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My 1st and only Harley - besides Rapidos that don't count - was a '56 Pan, sold my Roadrunner replica and my Ramcharger - to same friend - to buy the Pan, for $7k in 1990's dollars. Had rebuilt motor/clutch and trans, but spray painted, molding done on the frame, chopper seat, etc. Spent 2...

The singles could put you in the hospital, break your knee or send you over the bars. But usually super easy to start if you were sensitive to what is TDC, and the principle of letting the flywheels carry the piston over with a hard kick after releasing compression by pushing the piston over...

The GS is long gone. Swapping bikes, uh oh... A riding buddy insisted on swapping one night, him on Triumph 650, me on 1960 Matchless Typhoon G80TCS, a 600cc single that had been owned, jumped and left for dead by Evel Knievel back in 1963. So he gets on it, tries to kick it a couple times...

Can only imagine the price of a shot of Laphroaig now. Thx to my guardian angels I survived the effects of said shots on BMW R100GS, no injuries or arrests, definitely some divine intervention at work.

Dunno about sleeping, but can help with PTSD, lifelong smoking, under the care of a professional. Is Medicare paying for this yet? ;] Until then, Johnny Walker Red, McLellands Isla, Laphroaig ;]]]

DeTokeville had some amazing insights, makes you wonder what he sampled ;]

"Voltaire, the French writer, said, “The best is the enemy of the good.” Confucius said, “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” And, of course, there’s Shakespeare: “Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”

Eureka, it's the solution ;]]]

I learned wiring at automotive school and the later the school of hard knocks, and I still wire for self and others. If there's a better crimper than the Klein, I've never needed it, heard of it, or needed to hear of it. From the net, well described, maybe too well... "Best crimpers I've...

Snap On "Cry only once." Seriously, a $35 pair of crimpers.

As sold by Snap On, and others. I've been using nothing but for several decades without any issue, just great crimps.

It's cutting edge technology that Chevy unveiled in 1974, standard on all GM products by 1975.

That's a Mopar big block, smooth and quiet, even when you hit passing gear on the highway, getting around some gas mileage econobox, almost instantly hitting 90mph as you were getting back into your lane on narrow 14" or 15" bias ply tires. Been using them for 20 years in everything personal...

Are the machines happy? HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Gut pics of the ADL?

You can still buy Packard 440, the finest spark plug wire ever made.

Makes troubleshooting by pulling plug wires off the cap impossible, a big Chevy improvement. In the trade back then, they warned technicians via pamphlets that HEI was killing several technicians a year. Don't get zapped by high powered ignitions, they can stop your heart. Keep one hand in...

HEI style cap terminals push into the holes and stay. Looks like it's held down by two screws.

Mechanical choke? Watch this, I've done this only to get some smoke from excessive splash via the rods bearings, took the washer back out. Sadly there's no room to pull the pan in a sedan like you can in a Power Wagon, I rebearinged a wideblock in a '65 W200, did wonders for oil pressure and...

I've been fooling around with plugs since old enough to get zapped by a lawnmower coil... Back in the early days of the Anthropocene era, I cleaned my plugs, never bought new ones. The engines of the day had severe sludge issues from the oil of the day, and oil return holes in the heads of...