I purchased a 1976 FLH in 1981 and it has not given me any problem I changed out the swing arm shaft right away and road that motor and trans to 53000 plus miles and now have and SS 84 with original cases good machine although many people say AMF had a problem. I must’ve got a good one.
The only problem the AMF bikes had was a case fitment problem. Mechanically their sounds motors. If it wasn't for the blob of JB weld underneath the right case I would even be considering a lower end. If these Shovel are well maintained and cared for no reason you couldn't get 100k plus miles without problems, but when people just do band aid fixes just to keep it on the road those catch up to you in the end.
Talk about shifting my 1970 if you don't give it a good enough tap to go from first to second it drops into neutral. It's the easiest going into neutral bike I've ever had
I could never get mine into neutral with the engine running only when off. Now the neutral light stays on all the time. That started happening right after I washed it.
Got them butt connectors on my wiring also.. That's why I bought a couple of FX wiring whole harnesses and at least it's original wiring and I think I can use sections of it for my bike
@@daygersden speaking about controls the 1980 that had the really modern hand controls on I went back to what would be on it in 1980 Well the way the lever actually pulls on the clutch cable there's not as much force and because the cable is not working an arm on top of the transmission. It is like today it's working a small fork inside the cover of the transmission on the side The clutch is well it's harder to pull but it's just not as I think it's tougher on the whole cable and lever etc. So even though it's a 1980 I'm going to hunt for 1982 to 1995. Clutch hand control because by then the cable went directly to the side of the transmission so it actually should work much better I didn't think of that when I put it back to original but the transmission itself is like a Evo transmission. It's dispute case with some 5-speed guts into it might be Evo might be Andrews I don't know. So now I have to hunt for a front brake master cylinder of that era with the big clunky controls I got everything, but a 9/16 master cylinder I've got the 11/16 but thats for twin caliper brake setup. That might be too much leverage for one caliper cuz the piston is larger..
@@daygersden I think that would even more complicated. I've only had to fiddle with one of those one time for someone and I did get it working good for him how I did it I don't know lol. I was amazed myself that I got it to work that was like 25 years ago
@@daygersden I have a friend that is really good at pinstriping. He's not real reliable but thank goodness he can make a good living at a pinstriping. Whenever we have the cavalcade of wheels he's usually their pinstriping automobiles
@@daygersden Yes kind of tech I think that's the name I've got the 2000 I in my '98 Softail. But I bought just a small points replacement unit there's a fella that drag races and he uses them in all of his drag racing bikes. It's just an electronic points replacement and that's I guess where it has the s on the end
@@daygersden they have a wide array I like the well if you have the harness and the module plugs into the harness under the seat or wherever. I was a little leery of the ones that actually are in the nose cone gets pretty hot in there but I guess they're protected well enough
I see you're just like the exhaust I bought for my 1970 it came with like dual exhaust on one side modern style. But yours like mine mine has a Kickstart on it and your exhaust if you ever wanted to could you could put a Kickstart on your bike because the exhaust is shaped that way the manifold
Ya, I've Been thinking about the possibility of adding a kick start. I've been trying to find out for some time why some 76 FLH 's had kick starts and some didn't. Couldn't find out anything from the factory if it was and option back then.
@@daygersden yeah I wonder if my 1970 they all had kickstarts or not I don't know. You know unless the motor is too big. It's a great option to have I think it's a must-have really. Only weigh 130 lb so I have to put a good effort into it but I can start it within a couple of kicks if you know the secret procedure for joke throttle etc.
