New Hardware for the Harley Knucklehead Top Oil Line
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- After getting the Knucklehead up and running again, all was great. She runs perfectly, fun, smooth, fast. All was well except for that topend oil line spewing oil. One of the fittings was worn out. So, here goes a new set of hardware for that line.
Teflon strings on his banjo, chrome loving flats on his wrench,
the delicate touch of a surgeon, for that work of art on his bench.
For 'blood' loss is bad for aesthetics, it's weepage offendeth the eye,
& if left to it's oozing devices, some bearing upstream may run dry.
Whence metal may touch fellow metal, dry faces could meet in the dark,
so ignoreth these leaks at thy peril, & wait for your bearings to bark . . .
With two days of winds over fifty, Sherwood stands bald in it's lee.
our leaves are all lying in France now, let's hope they're all glad to be free.
Y'all : )
Wow. One of your most beautiful pieces of poetry I've had the honor of receiving. I love it. Thank You and I wish you a wonderful Holiday Season.
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@@cameramanmike2072 Cheers Mike! - Sherwood today. The BBC say 'Strong winds & rain', my window says 50f, 50mph, & loads of backcombed squirrels clinging on for dear life. Ahh, 13.30hrs, must be at least 'Beer o'clock', eh! : )
Merry Xmas to All and Happy New Year. I sat down to add up all the hours I wrenched on my bike this year Mike and came up with 62 hours give or take an hour. Shop rates in my area are $150/hr. With your help Mike I was able to save $9300 in labor costs this year. Dang...That's another ride...lol. Thank You Mike. My next project, Springer front end on Old Red. Finally getting back to my roots...
Very cool. Thank You.
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For a very good year past, Thank You! For the New Year coming up I wish you and yours a healthy and happy year.
Thank You. And I wish the best to you and yours.
You and I are alike in that we keep our bikes clean and we take the practical approach to wrenching. Merry Christmas.
Happy holidays! Yes, we try.
Always love stopping by the garage have a blessed week my friends.
Thanx for stopping by.
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Oh, here's a quick thought about the one-piece push rods from the MoCo: cost reduction in production. If you can save ten cents per unit spread over 500,000 + units, and then keep doing it, the shareholders are happy. And we all know what THAT'S about!
You got it.
Merry Christmas, gents! Thank you for your fine work this year. You are appreciated.
Happy holidays! And so are you.
Thanks for the video Mike. Merry Christmas to you guys Kenny.
Thank You and Happy Holidays!
Mike I do believe a better explanation for why HD doesn't have adjustable pushrods or tappets is what it always is, MONEY! Its much cheaper to manufacture a solid piece of metal than it is to manufacture a pushrod thats adjustable, more moving pieces, more cost to machine. Plus its much easier for them on a assembly line to drop in a solid piece of metal thats already color coordinated to where it goes and doesn't need to be adjusted. Once they have the math on how long a pushrod has to be to take up half the hydraulic lifters travel, the same as you'd adjust them to, its a a simple wham bam thank you man, its done , just drop em in and go unto the next task on the production line. We all know the factory doesn't care about whats better, only whats cheaper!
And, we continue to improve them. There are some magnificent aftermarket manufacturers out there.
Yessir, there is! Thank God for them. Merry Christmas and a great Flathead New Year. 😁
The Flathead came with adjustable tappets.
Merry Christmas to you guys
And a Merry Christmas to you.
I have enjoyed watching your videos this past year. Merry Christmas my long time friend. Keep sharing your knowledge, it’s invaluable. 👍🏻
Happy holidays! And thank you. We do have over 300 videos on UA-cam now. So, go to our UA-cam homepage and click on the word "videos."
Knuckleheads ❤
Amen
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 Merry Christmas 🤶
Happy holidays!
Thank you Mike for continuing to make these videos! The last two years have brought the deaths of my brother,mother, and father....I've had very little time to work on my pan...I have to say that watching you work is very relaxing and soothing...I know that might sound weird..but thanks for helping me out during this season of life
Thank You. Please take care. I've had some huge losses lately too. My heart does go out to you and yours.
