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Bookmark or Share- ironhead spark plugs - The Sportster and Buell Motorcycle Forum - The ...Sportster/Buell Model: IRONHEAD XLH. Sportster/Buell Year: 1982. #3. 20 July 2005, 05:45. Originally posted by IronMick. I use NGK BPR6HS in the front cylinder, and NGK BPR5HS in the rear cylinder. The digit 6 or 5 is the heat range of the plug. For NGK plugs a smaller digit indicates a higher heat range.
- Piston Ring Lesson - The Sportster and Buell Motorcycle Forum - The ...With three-piece oil rings, do each piece individually. File down the gap if it is too tight. (or if it is like this and too big, throw the ring behidn the wood pile. ) On worn bores, check the ring gap at the bottom of the cylinder, where there is least wear. timewarped1972. Master Mechanic. Join Date:Nov 2008.
- Valve guide replacement SOP - The Sportster and Buell ... - XLFORUMNo ironhead left the factory with "steel" valve guides. OEM is ductile iron and the standard replacements are as well. Rowe, Kibblewhite, and Dixie manufacturing are the most common ones floating around right now -- along with some NOS guides. All are grey ductile iron. You can even make your own if you're feeling lazy and have a good lathe.
- Divorced Ironhead project. - The Sportster and Buell Motorcycle Forum ...Been working on this Resurrection project for about 10 months or so..I had a set of grenaded ironhead cases with the blown out trans section in my shed collecting dust for about 20 years and pulled them down to steal the case studs for another basket case build...And then the sawzall came out Hybrid Sporty frame front/hardtail stretch fabbed up with a fliped ironhead drum wheel.'78 suzuki 21 ...
- Setting The Ignition Timing on Your IronHead - XLFORUMSetting The Ignition Timing on Your IronHead EDIT: If the flywheels have been replaced in the history of the motorcycle it may have different timing marks. Therefore, on a decades old motorcycle you cannot rely on what any person or book [even the FSM!] says the flywheel timing mark should be.
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