1908 hd engine

[rwm]

anybody think this was a pre vegas schill.i find it odd that nobody here ever saw this motor.what if some one had a complete 1908 listed in vegas even a repop.mr. ibm mite think hay it must be worth $400,000.if the motor was $65,00. seller of complete bike now gets $350,000 more then his bike was worth

[flat-happy]

i like the way you think rob----don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see----i guess we'll just have to wait and see

[silentgreyfello]

anybody think this was a pre vegas schill.i find it odd that nobody here ever saw this motor.what if some one had a complete 1908 listed in vegas even a repop.mr. ibm mite think hay it must be worth $400,000.if the motor was $65,00. seller of complete bike now gets $350,000 more then his bike was worth

The guy who bought it is a legit buyer. I think it was a bargain at 65k assuming it is the real deal, but I am still sketchy on the number of fins.

[HarleyCreation]

2238 does have belly numbers. Don't know about 2278. 2177 does not have belly numbers.

The thing that strikes me as odd, again, is that the number of fins just don't compute to the vin #. My theory... real motor, mismatched earlier cylinder that has been restamped to match. Just my theory without any proof to back it up.

Thanks for the info. I'm adding it to my SN data-base.

Your theory is as good as any. Slojoe thought the same thing.

Or: an older part possibly repaired, returned, or found dropped behind the workbench would not have been wasted or thown away.

Those guys were Scotch!

The breakthru info is the start of belly numbers. Good info.

[HarleyCreation]

Yep!

Motor looks like it might have sat outside in grandpa's junkpile.

But whose grandpa? What was his name? Where did he live?

[c.o.]

Motor looks like it might have sat outside in grandpa's junkpile.

But whose grandpa? What was his name? Where did he live?

Exactly..... questions...questions...questions.... but I guess if we had all the answers this would get pretty boring eh?

[HarleyCreation]

Exactly..... questions...questions...questions.... but I guess if we had all the answers this would get pretty boring eh?

So true. The question to answer ratio is such that we will NEVER get bored! Plus they also LIED so much and threw us off the track!

[HarleyCreation]

Here's another notion about the fin count/sequence.

We know from the At the Creation book that Harley was having problems getting good cylinder castings in the 1907-08 period. They sent Frank Ollerman to Standard Foundry in Racine to "iron" out problems.

So, I wonder if the 17 to 14 fin switch was made to somehow aid in the casting process which had been giving trouble. That an early style cylinder was used a little later in sequence does not seem unusual.