a bad bank of cells and they replaced it. I also bought their battery charger/conditioner to keep it topped off over the winter and that's been hooked up to it since about December. Pulled the charger off today, rolled the bike outside and hit the start button. The battery wouldn't even turn the motor once. Grrrrr. So I pull the battery out to send it back to them and I notice this on the bottom of the battery:



Now I'm really pissed. I don't know when this happened, whether it happened sometime over the last month as a result of their charger/conditioner or whether it happened today when I tried to start it. Either way, the damn thing looks like it was seriously close to phucking up my bike. It will be interesting to see what they say and I will post their response.

I still really wanted to run the bike for a few minutes. My old Harley battery has been sitting around the shop since the beginning of the makeover, more than a year ago now. No tender, no charger. I got the Alien Motion battery mostly because of it's size. The internal wiring dumping out in the battery compartment has really made things crowded in there and I didn't think the stock battery would fit. But I got a shoehorn out and worked at it for about 15 minutes and I finally got it in there. Really tight fit but it works. Rolled it outside and one crank later she was purring like a kitten. I am amazed that old stock battery fired her up without breaking a sweat. And it was almost warm enough here today to go for a spin...spring can't come soon enough.

 

Just found your thread, spent 1/2 hr on it and hardly scratched the surface. 1st of all, excellent frigg'in work my friend! But two suggestions, 1. I cringe when I see pics of your bike precariously balanced on your jack. I left mine in that position about a week not knowing air was slowly leaking from the stand and finally one morning I found my bike laying (thank God) up against my workbench. I can't imagine what kind of damage would have occurred had it fell completely on it's side. 2. I always dug the Nightster's 2-tone paint jobs. With all the custom work you've done it might be cool to just keep the stock paint. This way the harder people look at it the more they see!
Keep up the good work. BTW, I will be going back to pick up reading where I left off, hope I"m not out of time or being redundant doing it this way.

 

Thanks rquest. 1/2 hour huh? You have a lot more reading to do.

I hear you about the jackstand. I never left it that way when I wasn't working on it. Usually I had it either tied down to the jack or suspended from the rafters. The jack I have has a solid locking mechanism that prevents it from collapsing, even if the hydraulic jack leaks but with all the people in and out of the shop I never left it just sitting on the jack without some kind of safety. Ya, I did work on it occasionally without a tie down. Fortunately, I didn't have a problem.

I wanted the paint to be close to the Nightster original but different enough to be noticeable. I wanted the line between orange and black on the tank to be more horizontal than stock to give the bike an illusion of being lower. So I gave it more orange in the front and less at the back. I took a lot of time trying to get the "Zombie Apocalypse" lettering on the tank to look like the old "Harley Davidson", same font and layout...though I think the size is slightly larger now. I didn't like the original rear fender being all orange and I really like the black and orange mix back there. I think it flows better than the all orange fender. Overall I couldn't be happier with it.

 

ERGONITR! this is my forth nite reading to page 90 amazing stuff you an youre son inlaw are doing, im usually on the touring side, but was looking for something diff to do, an found youre thread you guys should be proud man good luck an hope you get to ride before winter, i subscribed an got youre new post and opend it and closed it right away, dont want to spoil it cant wait to catch up, and see the big finish i kmow youll be smiln goin out the driive on youre new virgin enjoy. bud