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OEM Sidecar Frame Loops - 48 wishbone?
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Are you sure that's a 48 frame? Looks more like what Palmer shows a 49, machining of the ride control stud. I'm relying on memory. I don't have it open in front of me. Not that it makes any difference with what your doing. I have often thought people putting hard tails on later frame were only going half way, they should have the sidecars loops as well. So was thinking on how that could be accomplished.Comment
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Are you sure that's a 48 frame? Looks more like what Palmer shows a 49, machining of the ride control stud. I'm relying on memory. I don't have it open in front of me. Not that it makes any difference with what your doing. I have often thought people putting hard tails on later frame were only going half way, they should have the sidecars loops as well. So was thinking on how that could be accomplished.
The old guy I got if from showed me pics of it (48s with springers) and said him and his brother each bought one new, him this El and his brother an FL. I got everything from the EL. What happened was they lived far off a main road and eventually bashed the bottom out of the FL. They didn't have a lot of tools so they cut the EL in half to get the engine out and never got either back together. He couldn't find the rear half of the frame so I never got it. He didn't know what happened to the FL as I recall now either. That's all I knowComment
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That could be cool but I'm thinking more of a blend of old and new, a restomod type thing using all Harley parts. Something very reliable and different. Maybe an injected 48 Pan motor with a Timken converted botton end for power. Anything you can imagine is possible these daysComment
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Standalone MicroSquirt ECU with switchable maps. The second mostly a cooling map. You need to have complete independent control over both cylinders for fuel & timing. These old girls need a lot of help staying cool if you're going to flog them, have them last. They need help everywhere actually. And wouldn't it be cool you didn't need to send the fuel down that tortuous path. Squirt it directly at the valve insteadComment
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I probed those sidecar loops for measurements and had a good look. Unbelievably clean in there, not a spec of rust, just soot from welding all those years ago, wow!.. They are bored about 1 5/8" deep but only to the I.D. of the tube. I guess a structural measure to help prevent stress failure? Tubes are butt welded to the ends of them. Very nice complete penetration
Edit: I need to take that back!!! I was feeling the weld penetration and not the end of the tube. So, the tubes slip into the loops about 1 5/8"Last edited by oneuptom; 10-08-2021, 12:20 PM.Comment
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