Scout is a good dog, he guarded the Harley while it lived in his owner's garage for about 6 months
Back to the Frankensporty...
I had painted the rear wheel gloss black, replaced the tubes and tires, and a cracked rear brake rotor
and painted many other parts different shades of black in a few contrasting finishes. I replaced the factory chrome 8" rise buckhorm handlebars with a black 12" mini ape hanger set from JP Cycles, and a nice set of black Arlen Ness knurled grips. I secured the bars with a black bar clamp with a chrome Willie G skull emblem on it. This is the only bit of chrome I intend to leave on the bike when I'm done.
I made and soldered on wire extensions to all of the control wires to make them fit with the new taller bars, and I also reattached the turn signal wires and front brake switch wires that had been disabled. I routed the control wires through the inside of the bars as well to clean them up a bit. The clutch cable was long enough, but I had to replace the factory brake hose with a black braided SS Goodridge hose. Interestingly, I manage to create a dead short with the brake light switch when I was installing and testing it. It pushed enough amps through the brake hose to melt the black coating on it
I replaced the points with a new set of blue streaks and set the gap, set the static timing, removed cleaned and tuned the carb per the S&S manual and installed a new K&N type cotton gauze air filter.
FINALLY she was able to start, idle, go, and stop, and look pretty good doing it, I think.
