[sarnali2]

"Found him laying IN the pavement" eh? must have rifled him in there pretty good......Reminds me of a guy I saw on an R1 that lost it and went through a ceder fence, he left an almost perfectly round hole in the planking, must of went through there like a cannonball....

 

[sarnali2]

Todays History lesson...

Really? Is the Knuck a touring model? I don't think they named them with the "FLH" designation back then but whatever the equivalent was. "DuoGlide," maybe?

Post a photo, love to see it.

Knuckleheads are 61 inch EL models, the FL and FLH (for high compression) designations didn't come out untill the '48 Panhead available in 61 and 74 inch displacements. The Hydra Glide designation came out in '49 to reflect the Hydraulic forks as opposed to springers. The Duo Glide designation came out in '58 to designate swingarm rear suspension as well as front. With the addition of an electric starter in '65 came the Electra Glide ,67 saw the Shovelhead debut and in 1970 the AMF take over and the alternator charging system with it's disinctive cone instead of a flat side and generator became the Shovelhead Cone motor...

Know which was the first swingarm model Harley??... The '53 K model, the flathead predesseor of todays Sportster.

 

[sarnali2]

Sarnali just said that the FLs did not come out until 1948. Who's right here?

No, he's right, I forgot they bumped the '41 Knuckle to 74 inchs and came out with the F designation. They also increased the 74 inch VL flathead to the UL 80 inch flattie. The W is for the 45in. flathead and the original X was for the boxer engined XA developed for North Africa in WW2