Removing the Cover and Accessing the Motor

I'm going to let Steven take it from here. We're going to pull the motor out, everything's unbolted, ready to go. Apparently, it was too heavy, Rich said something about he got his manicure done and didn't want to tamper with his fingers. You don't touch that kind of thing, yeah, yeah, Sean, you're guessing what this weighs? Think straight up, hundred pounds, 100 and change, give it a lift, stephen. No, no, nope, well, that will work too.

Yeah, beautiful, all right here comes the transmission, shut it, forget it, steven did a fantastic job not only pulling the motor but cleaning and organizing everything. That was a subtle hint that I need to clean the shop, but he did it for me instead. This is the transmission to the Harley-Davidson, this thing is massive. Forgive me here, I'm not used to working with these large transmissions, I'm used to sport bikes, like my CBR 600 RR, 1000 RR, F4i, other things like that, but this is just a complete monster.

The engine is no isn't exactly small either, but Steven went ahead and actually cleaned the inside, got all the grease and dirt out, and started doing some grinding on the frame a little bit, just to clean it up. We have to start making mounts to house the motor. Speaking of motor, this is the motor we're going to use, it's a 20 kilowatt with 50 kilowatt peak motor by Golden. This is the same motor that was installed in the City EL, that went over 60 miles an hour, this one is considerably larger, more powerful, more torque, and it has an option for liquid cooling, which I'm not sure if we're going to need to use that in this bike yet.

What I want to start doing now is thinking about where I'm going to place the controller. Now the controller is the thing that controls the motor, the problem is a little bit on the larger side, and I'm running out of spaces to put that in the bike. I really would like to put it in the middle here, unfortunately, this is where the 12-volt battery will be located, as well as miscellaneous other wiring. Ideally, I'd like to put it in the actual gas tank, which is the fuel tank for the bike. And if I can put the controller right there, that would be absolutely magic.

Because once we put the motor in the inside, we have to figure out where the batteries are going to go as well. What I'm going to do now is find a clever way to cut this gas tank open to see if I could fit that controller inside. I can't put the controller underneath here because the battery is going to be stacked up pretty high. Hmm, all right, here's the hole that was cut; it's a nice big section at the bottom.

What I'm noticing now is I don't think I could actually fit this in the way I want it to, ideally you'd want it up and down like this. What I'm noticing is because the tank is tapered, it gets thinner and thinner and it goes to the bottom. What I'm going to do, I'm going to have it width-wise, so it'll be side to side like that. Put this in the tank first, there you go, now that that's here, and it's resting on top.

I can easily fit the rest of the tank; exactly where it needs to be. Now, you're probably thinking to yourself, wait a second, Rich, that's kind of high, that's a high-voltage cable going to the top, what are you gonna do about that? That's okay because Harley-Davidson like they always do build things to excess.

Watch this; put this on top there, you go. There's plenty of room for this now. Now what I'm going to do, I'm going to cut around this so there's more room cut some of this excess fat out of here at the side. I'm probably gonna end up cutting it all around here to open this up a little bit and then we're all set.

The motor is going to sit about here; these cables still easily reach to the controller now you're probably thinking about cooling, it's actually okay because this is still open. I'll probably add a fan or two here and it's getting air cooled by front airflow from the bike. This is looking pretty damn good so far.

