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On the kickstand repair, here are the lugs I found:
The first is no. 83-0035, which can be had for $31, and may be a cast item(?). The second is sold by Old's Cool Choppers for $37 and looks like TIG-welded mild steel.
The notion you can't kick start a motorcycle on the side stand is... well, idiotic. I have owned a half-dozen kick-start bikes including the 565 lb. '51 FL that have never had an issue. (Though to be fair, the Harley has an over-engineered, spring-loaded side stand that bolts to a plate welded to the frame tube.)
That said, this appears to be a Meriden design weakness that shouldn't be too difficult to overcome.
Assuming that the typical failure is where the lug meets the semicircular (or circular) frame butt, three measures would presumably solve the issue:
The first is no. 83-0035, which can be had for $31, and may be a cast item(?). The second is sold by Old's Cool Choppers for $37 and looks like TIG-welded mild steel.
The notion you can't kick start a motorcycle on the side stand is... well, idiotic. I have owned a half-dozen kick-start bikes including the 565 lb. '51 FL that have never had an issue. (Though to be fair, the Harley has an over-engineered, spring-loaded side stand that bolts to a plate welded to the frame tube.)
That said, this appears to be a Meriden design weakness that shouldn't be too difficult to overcome.
Assuming that the typical failure is where the lug meets the semicircular (or circular) frame butt, three measures would presumably solve the issue:
- extend the length of the frame butt if possible;
- extend the length of the lug fore-aft to exploit the lengthened butt; and
- add two pairs of gussets to stop the flexing along the plane where the lug is cast or welded onto the butt.