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Old 3rd December 2022
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Hello, I recently became an ironhead owner.

Since I acquired my ironhead I've gotten a lot of useful information related to problems and solutions from this website. Big thanks to all the ironhead homies that post on this site, good info here for sure.

My Ironhead is a 1981 sportster XLH 1000 with 30k and I picked her up for 1,500
in the NJ area

Below is a picture from the first test ride after getting it running
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Howdy and welcome. Good pick on the year in my personal opinion. Runs a oil cooler to.
Grinned about the battery tie down. Wonder about the motor numbers though. But I guess they changed how they did it vs my 1980 engine VIN.

Edit: Oil filter setup is the same as my 1980 though.
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Welcome to the XLForum. Thanks for posting a picture of your ride. We love pictures.

(But, can you reduce the size to 1000px wide or less? That would make it fit better. TIA!)


This is THE BEST Sportster Resource!

Take a minute and please put at least your state/country in the LOCATION FIELD of your profile so we can better help you when you need it - Your climate, temps & altitude can make a difference to suggested fixes... (the STATE FIELD does not show on posts so you need to use the LOCATION FIELD)...

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