Let me get the seat action, see what I'm up against; you know, I never liked Harley's but this one's actually starting to grow on me a little bit that there it's actually not that bad-looking once that tank is painted black, obviously it won't be bad, typical Harley behavior.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by get squarespace what was this what just happened whose bike is that me and my ex-boyfriend linda's single again man's been richardvilles.com are you crying oh don't cry what happened what do you mean what happened what was all that whose bike is that what are you doing you left us at the farm and that bike he's irrelevant it doesn't matter so whose bike is that and who's drawn that's irrelevant that doesn't matter anymore steven clearly you heard me arguing right because an idiot i don't understand why guys are like this guys literally don't know how to listen like they have ears okay ears listen okay it's not that difficult it's not that difficult i literally say why are you texting girls why are you dming girls why are you doing anything that involves another woman when you have me me me you know what i mean i don't understand like i don't get it yeah that's crazy see i knew it i knew i was right okay okay let's get some backstory here i want to make fun of harley davidson so bad but i can't it's an american motorcycle manufacturer founded in 1903 that survived the great depression it's really america's motorcycle and let's pretend indian doesn't exist for a second but they are heavy bikes not known for being fast and not known for really using modern technology i mean they are now but they were behind their japanese counterparts for many years what do i mean by that well number one is power to weight they wear damn near 800 pounds and don't make that much power especially the older ones not to mention the massive and heavy six-speed transmission but i guess it doesn't matter because they're cruisers and what does technology matter anyways they still get you down the road it's like imagine floating on a big lazy boy at 60 miles an hour and then coming to a complete stop and burning because you're probably on an air cooled version and the engine uses your body as thermal paste now i know i can't make fun of harley's because they're doing their best but their owners you know where this is going and i'm not gonna do that because i don't want a bunch of men and leather jackets chasing me but harley came out swinging getting tired of being called outdated and not with the times they came out with the live wire holly's first electric motorcycle 105 horsepower and 110 miles an hour for the low low price of thirty thousand dollars now unfortunately zero motors came out with a faster bike with longer range for twenty thousand dollars before harley did and by the way i'm just kind of being a hater because i would totally rock a live wire i mean i drove a rat rod which is the pinnacle of outdated tech but the live wire isn't for your traditional hobby rider it's for people that have 30 grand to spend on the bike from an iconic brand not known for making electric bikes who are these people hipsters now the live wire doesn't look like a harley so what if you can take the iconic look of a harley and make it electric to appeal to harley owners the same bikes that race up and down the road at 150 decibels while only making 47 horsepower and get away with it because loud pipes save lives the same people that love their music so much they want you to hear it too and i gotta say i've never heard a louder audio system than that on a harley davidson nice job harley i mean really so we're gonna make an electric harley davidson that looks like a harley and we're gonna let the world know by using squarespace it's easy to claim a domain or a url like www.can someone remind me why holley's take premium gas again when their competitors have higher compression use 87.com or www.4 mortgages on a house to buy a motorcycle seems legitimate when hana makes the same bike for halfoff.com so then you can create a custom site that matches your style enthusiasm check out these page templates because it'll make your web page look better than the face of our holly owner makes when his bike gets out of the shop for a simple repair head to www.squarespace.com that's richard builds to save 10 off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code in description box below shout out to squarespace for making platforms people's passions no matter how loud their passion is now i'm not going to lie i actually think this is kind of cool so i'm going to play this one more time thank you for that that long-winded story you asked yeah but it was it was it was a little there's a lot of wind in verbose storm what are you doing you're here hi nice to see you we didn't know you were coming today but there's also a motorcycle and uh yeah so which one of you guys want to teach me how to ride that thing and i want to ride it like i stole it yeah not like that she's not it's like i've never seen anyone ride anything we're wearing that what do you want me to do i'm not a horse you're not worse than that that's what i'm saying i have an idea see that's even worse what i mean what do you mean it doesn't seem like how is this worse she's like a hot dog she's like a square they're called a squid you're supposed to wear leather yeah but that top is a little exposed you're gonna get