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Remember that parking lot maneuvering with long buckhorn or pullbacks means the turns are a long reach and a worse forward stance.  Drag or a more conventional bar on pullback dog-bones may be a better solution.  With that comes another set of problems though.  With the loss of leverage it means with a heavy front end or wheel a bit of exercise at slow speeds or parking will be the norm and not for the weak.

Well I've never actually measured it but I always thought cross hatching was supposed to 60 degrees. I have never honed a cylinder myself. I have had it done at shops and I have also bought fresh cylinders. Just eyeballing it's always looked to me to about 60 degrees. I'm talking about the horizontal section of the "X". That'd be 30 on that plastic gauge? Whatever, I knew cross hatching was associated with ring seal but I did not know/never thought about cross hatch angle affecting ring rotation speed. Makes perfect sense. Thanks for exercising my grey matter!

6 bend pull backs

The distinction is generally that a tapered header pipe uses the tapered style gasket 65324-83B, most OEM pipes use these. And the square ended header pipe, most performance systems use the 17048-98 flat gasket.

You may want to take a close look at the Gasket.
Does it look like it's Beveled/Tapered around the Inside Round Edge?  Or Flat?

There are two different styles like mentioned above...
I believe that the year of that FXRP came with the Beveled/Tapered Style, but I could be wrong.
The Beveled/Tapered is HD Part #65324-88.
The Flat is HD Part #17048-98.
They usually come in Sets of 2 and are relatively in-expensive.

You may want to consider replacing both Exhaust Gaskets at this time seeing that You are in the neighborhood.

What bars will work on a 2016 switchback without changing cables and brake lines? For instance like Softail or similar to get the bars so the lady would be setting up straighter instead of leanining into the stock ones,Thanks for any suggestions.

Working on friend's 1990 FXRP.  Had to pull the rear pipe to access clutch cover.  Need to order an exhaust gasket but not totally sure which style to get.  She doesn't know the pipe mfr, all I know is they're straight pipes.   

Here's a pic of the pipe end.  Also attached a pic of what's left of the old gasket.   I think it's a square-style gasket  but wanted to be sure.  Thanks. 

Finally got the shaft out.  Vice grips on the right side of the shaft, and hex tip in the clutch adjusting screw with a 3/8 drive ratchet.  The spin weld broke easier than I expected, thankfully. Sorry for the poor photo. 

I still can't find any trace of the vaporized wafer bearing.  Trans oil was clean (filtered it thru cheesecloth), drain mag had only moderate dust, clutch cover insides were clean.  Looking into the trans oil passage, between trap door brgs, with a flashlight, what I can see looks clean.  Might try to snake a small magnet into the oil passage, and see if anything gets picked up.  Still thinking about pulling the top cover to get a better look inside the trans.

I see alot of after market suppliers of the pushrod(s).  Does anyone know if any of the after market rods are of acceptable quality?  Not sure how easy it'll be to find OEM rods.  Thanks for the help.