Gordy
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Wow, definitely could use a rebuild. Looks like the head gasket was leaking too?
1956 Harley "Hummer" 165 New Project
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Sweet, Your gonna get back a good running engine
When in doubt send it out
Best to have a pro work on that - they know all the tricks and quirks
Risk Man
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While I have been buying parts and researching sources, I found Harley Hummer Parts.com. Turns out the site of hundreds of OEM a
nd repop to original specs parts and hardware was being run by a guy named Mark. Two years ago He partnered with a long time parts collector turned MFG as a retired tool and die maker. His name is Duane Taylor. Duane is 96 years old this year and had been doing the Harley Hummer parts business for over 40 years since his retirement. He made tools and dies to create exact replicas of the Fenders, luggage racks, tool boxes, exhaust pipes and dozens of other parts. He has been a huge icon of the hobby for a long, long time.... His final project was to make a machine to set the studs on the replica leather saddlebags of the early Hummer bikes.
After my first order from Mark in September, I contacted him last month for some other parts only to find out that his relationship with Duane was ending and he was out of business. I think I got on of the last orders from Mark as his website at that time was already closed. I asked about the saddlebags but he said they were long gone....Duane had his own website for many years before partnering with Mark for sales and shipping. So his webpage URL was forwarded to Marks site.
While looking for some saddle bag examples for the Harley Hummer to have reproduced in Bogota a long with My Whizzer bags, I stumbled on Duane Taylor's site and clicked on it and low and behold, the Hummer parts website (which apparently was Duane's before partnering with Mark) came up. I found the saddle bag pictures and by chance called Duane.... He answered my call two week agol I asked him if he had any of the bags and he's said he had saved a couple of sets. I sold me one of the sets and the next day asked me if I needed a luggage rack (Retail $185) and I said yes and he included that for an additional $125.!
In the email he sent me with the tracking number he wrote the following:
Your package with bags and rack will leave today by UPS. I have not been there yet as I am
A little slow anymore. Its my age (96 and counting) I use it as an excuse.
“FYI: I sold this business last week and everything on the shelves left yesterday. It took 3 men
All day to load the big truck box and be on their way to Helena Montana. That was a lot of parts made here over the years. The only item left is the fender machine I designed/made here a few years ago.
It is tooled for the early 1948-50 4 inch fender but can be modified to make the 5 inch as well.Enough “blabber”
Thanks for the order. You were the very last “customer”.
Duane Taylor
WOW very last customer after over 40 years!! and look at these leather bags.... amazing work for someone that at the time of making the first set 8 years after conception he was 91 years old!!
They are going to look great on my bike.
If interested, here is Duane's story and machine he built to set the 76 spots on each bag.
nd repop to original specs parts and hardware was being run by a guy named Mark. Two years ago He partnered with a long time parts collector turned MFG as a retired tool and die maker. His name is Duane Taylor. Duane is 96 years old this year and had been doing the Harley Hummer parts business for over 40 years since his retirement. He made tools and dies to create exact replicas of the Fenders, luggage racks, tool boxes, exhaust pipes and dozens of other parts. He has been a huge icon of the hobby for a long, long time.... His final project was to make a machine to set the studs on the replica leather saddlebags of the early Hummer bikes.
After my first order from Mark in September, I contacted him last month for some other parts only to find out that his relationship with Duane was ending and he was out of business. I think I got on of the last orders from Mark as his website at that time was already closed. I asked about the saddlebags but he said they were long gone....Duane had his own website for many years before partnering with Mark for sales and shipping. So his webpage URL was forwarded to Marks site.
While looking for some saddle bag examples for the Harley Hummer to have reproduced in Bogota a long with My Whizzer bags, I stumbled on Duane Taylor's site and clicked on it and low and behold, the Hummer parts website (which apparently was Duane's before partnering with Mark) came up. I found the saddle bag pictures and by chance called Duane.... He answered my call two week agol I asked him if he had any of the bags and he's said he had saved a couple of sets. I sold me one of the sets and the next day asked me if I needed a luggage rack (Retail $185) and I said yes and he included that for an additional $125.!
In the email he sent me with the tracking number he wrote the following:
Your package with bags and rack will leave today by UPS. I have not been there yet as I am
A little slow anymore. Its my age (96 and counting) I use it as an excuse.
“FYI: I sold this business last week and everything on the shelves left yesterday. It took 3 men
All day to load the big truck box and be on their way to Helena Montana. That was a lot of parts made here over the years. The only item left is the fender machine I designed/made here a few years ago.
It is tooled for the early 1948-50 4 inch fender but can be modified to make the 5 inch as well.Enough “blabber”
Thanks for the order. You were the very last “customer”.
Duane Taylor
WOW very last customer after over 40 years!! and look at these leather bags.... amazing work for someone that at the time of making the first set 8 years after conception he was 91 years old!!
They are going to look great on my bike.
If interested, here is Duane's story and machine he built to set the 76 spots on each bag.
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Risk Man
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I could likely rebuild... but I don't have a machine shop for the cylinder work... that is the show stopper on these projects and local machinists don't do small engines...Sweet, Your gonna get back a good running
When in doubt send it out
Risk Man
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7000 miles.... looks like it was never serviced.
Risk Man
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Awesome ya got the orange trim & studs - Perfect real deal repop Made in USA by a master
Risk Man
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Yep. Thanks... and match my tangerine bike color!
Get a tangerine jump suit to match
You'll look like ya broke outta jail
Or a really weirded out demented Evel Knievel or Elvis impersonator...lol.Get a tangerine jump suit to match