@@pacificmike9501 I'm sorry to hear that Mike. My heart goes out to you.
And we go on, because we can.
@@pacificmike9501 our loved ones that have passed on would want us to continue to live good lives.
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Another year of great learning videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge Mike. Merry Christmas to you, Camera Man Mike and Sonia.
Thank You and the best to you and yours.
Greetings from So Oregon Mike im sitting here watching this vid and my wife walks in and i tell her this Mike were i got my new Pacific Mike shirt and she watches for about 5 min and then says this is so boring! and i say Not if your a GEAR HEAD Harley rider i love wrenching my old evo and most things with two and 4 wheels 😎 im digging your channel Mike
Thank You. This stuff might very well be boring to someone not interested. But, you do have each other.
Merry X-mas and Happy New Year to you both !!
Thank You and Backatcha!
Makes me want to get back at my old knuckle. What wonderful machines !
They really do it. I get happy looking at it, then I light it off and turn into a teenager all over again.
🥇 here you go Mike,you earned it!!👍
Thank You.
Thanks for the video Mike! Like watching a Master Mechanic at work!
Thank You.
That bike is CLEAN!!!!! Thanks for the video Mike.
Thank You.
Just love your page… start out learning how to fix the upper oil line on a Knucklehead and end up learning about tools, history of the knucklehead and some about the Evo engine! Awesome!
Thank You. Go to our UA-cam Homepage. Once there, click on the word videos and well over 300 will come up with thumbnail pictures.
Mike that’s the things that make you want to cuss & eat fried chicken!🤣 Merry Christmas brother!🌲
You too!
Merry Christmas, Mike and Mike!!!..... always enjoyable time in the shop..... hope you get a great Christmas and Christmas ride
Thanks, you too!
Tappets have been around for hundreds of years. First on steam engines. It's a doodad that changes rotating motion to linear motion.
Cool. Thank You.
Hello from a snowy Sweden🇸🇪. It have been a good year with the videos u made👍. And i can't wait and see what u come up with next year 2024 Mike and Mike. Have a nice holiday with good food and maybe something good to drink. Kjell Blomstrand 🎅.
And wishing you Happy Holidays!
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I hope you have a marry Christmas. But I hope not to much. I’m not wanting you to take a tumble. And a great. New year. Full of many joyful. Happy rides. Lemay
You bet! Take care.
Thanks for another year of great videos, Mike. I just love your knucklehead. And thank you cameraman Mike for capturing all of this so expertly. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Thank You and backatcha!
Merry Merry
Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Merry Christmas Mike. I hope you have a safe and prosperous New Year!
Thanks, you too!
AT 5:39 I heard you say "...when I was a kid...". Perhaps what you meant to say was "... when I was more of a kid..."
I like that. Thank You.
Great job Mike 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Lemay joy to bothe of you. And every thing below
Backatcha!
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, Art from Reno NV
And the best to you and yours!
I’m still not a bike guy, but still love your videos dude. Merry Christmas mike!
Thank You. And, Merry Christmas.
Cool Stuff. Made in America by a American. Own by a American having fun and surviving around yahoos in the way some times. Peace and good will to my brothers. Thankfully for you two with wonderful videos and voices. WOW 😊. ✌️
Thank You and Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Always enjoy your educational hands on videos! Merry Christmas to you both!
Thank You. And Merry Christmas!
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Mike; you used that wrench like a surgeon uses a scalpel to keep from scratching polished aluminum. Well done!! Merry Christmas Happy New Year!! safe ridin rubber down
Thanks, you too!
Merry Christmas and happy new year.
Same to you!
Thanks for the video Mike have a merry Christmas and a great new year hope the rain stops for ya be safe
Thank You. And, Happy Holidays!
by memory when ive used loctite and permatex on sump plugs it did firm up but when i used a chinese brand in the shops because thats all they had that chinese brand thread sealant that just went dry and brittle.
