Thank you for your feedback, I didn’t know forking by frank was still in business? If you can get a set grab them because they are ground to the proper O.D dimension WITH the chrome tubes if you go that route. This way you won’t need those rusty cow bells. If I knew they where in business I would have bought a set and would have avoided having to ream out my good brass bushings to make the new ones fit because they where not ground under size for the chrome plating thickness. The O.D should measure 3.111 to 3.112 just like the stock 33.4 front tubes. I hope you can score a set of forking by frank tubes, they are made right! I appreciate this particular comment!

Thank you, I really appreciate it! I haven’t featured the 70 XLH on my channel yet but that project will definitely be coming. It’s one of my favorite restorations. Stay tuned and I will do a video series on this particular bike. Thank you for watching and your kind comment? Take care my friend.

Thank you for the detailed response. I had to subscribe after watching your video and give it a thumbs up.

I have bought a few sets of fork tubes from "forking by frank" over the years myself. I don't know if they are still in business either.

@@jerryjackson5939 actually I always save the stock parts and yes I saved these chrome cowbells. If I never mentioned it you would have never noticed them absent. The ONLY reason Harley put these on was to cover the ugly hard chrome tubes between the lower and upper trees. Other than that, they serve no function, just covers. I guarantee if Harley had chrome plated the upper portion of the fork tubes They wouldn’t have used these. In my particular case, it was actually cheaper to buy a brand new set of chrome plated fork tubes than send the cow bells out for re chroming. Since forking by frank is out of business, and they used to ground the O.D of the tubes to 1.308 and then add the chroming process which brought them to the proper 1.311 to 1.312 O.D that would have been perfect for the brass bushings I.D of the lower leg brass bushings, so the tubes have a nice slip fit sliding up and down with no binding. However the chrome aftermarket tubes I bought were not properly ground under size. Therefore the chrome plating they applied made the tubes 1.315 to 1.316. Which is oversized. That is why I was forced to ream out the lower leg bushings for a proper fit. Looking back. It’s a shame forking by frank went out of business because I would have avoided all of this… next time I will simply bite the bullet and pay the cost to re chrome my old pitted cow bells. As it is, everything worked out, but I’m not happy about taking so much meat out of my lower legs brass bushings. That is the lesson! Two ways to skin a cat I guess. The good thing I now have a nice adjustable reamer to rebuild my other lower legs with new brass bushings.

@@Michael-st1hl oh, I would notice it ;). Stock Harley tubes in the 1950's and 1960's had no chrome on them. The tubes you took off your bike were newer than 1968. In the 50's/60's they had a coating on the steel tubes, kind of like parkerizing but not exactly. Anyway, you are correct that is the reason for the upper tube covers....to cover the dull finish.