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Specific Motor categories:
Bottom End (cases and crankshaft)
Top End (cylinders, pushrods etc.)
Cylinderheads
Gear Case (cams, idlers, cam cover)
Lubrication System (oil feed pump and scavenger pump, reservoir, filter, and lines)
Top End (cylinders, heads, pistons, pushrods): 393 topics
-48 Panhead lifters, solid or not
'48 leakage
'54 running very hot after rebuild... found out why!
1000 cc panhead piston size
1948 panhead/shovel
1950 panhead tappet adjustment
1952 pushrods installation
1956 FLH Hydraulic lifters ?
1956 top end noise
1960 rear jug smoking: need help!
1964 hydraulic Lifter problem?
1964 panhead lifter noice
1965 cylinder oiling
4130 steel push rods
56 FLH - Color of Heads and Cylinders ??
59 PAN LIFTER BLOCKS "HELP"
59FLH Problems
60 pan motor
61" cylinder bore
63 cylinders
65 Pan-Shovel
74" Cylinders - Resleeving
Adjusting Hydraulic Lifters
Adjusting hydraulic lifters units on the Panhead
Adjusting hydraulic tappets on a 1959
adjusting push rods
Adjusting Sifton Pushrods
Adjusting solid lifters
advice needed, pan cover holes stripped
After Market Lifter Blocks & Tube Covers
Aftermarket Cylinder Kits
Aftermarket cylinders
Aftermarket panhead cylinders
aluminium pushrod covers
Aluminum or Stainless?
Aluminum Pans for a 58
Aluminum pushrod installation Q
aluminum pushrod question.
Aluminum weld-in nipple conversion
another cylinder question
Another OEM casting bites the dust
Another oil leak, I blew out a base gasket
another top end noise question...
Any trick to repairing a cylinder fin?
Are these solid or hydraulic?
Bad News For Me please read
Barrels
Base gasket
Base Gasket /Head Gasket Advise
Base gasket alert
Base gasket leak
base gasket leaks
Base nuts torque specifications
before I do something stupid with the Longest Pushrod...
bent pushrod
bent pushrod
Best Cleaning method
Best gasket for pushrod tubes?
Best hydraulic lifter
Best Rockers
Big problem pushrods Panhead
blow bye
BMO ,,Velva touch lifters
bonilite pistons
Bore oversize: is it safe to bore old original-jugs to 0.80
Boring
boring sleeved cylinders
broken piston
Cast Iron Tappet Guides
Cast or forged ?
Center case stud...PART 2
Checking / Testing of 56 FLH Hydraulic Lifters ?
CHI-COM Panhead cylinders, or max overbore
Clearances
clickin pan
Clyinder Honing
Collapsing lifters or weak oil pump
colony pushrods survey
Compression and leak down test
Compression help
Convert Pan-Shovel back to pure pan
Converting from hydraulic to solid lifters
Correct cylinder and head paint.
Correct Cylinder color
Correct cylinders
correct cylinders and heads for a 53 bottom end
Crack or Weld? In rear cyl intake
Cracked lifter blocks
Custom Chrome oil ring installation
Cylinder base gasket replacement question
cylinder base gasket sealer
Cylinder base gaskets
Cylinder base leak
Cylinder Base Locks on Fiftys Fl Models
cylinder base nut pulling out
Cylinder base studs.
Cylinder bores
Cylinder dilemma...
cylinder gasket surfaces
Cylinder Head Bolt Insert
Cylinder height vs. manifold width
Cylinder Honing
cylinder linner
Cylinder paint
Cylinder paint.
cylinder question
Cylinder removal
Cylinder removal: the best/safest/easiest way to get off
cylinder sleeves
Cylinders
Cylinders
Cylinders
Cylinders
Cylinders
cylinders
cylinders 120-48 help.
cylinders and rings
D Ring Question
decarbonizing heads/pistons
Deck height/stroker plate
drilling oil returns in 51 cylinders
Dry hydraulic unit installation
early 50 jug
Early pan hydraulic pushrods possible to find
Early pan lifter blocks
Early Pan pushrod inspect and adjustment
Educate me on Pushrods
evo lifters
exhaust spigot
External oiler
External Top End Oiler on 56 Pan
Failed the leak down test?
