My Harley Knucklehead Has Too Much Oil on the Top End
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- This Knucklehead is getting too much oil to the top. Let's check out the pump, which has a circulating, pressure limiting, valve in it. I have another one of those valves and it seats better. If we change it and reset the pressure, it just might do the trick. To get to our website, tap on this link. pacificmike.com/
Mike is like the Bob Ross of building Harleys
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Man I love that Knuckle. What was I thinking? I should have bought one in the 70's. Another great video, Mike.
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This is so enjoyable for me to just watch and listen as you work and dispense information and history of these wonderful machines..... thank you
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I started using white lithium on certain parts since I saw you use it and I’m very happy! I’ve changed the primary oil on my street glide 3 times and I’ve reused the derby cover gasket every time and I just reapply white lithium and it doesn’t leak!
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Thanks Mike. I love those engines. Never knew the lithium grease deal. Maybe the lithium crystals lock together in the thin film and don't permit oil to penatrate.
That's a really nice way of verifying it, IT WORKS. But, I really like the way you explained it.
White lithium grease always saves the day, not only on motorcycles. Think I heard the fan! Camera man Mike is always on the lookout. ✌🏻
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Cup of coffee and a new Pacific Mike lesson, Gonna be a good day.
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Thanks Mike and Mike for another great video, I enjoy the hands on and so much knowledge for the motor company and how to do it properly.
Glad you enjoyed it
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Thanks for what you do Mike!
It's more important I think you realize.
I appreciate that. Thank You.
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@@cameramanmike2072 Hey, thanks to you too there Mike!
Folks will be able to refer back to these series of videos to be able to figure their own stuff out, indefinitely.
Great concept!
Mike, watching you work has schooled me on many things. Thanks for that, and your videos rock.
Thank You. That's great to hear.
I received a Coffee Table Book entirely on The HD Knucklehead! It is not an easy read ,I gotta take it slow and absorb nd reread things. It is mind boggling how many mechanical changes were made to the Knuckleheads continually thru production years as problems developed. The book really gets into the specifics of what issues developed and how they attempted to resolve them . Love Your videos ,I only recently discovered them .
Well Thank You. Yes Knuckleheads are interesting. The real fun, take my word for this, is a mildly warmed over Knucklehead with a well balanced lower end, the right cam, well engineered exhaust, right gearing flying down the road. Truly "E Ticket." Nothing runs like a Knuckle.
Any old machinery fascinates me! I ve kind of been sucked into loving flat head engines now.I got into old walk behind Gravely L Model Walking Tractors and have restored a few of them .Amazing Machines ,they were built with so many milling machine operations they could never be reproduced today . I learned how simple yet efficient flat heads are . So I started reading on old 45 cu in Harleys ,and the big bore flat heads ,love the old K Model Sports ters. Your videos are wonderful ,I just watched your rebuild of Kiehn CV Carb ,I put the slide in backwards once .It didn't work too well ! I converted my 87 FXRS with Butterfly Carb over to a Kiehn CV Carb off an 89 FLH. I need to go one size bigger on main jet I believe. I have run the air fuel mix out as far as it goes without falling out and still get some coughing until warmed up a goid bit .It runs great otherwise . Thanks again ,I m gonna be busy watching all your videos .
Thank You. You know, on that carburetor of yours, the main jet doesn't go in to affect until you're flying down the road. The original is usually okay. The low speed jet generally needs changing. It sounds like you'd really like the next size larger on that low speed jet (it's working the whole deal until about 60mph).
Hi Mike, you must not say excuse me, when you blow your Nose. A clean Airfilter is very important for Machinery and Man. Very good Video.
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Great video Mike thanks. White Lube also great four car transmission pan gaskets to hold in place when installing.
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Great idea with the lithium grease. Here in Australia we have a issue on the open roads running into kangaroos or emus. My mate wrote off his pan head a couple of years ago and spent several days in hospital . Take care mate cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Thank You. And you take care. The deer are certain times of the year and you have to learn their habits. I don't know kangaroos.
Ya know, I've talked with a few of my motorcycle friends about making your bike stand out. Not so drastically change things completely, just subtle little things that set them apart from the run of the mill motorcycle.
Most bikes I see have black frames, I suppose because it goes so well with any color you can find. But I love that you have your knuckle frame in yellow, which, in my opinion isn't the easiest color to make it look good. But your knuckle is such a good looking bike with the frame and tins matched up in a color I don't see on many bikes at all.
One stunning scooter you got there.
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Thank You. It's really way easier to maintain a black frame.
