The first picture below is a better view of the VIN No. than can be seen with the naked eye on the work bench
with every type of light available short of ultraviolet and anything short of pointing the Hubble telescope at
the stamping I'm not sure whats quite stamped there for sure. The most is the weird mystery number
stamped on the case to the left of the stator in a strange kind of stamp that seems cursive almost or in a
60's/70's? style tooling. I know the motor originally come out of an fxr and fransplanted into a softail and
hooked up to a 5spd (no the numbers don't match the VIN of the Softail or either the original FXR trans or
the 5spd trans that I picked up with the motor that ran it on the Softail and I'm wondering if anyone's seen
these kinds of stampings on a motor before? The bike was originally imported in the early 90's here as an
engine in the softail from the States. I know that international (US) VIN's are a number or shorter - I can't
remember which- and thought this might have something to do with the whole second number? I'm sure this
isn't the only time one of these suckers has landed here (the import paperwork has the orig HD numbers
listed as the VIN) - Still had hell trying to find the paper cross referenced with VIN charts.
any ideas guys n gals?
Nirvanaride
Kiwidave you're a legend mate! Thanks for the straightforward info on how it all works!!
I've had a bit of trouble reading the numbers in the first place. There is no number on the right hand case half, is it just the left that gets the stamping id's? Is the sherif the line under the 1?
So most trans that are pre 87 to 70 should fit well and mess in with the motor? Thank you for taking the time to help me out!!
Wow thanks Kiwidave!! You answered a bunch of questions that popped into my head as I read along and *bang* answered (no need to annoyingly drone on by asking annoying questions like "reckon someone makes an adapter place for that kinda thing?" etc. when people wanna ask ACCTUAL questions on here. I think that I'm covered with everything I've got and good to go except the question of hydrallic clutch adapter covers that I've found a few of and a really nice unit made by Performance Machine that covers a bunch of years and 4(?) & 5spd boxes. I think that I'll have to pay up quite a bit for a little hydralicaly line actuated "glorified hook" as the bars I have are running all internal hydrallic lines inc. the clutch by Custom Cycle Controls
Another thought I had was weather there is such a thing as a hydrallic open primary??
I've seen some BDL hydrallic units online but was wondering if there's a similar clutch actuator that
is a true open primary where the clutch is activated via a hydrallic clutch lever and thus line? Anything
along those lines been heard of before?