Very sad.
Merry Christmas Mike x 2! Bought one of your Knucklehead shirts for a self Christmas present, left it in the mailing sack unopened, and can start wearing it in a few days. Can't wait!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you
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I don’t see any threads in the hole. It’s on the side of the gear the push rod is in. where the little bell clutch rides. It looks like a tiny pen spring with a BB on top. Wish I was able to send a picture. Just wanted to be clear. Can I just thread that hole and put a button cap machine screw in it? Thanks Mike and Merry Christmas. Watching the new video now and ordering a shirt.
Gotcha. Its a ball on the side of the outer kicker gear. It originally lined up with the slot on the inside of the early type throwout bearing. It's absence is about as important as its presence was. Don't sweat it. You'll be fine without it. Honest.
1 have that big bearing with the bearings inside. it will still be ok? sorry dont mean to be a pain. Thank you again.@@pacificmike9501
Mike!!! I received my hat today. Was going to do a shirt but man the hat is cool. Thanks for helping me not blow my 4 speed up. I also have some silly braided rocker oil lines. I own a fire suppression company 25 years. Started it from scratch. I m a pro with Teflon tape. I pulled them and dope taped them. The fittings don't leak. It was the pressed fitting. Any recommendations on replacements? I tried looking for Colony. Troublehead. Keep TCB brother. It's so nice that you interact with all your community.
Merry christmas guys, and many safe rides in the new year.
Thank you and wishing you all of the same.
ROCK SOLID TAPPETZ
Yep.
i absolutely love that bike!
Thank You. Me too.
HE LL 0,Michael. Peace ✌️ 😎. ROCK ON 🎸
Take care.
Those fittings are nice.
I think they're really pretty stuff. That's why I wanted to show them. Thank You.
Merry Christmas Mike and camera man Mike.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
this oil line feed should be on the shovelhead also, a 2 into 1 oil feed to both heads. I know there is aftermarket oil supply lines available but in my opinion, too many fittings to leak, which is probably the reason the mo-co does not use them
The stock top oil lines on a Shovelhead work fine. I do show how to install them in our videos (go to our UA-cam homepage and click on "videos." They'll all come up).
I got me a can of that white lithium grease.After watching many of your videos I decided it was the right thing to do.By the way I had a mixture screw fall out of my 89 Evo,would it be proper to use Teflon tape on the threads of the new one if it turns out to be loose when I install it
No. It might confuse the adjustment.
Merry Christmas everybody, I enjoy the videos, I’ve been fighting my 83 shovel, I have a front exhaust lifter that keeps bleeding down even after replacing it with a new one. there Jim’s big wheel lifters, any ideas why only one lifter would be bleeding down ?
The front exhaust lifter is usually the most troublesome. It's the farthest one from the oil supply and pushes the pushrod at the sharpest angle. Remove the pushrods and lifter blocks and blow out the passages in the crankcase that oil them. When you reinstall the lifters, make sure the holes in the lifter bodies face in. The front lifters should have their holes facing in, toward each other and the same thing with the lifters in the rear lifter block. Maybe there's dirty old oil? If there is, change the oil and filter. Run a little while and change it again. That should clean it up.
Question. Hey Mike, I am redoing my 1972 FLH transmission. Electric only. When I took the outside cover off the throwout bearing came off. There's a small spring and BB bearing that goes in the shaft. Lost the little BB that sits on the spring. The parts Book or manual book doesn't have anything on it. Searched the inter web. Do you have any idea where I can get that little bearing? Hope you can help.Thanks and have a Merry Christmas!
I think you are speaking of the center adjusting screw. If that is the case, it is an aftermarket adjusting screw with a ball and spring in it. They do fall apart. Buy a standard adjustment screw without the ball and spring, install it and live happily ever after. Seriously, they fell apart. You should be just fine. That ball won't get the chance to do any damage.
Mike your bike is cherry
I just brought my first Harley
It’s a 1996 road king
Last of the 1340 evo
99 was the last Evos. But a 96 Roadking sounds super comfortable and fun to me. Pretty too.
