Exhaust Question
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Exhaust Question
I read Palmer's book and he says all panhead front pipes are the same. I have a buddy of mine that swears there is a difference in years. Can anybody set me straight?
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Re: Exhaust Question
Dewey!
My -65 Parts Book only lists one, so I believe Palmer's is correct.
...Cotten
My -65 Parts Book only lists one, so I believe Palmer's is correct.
...Cotten
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Re: Exhaust Question
I haven't checked the parts bible yet, but doesn't a sidecar front pipe have dimple in it to clear the tie rod?....bosheff
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Re: Exhaust Question
Bosheff!
I believe the sidecar handbook (haven't one handy) instructs to apply harley tool #1: a hammer. ....Cotten
I believe the sidecar handbook (haven't one handy) instructs to apply harley tool #1: a hammer. ....Cotten
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Re: Exhaust Question
I do believe that's what Palmer states.Bosheff wrote:I haven't checked the parts bible yet, but doesn't a sidecar front pipe have dimple in it to clear the tie rod?....bosheff
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Re: Exhaust Question
As they say, "Don't force it - use a larger hammer!" A BFH will do the jobCotten wrote:Bosheff!
I believe the sidecar handbook (haven't one handy) instructs to apply harley tool #1: a hammer.
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Re: Exhaust Question
Mark44!
I have also heard it called "the up-and-down wrench."
Boring anecdote:
A couple of decades ago, I enrolled at the local community college for a basic machining class (similar to what I instructed at the local University just a few years prior).
One of the projects was a little ball-pein hammer with a mild steel head, aluminum doomed-to-break shaft, but a nifty secret compartment in the handle.
Most of the class was a decade younger than I, but one fellow was an old stock-car racer nearly twice my age. (Didn't know at the time that he was a local legend.)
When I remarked to him about how silly the project was, he replied: "Its a gasket hammer."
And indeed it is!
....Cotten
PS: I would post a photo, but I recently broke it again.
I have also heard it called "the up-and-down wrench."
Boring anecdote:
A couple of decades ago, I enrolled at the local community college for a basic machining class (similar to what I instructed at the local University just a few years prior).
One of the projects was a little ball-pein hammer with a mild steel head, aluminum doomed-to-break shaft, but a nifty secret compartment in the handle.
Most of the class was a decade younger than I, but one fellow was an old stock-car racer nearly twice my age. (Didn't know at the time that he was a local legend.)
When I remarked to him about how silly the project was, he replied: "Its a gasket hammer."
And indeed it is!
....Cotten
PS: I would post a photo, but I recently broke it again.
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Re: Exhaust Question
If all else fails, use the "smoke wrench"...Mark44 wrote:As they say, "Don't force it - use a larger hammer!" A BFH will do the jobCotten wrote:Bosheff!
I believe the sidecar handbook (haven't one handy) instructs to apply harley tool #1: a hammer.
....Cotten