Feedback on head gasket.
Firering or Teflon
Flexing Pans???
four inches
front cylinder compression and other panhead woes
Front head noise
Front lifter block leak - ideas on a good fix?
gaskets
Genuine Panhead Jug
German made Cylinders
Going from hydraulics to solids
Good source for panhead cylinders/ pistons ?
Hastings Piston Rings
Head to Cylinder Fit
head torgue
Help determining correct cylinder, ring, and piston sizes
High temp cylinder paint
Hole in front piston
HOLE IN ROCKER ARM COVER
Honing oil
How do these look?
How to repair chipped/cracked fins?
How to tell difference between hydraulic and solid lifters
How to tell hydraulic lifters from solids?
Hydraulic Lifter Inspection
Hydraulic lifter problems.
hydraulic lifter Question
Hydraulic Lifters
Hydraulic Lifters
Hydraulic lifters
Hydraulic Lifters
Hydraulic Lifters
Hydraulic Lifters ????????
Hydraulic lifters in a '48 pan
Hydraulic lifters on a 48 pan
Hydraulic lifters seem to collapse
Hydraulic lifters.
Hydraulic pushrod question
Hydraulic Tappet Choice
Hyraulic conversion
Intake nipple install
Intake nipple install and removal tool
intake oilers
Intake valve oiler tube position
Introduction and lifter question.
Is this a solid or a hydraulic tappet?
JAMES METAL BASE GASKET LEAK,the end of the story
Jim's power glide tappet/lifter
Jugs. flat black or simi gloss?
Length of 61" Cylinders ?
lifter base aluminum 50 pan
Lifter block leaks
lifter block question
Lifter block screws
Lifter blocks
Lifter blocks
lifter noise
Lifter question
Lifters
Lifters and Lifter Blocks
Lifters collapse after getting hot on 64 FL
Lifters for V-Twin Replica Motors
Lifters: solid or hydraulic with 48-52 pans
Linkert intake
lousy#@$*%$#! aluminum pushrods!
More lifter block questions !!!
motor teardown,verticle scoring in cylinders
Mystery Top End Oiling
Need Advice on the Top Motor Mount
Need front cylinder
Need front cylinder
need help
Need to replace pan gasket
Nempco piston set
NEW COLONY Push-rods!-3600,miles
New hydraulic lifters
New Top End Question
New Top End Question
no compression!
noisey top end after bike heats up
Noisy Lifter/Valves
Now what?!
OE 48-52 pushrods
OEM Hydraulic Lifter Adjustment
Oil circulation
oil control ring question
Oil Fouling Rear Plug, Gas in Oil, leaking from plug
Oil Leak
Oil leak and cam question
Oil leak from pushrod base
OIl leak from rear cylinder pushrods
Oil leaking from rearmost pushrod
Oil leaks from pushrods tubes too much oil? solid lifters
Opinions on tappets and blocks
Painting the cylinders...........or not ??
PAN CYLINDER BASE NUT QUESTION
Pan cylinders
PAN LIFTER BLOCK QUESTION
pan pushrod
panhead stock bore ?
Panhead - Knucklehead pistons
Panhead cylinder
Panhead cylinder base stud
Panhead cylinder paint
panhead cylinder paint
Panhead cylinder resleeve recommendation?
panhead cylinders
Panhead Cylinders
Panhead Cylinders - How Hot Do They Get?
Panhead Fin Repair
Panhead front base gasket leak
panhead jugs
Panhead outside oilers
Panhead pans, OEM or aftermarket?
Panhead Piston
Panhead pushrod
panhead stroker pistons
Panhead stroker pushrods
panhead tappet oiling
Panhead top end
Panheadache
picture
Pilgrim builder alert
piston assembling
Piston bore clearance
Piston brand name
Piston Choice...