“Sonia is a biker, and she is liable to do anything.”
Stranger things have happened.
It looked like you were using the regular white plumbers Teflon tape instead of the orange type that is petroleum resistant? Is there some reason I'm missing for that? I use orange Teflon tape everywhere on my FLH just in case some petroleum product gets on the fasteners. One thing's for sure, having that Teflon lubricating the threads sure makes it easier to get a tight, leak-free connection. Sure beats plumber's dope :-)
I agree. Maybe I'm behind times.
I believe the yellow teflon is for oil and gasoline lines from what I've read
You only need it for fittings that come into contact with oil & gasoline. I don't use it on everything. Like you, I like lithium grease for gaskets, washers & the like. I should have said I use it on all my gas & oil connections, where appropriate. Oh, almost forget, those banjo fittings are really cool looking. You did a real good job with those :-)
Yeah, just on those fittings. Teflon isn't good in oil & gas lines, carburetors & things like that, which is where that white stuff seems to always end-up.
Mike, I love your channel, and your bikes are truly incredible, but there's no way your hot rod knuckle is gonna get a hot rod twin cam sir, with all due respect, of course....lol
Happy holidays to you fellas, love the channel.
My Knuckle is not the fastest around. But there are pretty fast ones out there that would blow your mind. But, the reason for riding them is something you'd have to experience to understand. You'd get a kick out of one that a buddy of mine ran at Chandler Arizona at the AHDR races in I'm trying to remember. I believe it was 2007 or 2008 Art Hendey Jr. ran a Knucklehead in Syntech Class.
@@pacificmike9501 ....thank you for responding, I appreciate that and the story.... Hopefully one day I'll be fortunate enough to ride an older harley....
I've owned many Harleys over the years. My favorite was my 47 knuckle. Certainly wasn't the fastest. Not always about speed, it's just the cool factor sometimes.
It's all a love thing. We needn't compete. Nothing runs like a Knuckle. Nothing runs like a Panhead. Nothing runs like a Flathead. Nothing runs like a Shovelhead. Nothing runs like an Evo. Nothing runs like a Twin Cam. Nothing runs like an M8. You know, nothing ran like my old Indian 80" Chief... When I was a kid, I modified a Honda 305 Scrambler. Everyone knew my sound as I blew past them at over a hundred.
Merry Christmas, Hi Mike on my 73 flh, im rewiring my remote start button wth a fuse as you recommended
Q, what amp fuse and gauge of wire, i have a 20 amp button? Ty sir
I use #14 wire for that. Fuse? Like 20 or 30 amp. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all of yours.
Any reason why you painted your bike yellow?
It was built back in the sixties and that's the color it was painted. I love it. So, my friend, Jack Foster of Progressive Auto Art repainted it the same color for me. Jack has since retired.
Love your vids. If you are in CA are you interested in rebuilding an Ironhead Motor/trans? 1979. Mostly together currently but primary and trans apart. Unknown condition. Thanks a lot.
Mike D
I am retired. Occasionally, I help someone out, but generally, you're just seeing one of my bikes. My hands are worn out.
Lol. " are you really botherimg me like that ?". So so suttle but, carries alot of weight.
Bothering Me?
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Thank You.
With all due respect Mike, teflon tape and/or any type of sealant should ever be used on banjo fittings.
Okay
Charlie Brown, why's evry1 pushing on Me?
Okay.
Aka plumba's tape
Nope. Plumber's tape is metal.
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I think you mean about banjo fittings.
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Merry Christmas Jesus
Can someone please tell me the life expectancy of an early 2000’s Harley 88” motor in terms of miles??
Nope. Be good to it and do the things it needs (replace the cam tensioners) and, with proper servicing, it will last a long time. Be hard on it, it will not.
Lemay Nelson sorry
Happy Holidays!
Thanks for the video Mike. Merry Christmas to you guys Kenny.
Happy holidays! Thank You.