OK bro here is what you do. First jump in the pickup go down to the closest watering hole. Drink 6 of them. Then ride over to the closest Bro's house have 6 more. Stop by the closest fillin station on the way to the house and pick up a case. get back to the house and procede to start throwing them back. THEN the next morning after you have had your first cup of joe go back out to the WG look it over and then try it again. The answer will come to ya. Has helped me in the past to clear my head and ask some advise at the same time with friends
Jimmy, I had a problem with my 93 WG very similar. It was the vacuum fuel valve leaking and allowing gas to leak into the cylinders. It would liquid lock and jam the starter. Replaced the valve with a non vac type and problem was fixed. Maybe not your problem but something to think about.
Sounds about right Rex...
May 10, 2012 11:02 AM PDT
I can say that I've been getting excersise. I bought a case of 7 ounce corona's. By the time I get back to the bike I gotta hit the frig again.
Thanks guys. Either way I gotta get that filter cover off.
Peace
Wow, that's just common now in the new bikes with the ALL INTO THE INTAKE set up... granted it's a lot more efficient with the advent of EFI. Sounds like you breather bolt is shot and may have been put in initially without the proper loctite compound and may have nobbed out the bolt, if it's not the intake bolt you're referring to maybe it's a breather cover bolt with a broken nut fixture that won't budge. Either way do what you can to get to it without causing further damage bro! :-)
Alcohol can relax your stress but just walk away and ask around to other owners if they have experienced the same problem. You'll find an answer I'm sure! :-)
It's the breather cover bolt....behind that is the air filter.... behind that a nipple on the backplate cover where the breather bolt screws into. . There are two screws, one on either top side of the backplate cover that goes directly into the heads. I can get to the backplate cover bolts but then there's the matter of the backplate screw which screws into the carb, which means I can't get the backplate cover off. I thought maybe I could take the back plate cover off, thereby not having to worry about the breather cover; i.e. take it all off together. But that ain't gonna work.
My best bet is an easy out.
May 11, 2012 10:57 AM PDT
I used to have a pile of bolts I had to use an easy on from taking bolts off and especially those stupid domed little hex bolts, goddamn I hate those things!
May 13, 2012 10:16 AM PDT
Well, I got it. I burnt up a half dozen bits so I could use an easy out but being the impatent fk that I am; I ended up drilling a hole in the air filter cover just below the bolt. I angled it up into the backing plate nipple and pryed the ba#$d off. O.K. so I gotta get a new backing plate and new AF cover. I cleaned the carb and tomorrow I'll be putting in new fluids to see if I solved the gas in the oil problem. I think all is well. All the lines are clear at least. I fired her up for a couple minutes and she's purring but I'm ;going to do some more over haul to be on the safe side. I can't sell it if it ain't running good.
I ordered a new Heritage too. No takers on the Switchback yet but it doesn't matter...sell or trade in I'll at least be rid of it. I gotta say thought, she runs real sweet and strong. It's just the inherent vibrations I can't deal with on the long haul.
Peace
It's a Dyna, they vibrate, and when you pile more stuff on em you notice more vibration... if you put an FL front end on the wide glide, same result. I don't mind the vibrations, all Harleys vibrate and here's the kicker, the new softail motors have a counter balancer I will NEVER own a bike with a counter balancer! That's a horsepower killer.. you can only add so much to it before you have to go in put in a nice set of trued S&S flywheels, timken bearing to go along with any big engine mods... this is what makes the Dynas and touring bikes unique, but the Dyna over all wins out... it's not slung with a lot of extra weight therefore making it the best platform for performance.
I can slap in some nice mild upgrades and eat a 'radically' upgraded softail and not even spend half the money getting the performance. Call me crazy but if you're going to have a bike for any kind of go fast in the Harley V-Twin line, Dyna is your only real hope.
As I've said, I've owned a Dyna for years. My FXDWG has been a great motorcycle. I know what to expect from the Dynas. I know they vibrated but I didn't think the heavier front end was going to transfer all the vibes to a single area. I've also ridden shovelheads for years and they are by far my favorite. As for the "go fast" scenario; been there, done that and I don't need to do that anymore.
Update on the ups and downs of my mechanical impotence.............I tapped out the oil pan (one size over) and all is well in Denmark; no leaks, no gas in oil. She's runnin' a helluva lot better than that SB piece of sheite. BTW, I looked for the recall on the SB and didn't find anything.
Peace ya'll
So, I drain the oil, blow through the blow-by vacumn tube and it's not clear. Somthing isn't happening in the carb. 
I put a pair of vice grips on the hex bolt, turning and pulling at the same time. Nope, she's not coming out. 
And there ya go; a simple task turning into a freakin' real chore. And of course I'm an impatient sort but I quelled the urge to just rip the damn thing off. Instead I grabbed a beer to drink about it 
for awhile, lit a smoke, and then just totally walked away from the damn thing; pushed it back into the garage. Now, as I've mentioned in the past I'm not mechanically inclined. Oh, I can eventually do it but I'm just not inclined. I really don't enjoy working on motorcycles, no matter how many times I've had to do so. I get impatient. I get frustrated going back and forth to the tool box for the "right" tool. And I kick myself in the ass for not replacing something that I originally thought was a bad idea in the first place. It's the kind of stufff that comes back to haunt me.