hurt yeah you can lose one of those things come on like i've been waiting for you guys forever are you guys what are you doing are you eating this is why i'm always waiting for you i'm a biker now i'm a biker now got my leather what how many what's the inches on these heels probably three or four yeah i think this is the right helmet well tighten her up yeah that on tight not as okay but they call that a brain bucket live to ride ride to live okay i love that so you think that i would be like accepted into their little plan their club team not with those marks what do you mean what are you talking about oh my cups no those usb-c ports you got going back in what does that look like that was so funny i feel like this weighs 8 times 20. you feel comfortable yeah you want to go off on your own or what front brake rear brake clutch oh that's when i shift the gear things right does your heel fit in this that's the real question oh wow these are like fashion shoes not bike things yeah they're leather usually you have like a little steel thing here but that's your that's your toe yeah that's a real toe yeah we can't focus on her people like yeah if we focus on her feet people aren't yeah front brake back brake i've got my clutch i got my shifter thingies down there it's going to kill my ankles maybe buckle your helmet and then huh maybe buckley but i'm not going anywhere right now oh my gosh it has a cd like a cassette player i still have old cassettes really yeah like when i used to listen to selena i love selena okay all right um the kickstand just uh dances it just falls down whenever it feels like it well with agent that'll happen stephen i heard is that is that true yeah the older you get yeah the worse it gets man it just kind of starts flopping all over the place and not me but friends i know right yeah yeah so linda how was it um amazing this is really loud i like things that are like more quiet yeah because i'm loud so i don't want to be yes you yes you are yeah um it's really hot it is really really cool so harleys are air cooled so you have to keep moving at all times or else you'll you'll just burn to death on the highway this is why you wear those pants though because the pipes over on this side yep you just burn the leather pants that's what that's for i didn't know that's what it was for i just always see them wearing leather so i copied so i think you should do something with this okay well who's whose bike is it though is it your body doesn't matter irrelevant okay because now it's yours okay yeah is there any like is there a title associated with it at all yeah is i think you should do something with it get rid of how loud it is yep enough of that and then if you can get rid of how loud it is mix with how hot it gets this smells terrible you think so tens of thousands of people have harley motorcycles okay well they all smell sorry wow so sorry bold statement i know i get it i mean i understand the whole hype and stuff but they smell i don't want to be hot and uh earplugs so everything harley represents you want to just get rid of the smell the overheating yeah the poor maintenance expensive maintenance reliability yep do you like the chrome at least before modification you must water the vehicle well it's hot because harley davidsons are they aren't liquid cooled no the air cooled so we're actually going to add our own liquid to it as you can see here look at this this is liquid and it burns it burns once again as you saw this engine runs so management rebuilds yep anybody wants it it's runs on duncan linda for some reason she's upset with the smell the sound and all that everything that makes her harley a harley she doesn't want anymore yeah which is quite sad stephen i'm gonna exercise my right to not use a helmet because we're in america but it's more specifically we're in a state that doesn't require help pretty much yes actually that's that's what you really meant to say all right let's go for it i mean the state motto is live free or die right so you're probably if you're not if you're not living free well you're just dying what's it called live for your diet trying or get rich in that you just merged 50 cents you stay in new hampshire together yeah i like it uh all right it's a good mashup yeah yeah that's that's that's fine it's like a little bit awesome oh my goodness for those that don't know rich versus an extensive collection of motorcycles he's a writer especially in these uh what are those dude these are my crocs baby terrible all right what are you doing i'm a hollywriter yeah that's actually that's pretty awesome yeah only you didn't have really terrible inaudible music yeah right yeah you were missing some ac dc sometimes highway to hell so what oh actually oh you gotta check this what's in here i don't think it works no it's not a long time ago do you think it's ac dc yeah this thing is equine that's declined i have no idea what's in there the humans they enjoy this the the overweight americans they they enjoy this that's what you meant to say prepare to be disappointed you're used to a very certain kind of speed it's a very comfortable bike it's really like a lazy boy and i understand now i see all those people on harleys that fit certain descriptions i understand why they like this what kind of descriptions i told you earlier already i don't wanna i don't hate repeating myself stephen you're not redundant already i get it