Mike, your sweet Knucklehead chopper reminds so very much of a bike that was featured in one of the first issues of Big Bike magazine. I love that yellow paint! Ride safe, Mike!
Probably the same bike. It's been around a long time.
@@pacificmike9501 It could very well be that it's the same machine. If memory serves, the Knucklehead in question had a completely stock frame, a chromed XA springer fork and was painted chrome lemon yellow. Gives ya cause for wonder. Thanks for the video, Mike. Ride safe!
You bet. She's been in my family since 1988. I gave her a restoration and a few goodies about 15 years ago.
HOWdy MIKE,
Irrigation = 2 - to -TOO much OIL in the TOP-END
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When I see a knucklehead video I’m always reminded of the time I had to opportunity to buy a 47 knuckle for $4000…. And I passed!!! I still kick myself to this day!!! Great video as always!
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$4000 I remember passing on a bunch of 300-500 knuckleheads in the 70's. Everyone was into putting shovel tops on panheads. pans tops and knuckleheads were a dime a dozen. Now they are as good as gold.
Yes, they are. I remember. I remember when my old boss said, "Just wait. We'll be restoring Shovelheads." We all laughed at him.
Thanks for the extra content.
Our pleasure! I'm just trying to show some of my day to day personal things I do to keep things running well.
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Ah, may I suspect an all roller bottom end, with needles & balls elsewhere?
'No shells made to float in some high pressure moat, so no gauges to watch by your knees.
For these balls bathed in oil, will roll off their toil, as your finning doth soak up the breeze.'
(Oil for your bike should be like buying drinks for a lady - keep it cool, keep it clean & keep it coming!)
Evening sunshine, late 'steaming' the fields after heavy showers, the river will mist soon. - Gunthorpe Bridge, England : )
Wow. You really paint a picture. Thank You. I couldn't think of an answer that would at least seem poetic. I did look up "Gunthorpe Bridge." Wow! It's really beautiful.
@@pacificmike9501 - Ah, we were the 'Southside Mob', a 1/4 mile East, at the foot of Trent Lane, lies the Saxon mound that the Norman's made into a Motte & Bailey castle ('Developers' eh!) From there we youngsters would defend the village against the 'Barbarians from the North' (any Gunthorpe kids) Failing that, we'd trudge South to assault the Fosse Way, looking for lone chariots on their way to the Roman Space Program at Margidunum. (Now buried beneath the A46 interchange! Progress.) Life in rural Notts can be fun while you remain '12-ish & competely sane'. Y'all : )
just singed on you mentioned yucaipa , ca.. I live there too . great area . im putting up a 81 low rider shovel head .
Cool, works for me.
Good Afternoon Mike from Pittsburgh. Awesome Guy to learn from. Professional men like you live a Happy life. Enjoy your Freedom
Thanks, you too!
love that bike , I'm partial to springers have 2 myself
This one is a very rare XA Springer. Thank You.
Enjoy your videos. I never had or worked on a Knuckle. And you've probably seen and read it and tried it but I remember an article in easy rider tips and tricks on knuckle head oil control by rotating the rocker arm shafts one way or the other to increase or decrease the flow. it was called Knuckle Gusher.
Yes, I have it.
Seasonal allergies....try nettle. Great herb for allergies. Take half of what they recommend,and only as needed. Another great video😁👍
Thanks for the tips!
Good morning Mike and Mike . How are you ? Thank you for this knucklehead video.
Good morning! You're welcome.
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Wow Mike knucklehead still looks awesome I hope I come half way as good on my 69 triumph chopper
Triumphs are already beautiful. Yours will be no exception.
Good morning Mr Pacific, Cameraman Mike, hope all is well. Gotta say, white lithium grease is magic. I always use it on gaskets and seals, never had a problem or leak and seals up beautifully every time. Once you smell it burn off, you know it’s sealed.
Gosh, I’d sure love a knucklehead some day, what enthusiast wouldn’t I guess is the bigger question lol.
Both my Twin Cams are 2002, I’m bias towards that year for many reasons but I think I may turn my stage 4 95” into a 106” stroker, going from a 4” stroke to 4 1/2” and shorter skirt pistons. Of course many will say, “ you’re splitting the cases, why not go 124?” Because it’s an extra 6g’s plus in parts and what the hell am I gonna do with a 124” that I can’t do with a 106” on the street besides run hotter and put unwanted stress on other components. Nothing wrong with a 124 but these days, it’s cheaper to just do a crate and where’s the fun in that? No, I’m gonna do all my own work, build a reliable stroker 🤞🏻 and make Uncle Mike proud lol . Some say “what would Jesus do?” I say “ What would Pacific Mike do? “, he’d build a bad ass bike, that’s what he’d do.
