clean engines

[Old-Duckman]

That is why I prefer the old school of MC manufacturing. Raw aluminum...no silly painted aluminum. Shiny parts required regular polishing and rough, unpolished, cast parts just needed to be kept clean to look great. I use Gunk on all my motors, old and new but prefer the old ones for ease of cleaning...Though they do tend to weep oil more than the new Ducks and thus need cleaned more often.

[mgrisham]

Bean Clean does engines as well as chains and is biodegradable.
http://www.webbikeworld.com/r3/motorcycle-chain-cleaner/bean-clean/
I'm a fan.

[Speedbag]

Is that an S&S E series carb? I remember when they were all the rage.

Shit, I've got a B-series on my Panhead..... 

[koko64]

Nice. What year? Stock or custom? I had a 72 shovel custom with pan head front end and beautiful star hub.
B series, thats old school! I always liked the air cleaner too.

[koko64]

As far as cleaning goes, WD40, pressure wash carefully to selected areas, tooth brush, parts cleaner on the headers, Amourall on the black barrel paint, silicon and don't let it build up.

[muskrat]

pig spit on the black barrel paint works wonders.  nothing to do but spray.

[Speedbag]

Nice. What year? Stock or custom? I had a 72 shovel custom with pan head front end and beautiful star hub.
B series, thats old school! I always liked the air cleaner too.

Custom. It's a shovel/pan mongrel.

More here: http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=42781.0

[koko64]

Bloody nice job, now thats my kind of custom., and the B series looks perfect on it. It sticks out with great effect!

Nice to see an example of DPs work too. Great work there.

Pans are the best looking Harley motor for sure.

[ducpainter]

Bloody nice job, now thats my kind of custom., and the B series looks perfect on it. It sticks out with great effect!

Nice to see an example of DPs work too. Great work there.

Pans are the best looking Harley motor for sure.

Doesn't have to be ...

RED.

[NorDog]

Nice. What year? Stock or custom? I had a 72 shovel custom with pan head front end and beautiful star hub.
B series, thats old school! I always liked the air cleaner too.

What is a panhead front end?

[koko64]

Just the forks off a late panhead.

They had a beautiful tapered shape, and were wider apart with a great looking hub and axel set up. The hub had a bearing cover in the shape of a star. I painted the hub black and had the star and screws chromed. The bike was black with polished alloy primary and timing cases. Motor had 74 inch bore and 80 inch crank off an evo, Crane cam, solid tappets, S&S air cleaner on a modified (by me) Keihin 38 mm butterfly carb which I ported and modified into a poor man's S&S. 5gallon tanks, ducktail rear guard, Wide Glide seat. It was kickstart only ('72 FX), Lockheed magnesium race caliper front brake (a mate welded on a Triumph caliper bracket to the pan slider) and stock "juice rear brake", Accel coil, Koni shocks, forward controls, etc.

I learned about carb modification and tuning on Harleys and Brit bikes.

Sorry I ramble... Nostalgia.