Harley Evolution Refresh Overview

Hey, welcome back to Fix My Hog. I'm Mike Roen. We've partnered with Dennis Kirk on this evolution refresh project. So let's get started. You look at the tires, boy the tread looks good, but sidewalls are deteriorating. These tires are probably over 30 years old so you get your little list going to Dennis Kirk, you start adding. You got tires, you got tubes, you got rim strips. We're gonna be doing the wheel bearings. You need wheel seals. You're gonna take a look at the front brake pads, what do they look like? More importantly, doing the maintenance, spokes. If you got a bike with spokes, you got a bike you're gonna be doing a lot of maintenance on. So check them out. Fork oil, obviously, that's part of the routine maintenance if you're looking at the manual. Get the fork oil, get your little drain screw, brass washers. You got oval rings up here for the fork cap bolt. Put that on your list. Moving forward, obviously you're gonna be doing oil filter. You got primary oil, trany oil, that's all routine stuff. Obviously spark plugs. If the bike's got a lot of time on it, probably you wanna update spark plug wires too. I mean, it's so simple to do on this and the cost of a spark plug wire's cheap. This bike we're gonna be putting the cool guy Pingel petcock on it 'cause we don't wanna mess around with a very old petcock trying to rebuild it. We don't wanna put a cheap one on there. So when we do our... We're gonna be doing another top end video on this bike. We'll be updating that as well. And of course the fuel lines. This one the crossover fuel line was completely deteriorated. I've already put a new one on there. The carburetor, I ordered up a carb kit. I had to put that in there just to get the bike running. So if your bike's been sitting, you're definitely gonna wanna order a carb kit. They come with pretty much everything in there you're gonna need. So put that on your list. Moving down the line. Obviously this motorcycle needed a battery. It'd been sitting so long, the other battery was junk. Went ahead and put a new maintenance free battery in there, pretty slick. And of course, you're gonna be wanting to look at the belt. This belt looks pretty good. It is 34 years old. If you were gonna go out and rage on the thing and really ride it, you might wanna consider a new belt. So it's something you're gonna wanna do inspection on. If you've got a high mileage, older motorcycle, you're gonna be looking at the drive belt and the pulleys because you're not gonna be putting a new belt on old pulleys. So it's just stuff you're gonna wanna really look at. So moving along here. Obviously, we'll be doing the rear wheel bearings. We'll be doing the spokes on the back. Rear rubber. You're gonna be looking at the rear brake pads. And there again, we ordered brake fluid for this bike because the brake fluid's just really old and it deteriorated. You're gonna be looking at the brake lines if those rubber lines are deteriorated. Like I said, when you get a high mileage bike a lot of times it turns into a mini restoration, not just a tune in service. So it's something to think about. You look at the miles on the bike and you look at how long is this part gonna last? These heim joints obviously are in really good shape because this bike's so low mileage. But if you bought an old bike with 80,000 or 100,000 miles on it, this is the kinda stuff that you're gonna be going over going, "Huh? Heim joints wore out." You're gonna order one of them. So just common sense stuff. And of course, once you get the battery put in it, you're gonna check all the electronics. Does the headlight high, low beam? Do I gotta a brake light? Do I need a brake light switch? The hydraulic switch, is that bad? 'Cause you gotta have a brake light on a motorcycle. It's pretty important. Turn signals, horn, just go down the whole list. It's pretty important stuff to have a brake light working. So it's basically, if you're going by your manual you're gonna cover every base. So that's the main thing. And if you look here at the table, we've got everything laid out. Denniskirk.com go to their website. They pretty much got everything for your motorcycle. So check 'em out.