Blood, sweat, tears & beers . . .

That must be a typo. I have found some in my manual's wiring schematic. I think it's 140 ft/lbs not 400.
Excellent that the blue loctite held.
Good job sir..

Tommy, what's the torque on the nut for the front pully? I would think it wouldn't be as much as for the compensator. I assume the torque for the clutch hub nut is the same (50 to 60 ft. lbs. my manual says). I won't be getting any instructions with the open primary. The guys who are sending it to me checked the belt and discovered it was the wrong size, so they are getting another one from V-twin and will send everything when the belt arrives. I will be careful about the alignment and use shims if necessary. I should be able to get those at my local indie if needed.
FLHT, I went out and gave it that extra 1/4 turn after hand tightening it. Thanks.

I went out the other day and got a filter for the crankcase breather (see pic). I went to see Tattoo Tony today and he says not to use it. Says they get clogged up with oil. He made two recommendations: just run a short piece of oil line under the bike and let it vent to the atmosphere OR run a longer piece of oil line to the rear chain and let it vent on it. I don't see any way to attach it so it will vent to the chain. I think that would be the best way. Routing it straight to the atmosphere might eventually spray oil all over the back of the bike. I can't route the line to the air cleaner because there's no way to do it. At this point, my solution is to run it straight to the atmosphere and simply clean the bike when needed. Any thoughts on this?

Yes, I've heard that before. Good proverb! You know, one of the really great things about this forum is that people are willing to come up with advice when asked. Although I am an educator by profession, there are a lot of holes in my own education as far as motorcycle mechanics goes. Thanks to all of you who have helped me so far, and I'm not done yet!

Do the newer shovels have to vented to the atmosphere like how you guys are talking about as well?

Interesting......I figured that they would have come up with a more efficient way by now......I looked at complete custom not too long ago that had a 103" in it but it had the crank case breather on it....Other than it the breather clogging, what else is not desirable about the about the filter??

That is true....I had the same filter you have,only I didn't use the mounting hardware with it on the Evo(bottom breather)...I rode the bike at high revs(oil carryover)and I rode on dirt roads and I rarely cleaned it, it got filthy with oil and dust and there was absolutely no restriction in it at all...you can use the filter with no worries.

The thing that was really cool about the crank breather that I saw on this shovel is that the filter housing was an exact replica of my air cleaner system....It was way AWESOME!!!!

Hmm . . . I hate to go over this ground again, but I am not sure which place to hook up the breather/filter: I have 2 choices, it seems. There is a "pipe" screwed into the crankcase just to the left of the oil pump that I suspect is the correct place to hook up the filter AND there is a threaded hole right below it that has nothing in it. Which one is it? If it's not the "hole", do I need to plug it up or what? It looks to be too high to be an oil drain. Manual is not clear . . .

Thanks, Chuck! I installed the filter (mock up), see pic. I used the bracket and made it shorter and drilled a new hole in it, then attached it below the tranny plate. Used a longer bolt. I need to get the right size fitting that goes into the crankcase & installation will be complete.

Thanks, Cowboy. And I forgot about the stuff in the tech tip section LOL! Gettin' old sucks, boys! I can't remember s*** anymore. When I took a peek at it (the tech tips), all the info I needed was there about the connections. So, the "hole" in the block was the breather hole and the pipe sticking out is the oil return from the inner primary. Since I'm running an open primary, I'll have to plug that orifice up, but it's a good 2" deep to the opening. Hope I can reach it without too much trouble when I get a plug. Pic is of the oil return connector.
My exhaust pipes, new oil tank and all the primary stuff should be here this week.

JoshBob, I have the same crankcaes breather filter. It is connected on a trany kicker cover bolt. It works fine, those flters are desigend to be washable like a K&N air filter. Take it apart once a year and clean it. My bike is using both of those oil vent holes. One is coming from the cylinder heads vent and one is the crankcase breather filter.

Tommy, could I use the top hole instead of the lower one for the crackcase vent, since both are vents? If I could, it would make installation much simpler as I could use that long piece in the pic (post #318) and then I would only need to find a plug to block off the bottom hole. Also, the hose wouldn't have as much kink in it.