2000 Road King

Well, there has been a lot of stuff going on in my life in the last couple of years, one of them being is I have started my own business. The business is kind of bike related, but not entirely. In some dealing with my business, I made a friend through a mutual friend and he purchased his first Harley. A 2000 Road King. In some business negotiations, my new friend asked me to go through his bike and fix whatever needs to be fixed. I agreed.

So, like I did with my engine project, I am going to document the servicing of this bike with pictures and commentary and offer some insights from this project. I hope you all enjoy it and participate in the thread.

For starters, here is a pic of his bike. A 2000 Road King

Nice looking King..

It will be a lot nicer when I am done with it.

You going to give it a complete servicing?? Compression check, fork oil, brake fluid,brake pads and rotors and of course the tensioner shoes ...What's the mileage??

I will be doing a compression test, a leak down test, will be using my bore scope, check primary, belt (which is loose), putting on adjustable push rods, the entire cam chest minus new cams, new exhaust gaskets and nuts, clean air cleaner, oil, tranny and primary fluid change, adding a Willie G air cleaner insert, a Willie G shift linkage, different style mufflers, different mirrors and levers. Almost 19,000 miles.

19,000 miles on a 2000,she's still new. lol....Fork oil and brake fluid might need replacing just due to age ...Might want to check date codes on the tires and their condition(dry cracks) six years is life span for tires according to manufactures.

Tires are in good shape other than the owner doesn't like them.

LOL...Reason I mentioned it was because of the thin white wall,made me think that could be an original tire,and be 16 yrs old now.I don't know anyone that replaced tires with the thin white stripe .

Sounds interesting keep us posted

I'm glad you're working on it buddy. And for showing me this group!

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I will do my best. We will mak3 this bike one to remember!

Today when I get home from work I will begin the major stages of going through this bike. Going to be a warm one.

A little bit of work for done today on the Road King.

Drained fluids yesterday and I would have to say that I was not very impressed with what I found. Here is the primary fluid.

Now this was NASTY. This is a picture of the transmission plug.

How stock is the King? He may want you to install a clutch assist while lubing the cables.

Pretty close to a bone stock bike. At this point I don't think the clutch assist is necessary.

I was just thinking since it is his first Harley he may find the stock clutch tighter than any other bikes (I did), and since you'll likely be doing the cables....

You should put Ken's EZ-Just mix screw!

This bike is fuel injected. Good tip though.

Ok, after some non evasive testing (Compression Test, Scoped the Bores and Leak Down Test), I would have to say that overall this engine is good. Needs some taking care of as far as routine maintenance goes, but otherwise in fair condition.

The results of the Compression Test was that both front and rear cylinders pushed 145 psi and the leak down test was tested at 90 psi with 3% leak down. Not bad! The one thing that I thought was a little concerning but will leave alone was what I saw when scoping the bore. Here are some pictures, a little difficult to see but if you look closely, I see some scrathing, not cross hatching, but scratching.