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This chapter covers the final elements of installing the cam case gears, the top end, the pushrods, rocker boxes then hot testing the engine and packaging it for shipment back to your dealer. Let's get rolling.Here's a Link to Part I, for reference: Part I, H-D Reman ProcessHere's a Link to Part II, for reference: […]

We head into Kerry's Head Works Shops for this next segment. Here's a link to the first Chapter, in case you missed something: The Reman First Chapter This weapon gauges the bore in the head after the valve guide is removed, to determine the guide size needed during the Reman process. Us old builders avoided

Hey,This is a quicky life-saving tech. One company makes wheel spacer kits. If you don’t have a lathe or one next door, you’re fucked when setting up new wheels or a new bike project. Doherty is a sponsor of 5-Ball racing, and here's a Doherty Wheel Spacer on our 1940 Bonne Belle Flathead. You will

Bikernet was faced with an interesting challenge recently. We try to help anyone and everyone in the industry, so when a starving bike builder came to us, because he couldn’t pay the rent, we reached out. He had a 1998 Dyna Glide basket case and needed to sell it quick. We made it available to

We caught up with Nick just after Daytona Bike Week 2007. “It was way down,” Nick said of the attendees, “But our new products got a lot of attention.” Since it was a blast of new stuff we decided to give them their own feature and Nick promised to send us more as they come

Editor’s Note: We mentioned in the Thursday News that we are about to launch a seat pan tech performed at the Bikernet Headquarters with MC Advantages molding kit. As it turned out a brother Joe Zanelli, our connection at State Line in Nevada read the article and mentioned it to his wife Shirley, who makes

These girls voted in favor of detailed wheels and sex with each other. I pulled up in my automobile to a stop sign recently and looked at the motorcycle next to me. The chrome was polished; the paint just waxed, every thing looked great except for the wheels. They were cast aluminum and had black

There’s the author and tech with his back to us, Scott Holton, wondering whether to remove the front wheel or cut a hole in the wall.Sunday, July 8th, Jeff Wiley, Mike Shafer and I went to Scott Minzenmeyer’s shop, Recreational Motorsports to dyno test the J&P Cycles Express. The motor we tested was what we

Alright, here we are again. Here's everything all masked out in the shop ready to spray.I got my coffee, the heat's on and the door's LOCKED. Check out Part One, click here I have to lock my door because folks hear me spraying paint and just walk right in,thus, sucking dust and bugs through the

When Harley-Davidson started rubber mounting their engines in FLT & FXR models it was a big hit with many riders. After a period of time some of the motorcycles developed handling problems. These problems were related to the Cleveblock style bushings in the swing arm. As the engine moved on the rubber mounts, it allowed