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First off, hello and thanks for making this place available for those of us who ride.

Now, took my ike out for the first time after winter storage and I can't keep my battery charged. It charges fine on the battery charger, but when riding it drains down to where it won't turn the starter. So here's my question along with what most recently happened (three hours ago). --

Riding along and the engine pops and kinda chokes but runs fine after coughing once. Then, a minute or so later it began popping and choking constantly while running about 40 mph. Eventually it died and I coasted to a stop, and it wouldn't even make a clicking sound when I tried to start it. I pulled the plug on the stator and there was a small amount of oil(?) or perhaps some kind of lube where the plug connects. A...

Hello,
I need to know which push rod is exhaust or intake, they are not adjustable and one is 1/4" longer than the other. Which one is exhaust and which one is intake. Thanks

My father in law has a 1983 Sportster 1000, its been sitting for about 6 years properly stored.
We tried to fire it up...we have power to the ignition and to the starter but she doesn't make fire. we are not electrical guys...we need help!
Also the highbeam and taillight work but the oil light does not come on with the ignition???

Hit me back korki_44@hotmail.com

I am piecing together a 1968 XLCH that I picked up over the winter.
I just about have everything hooked up where it ought to go.

One of the last things I did was hook up the "empty" oil tank.

I started cranking on it - just to check out compression - and I started to have a little bit of oil coming out of a pipe from the generator.

Oil tank is still empty.
When I first goy the bike a few months ago, I squirted a few spoonful of 10w30 in both cylinders because the bike had been sitting quite a few years-just to loosen things up a bit.

Does this sound normal? I know to expect some oil dripping from places on these older ironheads - this just seemed a bit unusual.

Thanks for ant thoughts.

DVDLLN

Well, Spring is starting to arrive in Germany.... well sorta! We had lows this morning of 36 degrees, didn't seem to slow Shopguy down much (in fact, I would guess it speeded him up!) in arriving at Ramstein for a Poker run. By the end of the day, we had low 60's, sunshine, no major wind, and overall great riding weather. We had an almost 100 mile ride with 3 stops between start and finish (same place.....AAFES on Vogelweh). Went through the Johanniskeuz and Pirmasens area in a nice easy loop. GREAT ride!! Only sad part of the thing, Neither Shopguy or I won.....was an April Fools ride...low hand wins. Neither of us had high OR low hand..... Oh well. was still a nice ride! I am going to TRY to paste a picture in this, but no guarentee! If it works, Left to Right: Ron, Shopguy,...