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Steve, your on the right track, I have to say I'll bet your butt is puckering while your bending. Do you have another springer knocking about that is beyond help that possibly you could experiment...

Quick update, placed an order for the first air filter selected, once the bike is back on the road as I am doing top end work, will advise how it works.

Am in contact with K & N to produce an air filter for the 6" Linkert housings.

Here is an email reply from K & N as they appear to be willing to work to develop an air cleaner from one current...

Steve, we did a tour of the east coast of Australia back in 2005. Flew Hawaiian Air and it took 11 hours to get to Sydney. Form Honolulu to Los Angeles is a 5.5 to 6 hour flight depending on...

Fantastic Steve and your reply was not too long.

Impressive history and experience you have and it shows in what you do in the images.

If I were as accomplished at this as you are, I would do...

Hello John, what are your riding? How about some images?

Steve there was no shop manual produced for the period 36 - 40. There was a riders guide which is an owners how to of MC operation. My guess is that back in the day if the front end was damaged, they...

Cory....you are causing me to go HUNTING....for a Vincent. Found a 47 Rapide for 19,900.00 on Glasyads....a scam as I posted this to the Vincent owners forum. Beware!

SO the hunt still goes on....

Wow, that is great news. Your lucky you found it. If there was a cockroach involved, hopefully they will use bug killer on the sticky slimy creature.

Am facing the same thing, have to get a frame...

Checking the steering head alignment to the 2 front down tubes.

Steve, I wish you were closer, I have a frame in need of repair and your work looks to be excellent!

gunk, good old gunk.

The online auctions are rightfully a buyer beware proposition no matter how one looks at it. That is unless of course the part is new, never been used. No system on earth will prevent poor...

Thanks for posting this thread and images.

One more good reason to have a check off list of points where CPC (corrosion prevention compound) should be srayed into neck cavities while the top tree...

1062210623Chris, not trying to stir the pot, but the dent and the heavy rust on one end and then the rust on the screw hole are in plain sight with Dales ad and tells all one needs to know about this...

Shoulda been buying up parts over the last 20 years, I coulda been retired already selling them, especially with prices as seen in the auction link above. Geez, don't even need space for many of...

a grand is crazy silly money for a liscense plate. but then who am i to say anythign is silly, when buying a lens for a tailight assembly at almost a hundred bucks.

so how much is rare $$$$ beyond belief?

Factor the diameter of the crush washer you want to use, and then look for plug manufacturers that supply plugs of the given size. Not certain why copper is the commoditiy you seek unless a point...

Hunt for a steak? Naaaa, head to Ruth Chris!! Thanks for the info Robbie, I'll check it out.

Chris, any idea when the book will be available? Happen to know the title of the new publication?
Thanks in advance for any info.



Robbie, this is like staring at a steak through the...

With this coming back up, I gave up on th eair horn and went to the 6" air cleaner housing.

Finally located a foam pre filter from Napa for this job. The filter is just slighlty smaller than the...

WHile WW and CEI fasteners may be difficult to find, one has toconsider what reusing fasteners means in different assemblies. Reuse has some consequences that need tobe considered. Here is a web page...

Johan just replied over at Whermacht Award forums and provided this link to some images of the XA:

http://www.theliberator.be/liberator5.htm

Scroll to the bottom as there are 3 or 4 for your...

Chris, if the rights to BMW were any factor, how did these companies get BMW's into US military service with BMW being a German designed and produced machine? Up till 1939 trade with England and the...

Not a big fan of advertising someone elses sale, but if your into your build and want something like what this person is selling:
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