Well it is 17:35 on Sunday 25th July 2010 and after 4 months and many false starts I am finally ready to take John's Harley back to him.
Here's a little list of what has been done
Engine - strip out engine and rebuild with S&S Super sidewinder 116 ci hot set up kit
Ignition - Crane HI4-TC set to single fire, kuryakyn ignition jewels, new spiral core leads and high performance plugs
Rectifier - Crane Fireball rectifier with built in trickle charger
Exhaust - Vance & Hines short shots
Tins - remove stock tins and replace with wide glide tins
Gas tank - FXDL instrument cluster modified to take the new LED idiot light panel, Tacho fitted, new mounting kit designed and manufactured by yours truly, custom machined instrument spacer rings (what a bastard they were, machined from a bar of solid billet then diamond wire cut to a 2 degree slope) New fuel sender unit, new fuel gauge, new pingel hi flo petcock, custom made leather tank panel.
Front end - New Ultima inverted 58mm forks and triple trees (2" over stock), PM billet brake mount, new jaybrake 4 pot billet caliper, BF Goodrige braided hoses, custom brake rotor spacer, Maltese cross LED Turnsignals, New 5 3/4" Bates style headlight, New Avon Venom X front tyre, new maltese cross mirrors
Back end - Custom made rear light mount and plate holder, custom LED Maltese Cross turn signals, Custom Fat Bob stop/tail light, reposition fender mounts and seat mount
New Yuasa 350 CCA battery, billet isolater riders foot rests, complete valet including hand polishing all the crankcases, primary case, transmission and engine block
Hand wash, cut paintwork with Farecla compounds coarse, medium, fine, ultrafine, finishing compound, hand glaze and final polish.
PHEW, time to take it home to it's owner who I hope will be very happy indeed
I have told John that it needs a Mikuni 45mm carb and a supertrapp 2 into 1 exhaust to make it run properly but that is a future project.
I'll post pictures when I get 5 seconds to myself
Now I am off to spend some time with my ever patient wife
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