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Old Jan 26, 2023 | 10:17 AM
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Here's a picture of the street glide/road glide conversion I just finished up. Took about a month or so to scramble OEM parts off of EBay Aand other local classified sites such as Craigslist and Facebook marketplace. Total price was under $2500 would've been cheaper if I would've just left the inner fairing and top duct the matte black. Price to paint the two vivid black was $280 including doors. Only after market parts on bike are just the speaker pods. Other then that 99% of the front end are OEM. It was a fun and challenging swap. Just a few wires to extend which were the signal lights and speedometer harness. Other then that the hardest part was finding original parts.

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Nice job.
 
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Waiting for someone to slam you for using a Craftsman jack, Lol!! Nice work.
 
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Waiting for someone to slam you for using a Craftsman jack, Lol!! Nice work.
lol man it was free.
 
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Old Jan 26, 2023 | 01:32 PM
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very cool!! love it!
 
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Old Jan 26, 2023 | 01:35 PM
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Dude... why are you doing this to me? It's something that I want to do....

Can you tell more about the process? What was challenging?
 
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Old Jan 26, 2023 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Hammerhead Pat
Waiting for someone to slam you for using a Craftsman jack, Lol!! Nice work.
My first thought was: "What, no J & S jack?!"

Nice job and it sounds like it was a fun project!
 
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lol man it was free.
About 10 yrs ago someone on here said Lowes had their Kobalt jacks reduced down to nothing so I went down and grabbed one for $35. It's been fantastic!!!
 
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Nice job, now you can go back and forth, would like to see different angle pictures.
 
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