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Greetings from Edmonton, AB. Bought a project. Found this forum. '87 Evo Heritage Classic. Have owned pretty much every other brand and love to work on my own bikes. I know absolutely nothing about these iconic units but eager to learn and want to do things right. The bike I picked up has been sitting for 5 years. Went through the normal process spark, compression and fuel. got it running within a day and thought alright lets dive in.
First there was no oil in the oil tank, being a dry sump I thought that oil must be sitting in the sump. while testing for spark I cycled the engine a number of times to check oil return to the tank. awesome it was filling up plus I had good spark. I had to get some supplies for the fuel tank clean out and when I came back there was about a litre of oil on my work bench. crank case breather that was located right side in front of tire puked it out. I am surprised that these engines are bottom venting. I am going to search this forum on that. hopefully there is a way to manage that. Otherwise the bike just needs lots of love and new parts and a good service. Going to take some stuff off and add some more current items like LED lighting. Should take up lots of my time and make winter go by fast... Cheers!!!
Welcome from Spartan Country, Michigan! I tell a lot of new comers to the forum to get: Factory Service manual and the Parts manual. Take to an office supply store and have them put a spiral binder in place of the glued binder. That will let the manuals lay flat on your bench. Get a three ring binder and record all your maintenance, repairs, accessories, etc. This will be a great reminder of what was done when. And great material to pass along to the new owner should you sell and upgrade. Also know how large your fuel tank is, a rough idea of your range per tank, and record your fuel usage. I have an app called Simply Auto that I record all my fuel used. I use the odometer and use the fuel gage as reference only. I reset the odometer to zero on fill ups, and I know I can safely get 200 miles on a tank on around town riding, and upwards of 230+ on trips.
Pretty bike. Welcome, hope you enjoy your ride here.
My 04 TC leaks the oil bag down in 4 months setting. No biggie. Just take it easy around the block a bunch of times. The return is only 15% or so more then the pressure side, so it does take a bit.
Rest assured it has plenty of lubrication going on.
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First Harley, Lots to learn!