now it's not a very fast bike but it has torque no real power it's heavy for no reason and linda's riding is loud so let's get to it i suppose right okay i should get back to work shouldn't i i just want to say that this bike was a royal pain to take apart uh this is coming from a guy that is used to riding sport bikes uh you have to take off the fake chrome exhaust covers apparently i actually thought that this exhaust was a bright polished metal and i was wrong and my whole life as a line-out now these bags are pretty easy to take off the second thing you have to do is take off the rear section of the exhaust which is actually polished which is weird and the engine transmission cover comes off and proceed to drain like nine gallons of oil out of the motor i mean i've seen honda civics with less oil capacity then drain the gas tank which actually holds a lot more than i thought and then make sure to spill some oil on the ground too if you can after you remove this remove the cover the chain and the gear sets remove all the accessories like the starter and the main links between the engine and transmission and i'm not gonna lie i kind of lost interest here i'm gonna let steven take it from here we're gonna pull the motor out everything's unbolted ready to go apparently it was too heavy and rich said something about he got his manicure done and didn't want to tamper with his fingers you don't not in this yeah yeah sean you're guessing what this weighs you think straight up hundred pounds 100 and change give it a lift stephen no no nope well that will work too yeah that's uh it's pretty heavy ready go ahead yeah beautiful all right here comes the transmission shut it forget it steven did a fantastic job not only pulling the motor but cleaning and organizing everything that was a subtle hint that i need to clean the shop but he did it for me instead this is the transmission to the harley-davidson this thing is massive forgive me here i'm not used to working with these large transmissions i'm used to sport bikes i had a cbr 600 rr 1000 rr f4i other things like that but this is just a complete monster the engine is no isn't exactly small either but steven went ahead and actually cleaned the inside got all the grease and dirt out and started doing some grinding on the frame a little bit just to clean it up we have to start making mounts to house the motor speaking of motor this is the motor we're going to use it is a 20 kilowatt with 50 kilowatt peak motor by golden this is the same motor that was installed in the city el that went over 60 miles an hour this one is considerably larger more powerful more torque and it has an option for liquid cooling which i'm not sure if we're going to need to use that in this bike yet what i want to start doing now is thinking about where i'm going to place the controller now the controller is the thing that controls the motor the problem is a little bit on the larger side and i'm running out of spaces to put that in the bike i really would like to put it in the middle here unfortunately this is where the 12 volt battery as long as well as miscellaneous other wiring is going ideally i'd like to put it in the actual gas tank that is the fuel tank for the bike and it going right here would be absolutely magic because once we put the motor in the inside we have to figure out where the batteries are going to go as well what i'm going to do now is find a clever way to cut this gas tank open to see if i could fit that controller inside i can't put the controller underneath here either because the battery is going to be stacked up pretty high hmm all right here's the hole that was cut it's a nice big section at the bottom what i'm noticing now is i don't think i could actually fit this in the way i want it to ideally you'd want it up and down like this what i'm noticing is because the tank is tapered it gets thinner and thinner and it goes to the bottom what i'm going to do i'm going to have it width wise so it'll be side to side like this put this in the tank first there you go now that that's here and it's resting on top i can easily fit the rest of the tank that's exactly where it needs to be now you're probably thinking to yourself wait a second richard that's kind of high that's a high voltage cable going to the top what are you gonna do about that that's almost touching the tank that's okay because harley like they always do build things to excess watch this you put this on top there you go there's plenty of room for this now now what i'm going to do i'm going to cut around this so there's more room cut some of this excess fat out of here at the side i'm probably gonna end up cutting it all around here to open this up a little bit and then we're all set the motor is gonna sit about here these cables still easily reach to the controller now you're probably thinking about cooling it's actually okay because this is still open i'll probably add a fan or two here and it's getting air cooled by front airflow from the bike this is looking pretty damn good so far let me get the seat action see what i'm up against you know i never liked harley's but this one's actually starting to grow on me a little bit that there it's actually not that bad looking once that tank is painted black obviously it won't be bad typical harley behavior harley tings all right until next week i want to get the batteries in and see what the next steps are\n"