Take care of yourself Mike.
Wow! Sounds great! All I can say is, "A beautiful, balanced and welded flywheel assembly, will make as much difference as all the other "upgrades." Have fun.
What are you talking about $6 K extra in parts to build a 124 " ?
@@t.s.racing from an 88/95 to a 124, seriously? What you save in parts that can be reused you triple in an upgraded tranny alone.
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Excellent video. Never really understood the need for those style of pumps. I wonder if that is why the panheads return oil into the crankcase and stayed with that. Later bro.
Harley has always tried lot of stuff on us. I really don't know the history on this one. I do know, it was their early circulating systems. They got it right on the Knuckle, just a little complicated.
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i love your videos!!!! i really wanted a knucklehead ( im sure like everyone else does ) ha ha ha!!! got me a shovel a bit ago so now thats my project :) Thanks for all your great films on these old bikes:) Take Care & i'll see you out on the road:)
Thank You. And your Shovelhead is a pretty red thing. I saw her in your videos.
@@pacificmike9501 Your welcome! and Thank You :) I'm glad you got to see her! (Shovelina) :)
great vid as always . i guess them saddle bags have a heat resistion backing . thanks
Actually I made up heat shields that stand off from the pipes, leaving a large air gap between the bags and the pipes.
Truly a "craftsman"
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Harley wasn't introduced to a torque wrench until the 70's
Now its belt and suspenders via nylon stop nuts ,locktight ,and torque ,
Yah.
The Bob Ross of Harley's...
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That is a most beautiful machine you own Mr. K . I really enjoyed this video .
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I do the same as you mike i greese all my paper gaskets exept i use bearing greese. Lithium or bearing tomato tamoto either way they stay in place sueing assembley and never had one leak .
Nothing succeeds like success.
Great video
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Hello from Sweden. I like this oilpump details👍. Did not understand how that oilpumpvalve work? or i did not hear what u said. but i guess it open/close or something like that. i heard kids outside the garage door,they have small hands for the tiny nuts/washers🙂. like always👍👍👍. don't mix up blow your nose paper with lithiumpapers! show Linda on her sportster without any bear. ok thank u Mike and Mike for this time. Get better. Kjell Blomstrand/Sweden🇸🇪
Wow. The centrifugal valve is just as it sounds. It has a little spring loaded diaphragm. RPMs make all the difference. It smooths out and slows down oil flow at low and midrange levels.
@@pacificmike9501 thank u for info on the oilpump Mike👍
my thoughts exactly joe
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Ever seen or worked on a delkron evo motor with o-ring head gasket...no head gasket material just a big o-ring...its in my modified fxwg i picked up...fun project..or not..lol
It's the way a lot of race motors are built. Sure works better. It took Harley until they came out with the Twin Cam motors before they could O-ring the cylinders. I love it.
@@pacificmike9501 i need to fined the o-ring lol..and the bottom plate gasket for the cases..or I could make one..its a strange bird..2 oil lines from the heads to the left side of the case..no oil ports in the top of the cylinders..and not a lot of info so far on building this thing...came with a super-G carb and an s&s cam ..the pistons have delron plugs for keepers..I thought they were packing plugs at first ..its different for me for sure...:)
That's all high performance stuff. When building big motors, a lot of things come up that have to be addressed. Making a gasket is no big deal, although, I'll bet Genuine James gaskets has one. Give them a call. "Button" wrist pin keepers are quite common. Delrin is very cool stuff that is a composite of teflon and nylon and doesn't wear out. You'll need to do some research on the oil system. If you can, contact the builder. It will save a lot of headaches. Sounds like a very expensive ,build.
What can I say, another good and interesting video Mike. Oh and one more thing, That is just a sweet looking bike.
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Fucking Mike... miss you brother
Miss you too. But, I been good.
Hey Mike! Working on a 2005 Road Glide with a bunch of miles on it, over 100k. Bike lost a significant amount of it's engine oil into the primary, engine oil was way low and primary was way over filled, transmission oil was ok and filled to proper level. So I surmised the engine oil seal to be the culprit, can't figure any other way the engine oil could get into the primary other than that seal. So I removed the old seal and spacer and purchased both new. Here's my question! When I removed the old seal it looked like it was in backwards compared to what I'm used to seeing in a automotive main seal. Is that because the main purpose of that seal is to keep the primary oil out of the engine and not to keep the engine oil out of the primary? I checked the service manual and it didn't say anything about the direction of that seal. This bike has had a unknown number of previous owners and a lot of miles so I'm wondering if someone else might of put that seal in backwards. If that is the way it goes in then there isn't much area of that outer seal to drive it in with. Thanks for any input! PS I love my PM tee-shirt's , I got one of each. Glad you used a good quality Champion shirt. LLH&R
That's the first time I've seen that done in 40 years.
