1959 XLH Coil

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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby hennesse » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:51 pm

hennesse wrote: See excerpt from service manual below.


I lied. But here it is.
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby EKHKHK56 » Sat Jan 26, 2019 3:50 am

Quite a good report! Thanks Dave. It is an amazing difference, especially on a performance machine, between solid plug wires over all others. Just wires...
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby Mutt » Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:09 am

I sell Gen-U-ine Packard 440 spark plug wires, made in USA. Just need to know the overall length of each wire
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby strong56KH » Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:00 pm

I don't know if this was already mentioned, but the big twin coil mount holes were 5/16" while those for K and early Sportster were 3/8". If you want to use the big twin coil with the K and Sporty 3/8" studs, you will have to drill out the mount holes.
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby themike » Sun Jan 27, 2019 12:12 am

General info - there were 400 Military Police Sportsters built in the 60's. Saw some in person.
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby hd54kh » Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:10 am

I think there were K or KHs bought by a European country maybe Belgium or Sweden for police service. And was there 2 different coil/tool box stud sizes used on K/KHs, 5/16 & 3/8 inches?

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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby JerrryR » Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:30 am

52-54K/KH used 5/16 coarse. 55 on used 3/8ths fine.

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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby roadbum » Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:03 am

Hello, Thanking everyone for their help. I picked up a coil yesterday which I think is still wrong but I bought it cause it was there. My pic's are too big to post. It is round and has the wires fastened with plastic nuts exiting the top. Not shown it my book. Also had the staggered studs shown in previous post by JerryR. Am I better or worse off? Thank you for the help.
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby JerrryR » Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:44 am

Hi Roadbum, If you want to email me the pictures at [email protected] I'll size them and post them for you. The coil studs both early and late were two lengths. The picture shows the longer of the two latter ones and the shorter of the two early ones. Not only were the threads different for early and late but the studs diameter was also larger for the latter.
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Re: 1959 XLH Coil

Postby JerrryR » Sun Jan 27, 2019 12:24 pm

Roadbums coil picture.

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