Hello,
1956 KHK.
I am going to paint the jugs on my 56 KHK. They are painted black at the moment.
The exhaust, intake and heads came off no problem, but I think whomever put the bike together before me did not use the correct fasteners and spacers. The bores look brand new, .040 over pistons and I can still see the hone cross hatch on the cylinders.
Anyway, I can not get a wrench on the right front jug base nut and am going to have a heck of a time getting to the rear right jug base nut.
For the front cylinder, I thought I would just remove the generator and that would give me enough room to get the right front base nut off. However, the generator will not come off, at least not easily. I have the two bolts out and I can pull the generator back a bit, but it seems to be stuck on the oil slinger. I never had an issue removing a generator from a panhead or a UL. What is different about a KHK?
The nuts are 9/16. If I cannot get the generator off without removing the cam cover (which I really do not want to do), is there some special weirdly bent wrench or some other technique to get to all the cylinder base nuts?
I understand that Harley did not publish service manuals during the model K era. How did mechanics of old work on these bikes without one?
Thanks for any advice, tips.