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Wilson the original CE rectifier & the HD in both positions the fins are horizontal. I dont have the ugly fan kit on my car & never experienced skip fire. I'm hardly ever stuck in traffic with M3W.
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Very few bikes are sold with fans. Many bikes have active oil coolers instead. If you can keep the oil cool it will help keep the engine cool.
Cooling fans for bikes are an add-on for use in parades and/or funeral processions.
What's your mileage? Who cares. Is it practical? See #1. What happens when it rains? You get wet.
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I don't think I would worry too much about the orientation of the regulator and its fins. The change from the early cars to the later ones was more that the location changed from bolted (via rubber bobbins) on to the crankcase to being mounted to the chassis. The idea being less vibration getting to the regulator. The reality was a possible and arguable slight improvement in longevity but it would have been more down to less flexing and chafing of the cheap and nasty cables that the original regulator is fitted with. I'll add that when my first regulator failed I fitted my cheap and nasty Chinese eBay special HD clone which performed admirably for a short while till the car was back at the factory for an unrelated warranty issue when they in turn replaced it with a shiny new original spec one. This lasted rather less time than the original and was in turn replaced again with the C&N special which is still giving sterling service rather a lot of miles later. I do have a second C&N regulator wrapped in bubble wrap and a zip lock bag bungied into place below the front cowl just in case of anyone tempting fate... 
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I'll chip in with a big ditto on what he said (Calum). The position of the H-D unit on bikes is left to the whims of where will it fit instead of where is the best cooling. The other thing is that if you mount it directly on the steel plate very snug the plate itself acts as another heat sink quite nicely.
What's your mileage? Who cares. Is it practical? See #1. What happens when it rains? You get wet.
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Wilson if you could grace us with some part numbers for those Aeroquip 150º oil lines it would be greatly appreciated!
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I don't think I would worry too much about the orientation of the regulator and its fins. The change from the early cars to the later ones was more that the location changed from bolted (via rubber bobbins) on to the crankcase to being mounted to the chassis. The idea being less vibration getting to the regulator. The reality was a possible and arguable slight improvement in longevity but it would have been more down to less flexing and chafing of the cheap and nasty cables that the original regulator is fitted with. I'll add that when my first regulator failed I fitted my cheap and nasty Chinese eBay special HD clone which performed admirably for a short while till the car was back at the factory for an unrelated warranty issue when they in turn replaced it with a shiny new original spec one. This lasted rather less time than the original and was in turn replaced again with the C&N special which is still giving sterling service rather a lot of miles later. I do have a second C&N regulator wrapped in bubble wrap and a zip lock bag bungied into place below the front cowl just in case of anyone tempting fate... I am a big believer in having lots of spares readily available. We do this on our very well prepared rough road/third world classic rallying pagoda Mercedes 280SL, where we carry almost enough spares to build another car. In reverse Murphy's law, if you have the spare part with you, the original will almost never break or fail. I may order a genuine Harley one from the USA, as they are no more than the Chinese copies via Amazon France. My son in law can buy it for me and send it over as a second hand part. Wilson
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Wilson the original CE rectifier & the HD in both positions the fins are horizontal. I dont have the ugly fan kit on my car & never experienced skip fire. I'm hardly ever stuck in traffic with M3W.
Tim Tim, From my knowledge of having been born and brought up in Keith, Moray, it is a tad cooler up there than where my M3W is in the south of France :-) Wilson
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Wilson, is Motul oil designed for the S&S V twin? I believe "V Twin oil" as S&S suggests has ZDDP (Zinc) in it for the anti wear properties. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I always use Mobile One V twin oil--it says on the label for V twins
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There is a Motul Oil designed for these type of engines, Motul 7100 4T 20W/50 V-Twin fully synthetic. Very reasonably priced from Opie oils in the UK. Mobile 1 V-Twin is not readily available here and usually has to come from the USA.
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