Oil level and pressure

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2 hours ago, HRM said:

OK, I think I found the leak. Solutions? Note drips on #2 fins.

Take a careful look at the push rod tube seal on the inner surface of the cylinder head.  Wash down with varsol and run it again.  The lower ignition wire ends for cylinder 2 & 4 should be repaired, it's not too difficult without the need for a new harness.

Clarence

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10 minutes ago, Hank said:

His don't look too bad except where they are bent over at the plug. This is my old set:

And the new ones with prefab 90° elbows:

And yeah, just noticed I need to reroute the lead to #3.

Hank,

A little tidy up is in order, your starter power cables are one melted/broken tyrap from contacting your cylinder 4 exhaust pipe.  Same for the crankcase breather hose, which is labeled heater hose.  

Clarence

 

[Mjknick@gmail.com]

Very Nice high tension leads! Yes that damn oil fill tube mine is loose again. I always try not to tighten the dipstick too tight but...

[jetdriven]

An o-ring fixes the dipstick tube gasket issue. Those tubes always get play in them with paper gasket there. Then they leak. Then you dog them down and safety extra tight then the safety wire cuts through the plastic. 

[carusoam]

Holy cow, Harley...  oil dripping on the exhaust tube?

Great catch!

That thing gets red hot with EGT flowing by on the inside.

Thanks again to Clarence for the pro-insight to all the photos.

Best regards,

-a-

[HRM]

55 minutes ago, carusoam said:

That thing gets red hot with EGT flowing by on the inside.

What I found interesting was that the EGT reading was unaffected--I thought there might be a cooling effect.

[Hank]

2 hours ago, HRM said:

What I found interesting was that the EGT reading was unaffected--I thought there might be a cooling effect.

You don't want to be losing that much oil!