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I know they're German and all engineery and stuff, but the narrow space between the cylinders would worry me. Their inline engines never seemed to be as good as their twins.
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The GS is a boxer twin. The GTL is an inline 6. The inline 6 they have in their automobile line is one of the best motors extant.
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what could go wrong?
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But this 6 has thinner walls and sleeves to make it narrower. That would be my only worry. The twin has proved itself over and over and over and over and over and...
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Very true, I want to say that it's 5 or 6 millimeters between bores.
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Air-cooled VW boxers were great motors. Like many HDs, they ended up worked on by people who had no clue what they were doing and POOF goes the motor.
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For a while there, as rigor set in, he was well and truly turgid....
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Absolutely. The VW flat-fours were bulletproof 'till you got someone monkeying around with them.
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My Dad always tells the story of he and his Dad doing a complete valve job on my Grandfathers Beetle on the side of the road one day. They just dropped the engine, did the work and bolted it back up.
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Heck, now I want to test ride one. I'm gonna try that K1600GTL. I think the dealer has one. I'll check it out today!
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I think the nostalgia over rides what those vehicles ever really were.
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Before everybody starts goin' off in their britches here, y'all might want to get, in writing, what is involved and how often scheduled maintenance is on these, along with the cost of same. I might go so far as to ask them what their hourly shop rate is, too, for anything extra they find "while they're in there".
I somehow don't think that inline 6 (and the rest of the attached Buck Rogers technology) is quite the same as the glorified Brigs & Strattons you're currently used to doing your own maintenance on...
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I'd like to see the quote for the valve adjustment on that 6cyl.
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If I were to ever move away from Harley, it would likely be to a BMW touring model. Those are some hella good machines
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