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| - | ====== History:Doc 01c ====== | + | ====== Sportster History - Sub-01C ====== |
| - | ====== Factory Service Manual (FSM) for Sportsters ====== | + | |
| - | AKA Field Service Manual ((Sportsterdoc)) | + | |
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| - | * In 1959, HD implements a Service Manual program consisting of a Master Service Manual (dealer only item) covering the complete model line and manuals for individual models that anyone could buy. ((HD Service Bulletin #403 dated December 15, 1958)) ((HD Service Bulletin #415 dated February 15, 1960 pg OA-1 ((HD Service Bulletin #456 dated December 7, 1961 pg OA-1)) ((HD Service Bulletin #470 dated January 31, 1963 pg OA-1)) ((HD Service Bulletin #495dated September 18, 1965 pg OA-1)) | + | |
| - | * Each service manual contains maintenance and repair information for the model covered. Pages are loose leaf bound to allow pages to be added or taken out. | + | |
| - | * __The Master Service manual__ is divided into seven different informational sections including: ((HD Service Bulletin #403 dated December 15, 1958 pg OA-1)) | + | |
| - | * Dealer - section 0: This section is for Service Bulletins and updates from the MoCo. | + | |
| - | * Product - section 1 | + | |
| - | * Chassis - section 2 | + | |
| - | * Engine - section 3 | + | |
| - | * Transmission - section 4 | + | |
| - | * Electrical - section 5 | + | |
| - | * Miscellaneous - section 6 | + | |
| - | * Supplements were published in each succeeding model season to update any new changes / procedures for new models to the service manuals and were easily adaptable with the loose leaf page system. Supplements were also published for entirely new models for insertion into the Master Service Manual. | + | |
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| - | |Factory Master Service Manual (all models)||| | + | |
| - | |99480-59|1957-1959|Duo Glide, Sportster, Servi-Car, Model 165 and Hummer| | + | |
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| - | * __The Individual Service Manuals__ could be purchased by anyone from HD dealerships. These manuals cover maintenance and repair information for only one model. They are also divided into sections like the Master Manual but do not have the Dealer section which includes the Service Bulletin information (not intended for the general public to see). These were also loose leaf bound and could be updated with new model year supplements. | + | |
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| - | |Factory Service Manuals for Sportsters||Dealer Price|Individual Price| | + | |
| - | |99484-59|1959, complete manual|$4.00|$5.00| | + | |
| - | |99484-60|1959-1960, complete manual| | + | |
| - | |99485-60|1960, loose leaf supplement|$1.50|$2.00| | + | |
| - | |99484-62|1959 - 1962, complete manual|$4.00|$5.00| | + | |
| - | |99485-62|1962, loose leaf supplement|$1.00|$1.50| | + | |
| - | |99484-63|1959-1963, complete manual|$4.00|$5.00| | + | |
| - | |99485-63|1963, loose leaf supplement|$0.75|$1.00| | + | |
| - | |99485-64|1964, loose leaf supplement| | + | |
| - | |99484-65|1959-1965, complete manual|$4.00|$5.00| | + | |
| - | |99485-65|1965, loose leaf supplement|$1.70|$2.25| | + | |
| + | ====== AMF Acquisition of the Harley Davidson Company ====== | ||
| + | There was quite a bit of uproar over the AMF acquisition of the Harley Davidson Company by enthusiasts. Some have written that this was the beginning of the Dark Ages (reference to the Era of AMF (American Machine and Foundry) ownership of Harley Davidson from 1969-1981) where sales dropped as well as did the reputation of bikes with some claiming they weren't real Harley's anymore. However, the "Dark Ages" is a matter of opinion, not a fact.((Hopper from the XLFORUM https://www.xlforum.net/forum/sportster-motorcycle-forum/sportster-motorcycle-era-specific-and-model-specific/ironhead-sportster-motorcycle-talk-1957-1985/187568-disappointment-with-donny/page8?t=2002757&page=8)) | ||
| + | * Sales did NOT drop during the AMF era. Sportster sales actually soared during the AMF era. Sales fell to dismal lows in the decade before the AMF merger. AMF picked them up again, by a factor of about 10 in the end.((Hopper from the XLFORUM https://www.xlforum.net/forum/sportster-motorcycle-forum/sportster-motorcycle-era-specific-and-model-specific/ironhead-sportster-motorcycle-talk-1957-1985/187568-disappointment-with-donny/page8?t=2002757&page=8)) | ||
| + | * AMF's reputation can't have been too bad if they were selling that many new bikes compared to the previous decade when HD's reputation was supposedly still unviolated.((Hopper from the XLFORUM https://www.xlforum.net/forum/sportster-motorcycle-forum/sportster-motorcycle-era-specific-and-model-specific/ironhead-sportster-motorcycle-talk-1957-1985/187568-disappointment-with-donny/page8?t=2002757&page=8)) | ||
| + | * One interpretation of the facts indicates that AMF quite probably saved HD from extinction. They spent millions on machinery, plant and tooling that HD had never invested, and never would have. In fact, they brought HD manufacturing and marketing methods OUT of the "Dark Ages" that dated back to the 1920s and '30s and into the modern world. That included the special gear-cutting machines that made the first 5-speed transmission possible and most of the R&D that led to the Evo models.((Hopper from the XLFORUM https://www.xlforum.net/forum/sportster-motorcycle-forum/sportster-motorcycle-era-specific-and-model-specific/ironhead-sportster-motorcycle-talk-1957-1985/187568-disappointment-with-donny/page8?t=2002757&page=8)) | ||
| + | * Yes there were quality control problems, mostly early in the AMF era, due in part to the rapid expansion in production numbers and also to labor relations problems related to the adopting of new more efficient work methods etc. (EG, 100 day strike in about 1972). But by the mid to late '70s most of these problems had been addressed and quality was comparatively good for the era, as the continuing rising sales figures testified.((Hopper from the XLFORUM https://www.xlforum.net/forum/sportster-motorcycle-forum/sportster-motorcycle-era-specific-and-model-specific/ironhead-sportster-motorcycle-talk-1957-1985/187568-disappointment-with-donny/page8?t=2002757&page=8)) | ||
| + | * One good source for this particular stuff is "Harley Davidson: An Official History", published circa 1984 by the MoCo, author David Wright. ((Hopper from the XLFORUM https://www.xlforum.net/forum/sportster-motorcycle-forum/sportster-motorcycle-era-specific-and-model-specific/ironhead-sportster-motorcycle-talk-1957-1985/187568-disappointment-with-donny/page8?t=2002757&page=8)) | ||
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