Piston info
piston measure
Piston Pin Lock Rings
piston problems
Piston question.
Piston Ring clearance
Piston Ring Clearance
Piston Rings
Piston rings
Piston Rings
piston slap
Pistons
pistons
Pistons Seizing or ???
Plates under cylinders 48EL
Powder Coat Cylinders
powder coat cylindrs
Pre 53 Panhead Pushrods--what gives?
problem with piston removal
Proper Lifter Adjustment
Push rod adjustment
push rod diameter
Push rod Hydraulic unit 17920-53A
Push Rod Tube Seals
push rods
Push Rods On Pan
Pushrod adjustment 1948 Panhead
pushrod and hydraulic lifter question
Pushrod backed out
Pushrod cork change-out
Pushrod cork interference
Pushrod cover leak
Pushrod cover retainer installation
pushrod cover seals
Pushrod ground up
pushrod installment Q
Pushrod lengths
Pushrod question on 63 pan.
pushrod seals
Pushrod seals...cork or rubber ? Oiled or dry ?
Pushrod size
Pushrod tool?
pushrod weight
Pushrod, hole or no hole??
Pushrods
Pushrods
Pushrods getting beat up
pushrods to long
Pushrods: what should I use
Pushrods?? Motor sprocket??
Question about S&S pushrods
Re: lifters
Rear cylinder removal with the engine still in the frame
refurbished cylinders?
Replacing base/head/pan gaskets
ring gap
Ring gap position
Rings
Rocker Arm bearing and intake oiler question
rocker arm cover pads (OEM#17507-48)
Rocker bearings
Rocker block & motor mount stud question
rocker block stud pulled out of head
Rocker Covers
Rocker covers felt pads
Roller tip rocker arm
S&S pistons
S&S Steel Pushrods
S&S steel pushrods
S&S stroker kits
Should I modify these jugs: quite a mix-n-match
Shovelhead & Panhead cylinders
siezing 50 fl--cylinder upgrade
Sifton solid lifter conversion experience ?
solid lifter adjustment
Solid Lifter Conv Kit?
Solid lifters
Solid Lifters Tappet Body to Tappet Cups (Loctite)
Solid lifters to hydraulic
solid push rod conversion
Solid pushrod conversion
Solid Pushrods
solid pushrods same size in lengths
Solid vs Hydraulic lifters
Some options on my pushrods on the 53
Source for overhead oiler parts
Split locknuts on solid lifters
Standard or stock displacemtn support
Starting to smoke from the rear cylinder
Steel or aluminum lifter blocks for solids
Steel pushrods solid lifters, how tight?
Steel Pushrods...exhaust note
stock bore
Strange Oil Leak
Stripped Spark Plug Hole,,, what do you do with the chips?
Tappet Adjusting Screw Dimension
Tappet block gaskets
Tappet block question
Tappet block Screws?
Tappet block wear
Tappet Blocks
Tappet Guide Paint & "Special" Solid Gasket
Tappet Screen
Testing hydraulic lifters
Thinking about a top end rebuild 7.5 or 8.5 comp ratio?
Tin Rocker Cover Interference
Tips on changing engine oil
Top end clatter!
Top end CLICK when kicking over
Top end rebuild advice?
Top engine mount
torque on jug bolts
Torque plating
Torque Wrench
Torqueing cylinder base nuts
valve adjustment
Valve Collars Stricking Rocker Covers.
valve covers -& d-ring---just wondering
Valve lifter ticking on rear exaust when idling
valve lnserts
Valve seals
Valve springs
valves hitting pan
vavle adjustments/lifters
Velva touch lifters
Vtwin Mfg piston orientation
Water to decarbonize pistons & cylinders?
What Lifters?
what pistons are not supposed to look like!!!
Worn Pistons - Connecting Rod Issues?
Wrist pin clips
Wrist Pin Spiral-Type Lock ring
WTB Panhead front cylinder
WTF are these? Weird lifters?
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