Wednesday, May 5, 2010

1974 Article: A Mikuni Carburetor for the Harley-Davidson Sportster







Most experienced Sportster owners will admit to the bugs and gremlins residing in the factory carburetion system. The Linkert, Tillotson and Bendix carburetors supplied on Sportsters and 74 Big Twins were and are crudely made, touchy to tune and archaic in design compared to almost any other motorcycle carburetion system of the Seventies....salvation is finally at hand....Jerry Branch has been performance-testing for Harley-Davidson's R&D, racing and service departments for the past 13 years and he has been a Harley wrench for 29 years. All of the XR carburetor development was done by Jerry...

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