Yep. Well, there it is.
Wish I knew earlier about the white lithium grease for gaskets. Just put my primary cover gasket on the Sportster. Feel you about the hay fever. Mine is bothering me also
It will clear up. Sit tight.
@@pacificmike9501 thank you Mike
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hey Mike !!!, I don't remember if you had answered my question?
I would love to try & find a floor lamp just like yours, How old is it? Do you know where I can get one ?
love the show, keep it up !!
Any medical supply. This particular one is about 40 years old. But, at my yearly checkup, my doctor has one in his office that appears to be new, just a little updated.
Great bike but the sound of the video is sometimes loud its like raining outside
All kinds of interference, at the moment.
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Is there a procedure to flush out all the oil out of motor when you change the oil and filter when you do an oil change on a 1997 80 CI heritage
FLSTC ??
I just became aware of the fact that about a quart stays in the motor when you just change the oil and filter . !
Not really. There should only be 8-14 ounces in there.
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I do this all the time on my 92 ultra classic. Works like a charm everytime.
So for those paper gaskets is it best to use white lithium or is Indian hear shellac acceptable for gaskets
Personal preference. Use what you like. I know the white lithium will seal and I know it won't block passages.
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely understand as I made it farther in the video
Love that old knuckle. Do you set your timing back a little to make it easier to start?
You gotta move everything around a little to tailor it to yourself, your locale, your fuel... It's a one kick starter.
Are you soaking your parts in solvent or using a parts washer on your metal parts to get them clean Mike? Are you using gas, kerosene, or a cleaning solvent that's less flammable? Just curious...
I do it all. Just depends on the size of the part and where it's going.
How do you know what miles you put on bike for inspection?
I don't. But, I can estimate. Sometimes I do it by months.
Hey what brand paper towel did you use to sneeze...just kidding
Cheap.
@@pacificmike9501 Well done sir!
Thank You. I guess that means I still have the power to blow my nose and the intelligence to not spend too much money doing it.
Hi Mike, love your videos. I’ve a question if you don’t mind. I’m changing the gaskets on my shovelhead oil pump, do you recommend paper or plastic? Thanks
What did the factory use? I prefer paper and white lithium grease.
@@pacificmike9501 That’s good enough for me. Thanks
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Another great show
Will do. Do the same. Thank You.
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I'm guessing ( running over a Bear ) is an inside joke , I once knew a paper delivery lady who swears she was attacked by a deer and had to defend herself by cutting its head off ( btw she carried a Bowie knife ) but my Uncle's and I laughed and said that she probably tripped over someone's lawn deer .
No, it's lost in my phone somewhere, but she texted me a picture of the bear lying in the street. And, you'd have to know Linda. She is a little different.
Please don't take offense to my recent comment , Just some people reality these days are questionable to say the least . but in the previous video I don't remember getting a clear understanding if the bear was already down when she hit it or it ran in front of her , But what made me think it was an inside joke was after you mentioned the bear this time I could hear camera man mike laughing several seconds after .
You don't know Linda. She's funny. Anyway. A car or truck hit the bear first. The bear was down. Linda ran over it and fell down. How this was ascertained, I don't know. But the bear was still alive before Linda ran over it. Linda is tough. She got roughed up a little when she fell. I think she was most sorry for the bear. She is truly a kind person.
Its good Linda is ok , Its hard to see what is in font of cars , Its even harder keeping 4 car lengths of space between yourself and the vehicle ahead of you , Someone always wants to go around you and cause a sardine jam and then the other vehicles get mad when that loud motorcycle passes them for safety sake .
Well I was going to say some dumb jokes about Lithium but then you said 1/4-24........
And then.... I don't get it. 1/4 x 24 is something you need to always be aware of on these old Harleys.
Word is you're getting old in your slow age .
Not what I'd call a "gentle reminder."
@@pacificmike9501 just funning with you mike
I know. I had to say something.
@@pacificmike9501 we love you Mike 😁
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TO MUCH OIL, USUALLY the OPPOSITE Mike👀👀😮😮👍👍👌👌🙏🙏
Not in a Knuckle motor. Knuckles were Harley's first pressurized oil systems. They depend on vacuum at the right time in the right place. Once you get it all right, it stays and just runs and runs.
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