Dennis Santopietro

How To Use the Fix My Hog Website

April 28, 2021 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Harley Tips.

START HERE! We posted this video to help you navigate Fix My Hog and find what you need to maintain and customize your Hog. Please watch it and let us know what you think about our site and videos. We also posted a video on How To Search Fix My Hog Here’s a video on…

How to Fix Your Harley Wobble

April 28, 2021 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Harley Tips.

Some call it the Harley Wobble, others call it the Death Wobble. However, most never experience it but we all have heard of the Harley Wobble. Before getting into it, here are just a couple of the many questions we have received on the Harley Wobble since Fix My Hog started back in 2004. 1.…

Motorcycle Shippers Delivers FMH Harley Café Racer to Happy Rider

July 27, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Articles on Harley-Davidson How-to and More.

MotorcycleShippers.com brings the Café Racer to a happy rider. A conversation that starts with “What If” can twist and turn down so many roads before coming out the other end. I was having a chat with our guy, Nate Beck, about his recent quest to buy a chopper. He had just finished documenting the experience…

Jackshaft Sticks

May 13, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Harley Tips.

2001 Springer Softail I changed the starter, which I have done on so many bikes in the past, and am trying to make sure everything worked before I put the primary back together. When I hit the starter switch the jackshaft engages the ring get but sticks and does not return into the recess when…

Key Icon Stays On

May 13, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Harley Tips.

2008 Harley Ultra Classic FLUTCU Red Key Light stays on, bike does start and light stays on. My accessories fuse keeps blowing as soon as I turn key on. All lights but blinkers don’t. Can you help or is it a no-go at this station? Via Email The key icon will commonly stay illuminated if…

Helmet – Skull to Full Face

April 17, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Articles on Harley-Davidson How-to and More.

I’m like a crocodile or more like a slug when it comes to evolution. I’m slow to change my riding ways. I don’t think I’m old school but when my 14 year old son says something like “Yeah man that’s so old, it’s from like the ’80s.” Ouch, those were some of my prime time…

Bel-Ray the Official 2020 Motor Oil Partner of Fix My Hog

March 3, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Articles on Harley-Davidson How-to and More.

The Life Blood of Your Hog Sure gas fires the engine that spins the crank but what about all those moving parts? One of the major components of any service is lubrication. We need to remove the dirty fluids that lubricate our moving parts and refresh them with clean ones. This is why we are…

Front Signals Not Flashing

February 23, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Harley Tips.

1999 Fatboy after getting my bike back from some other work done by mechanic my front signals are lit up but don’t flash, rear does. Question is what is the cause or remedy to this issue? Via Email It is important to remember that your front signals are also running lights. They use an 1157…

Sal’s Story

February 7, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Tell Us Your Harley Story.

My Dad’s stories were a big part of my interest in Harleys and starting Fix My Hog. Here’s his story (well one of them). The year was 1956 and seven club members of the Sinners motorcycle club left Litchfield, Conn. for Canada. My ride was a 1948 full dress Harley, that I still own, (funny…

Tom’s Cripple Creek Story

February 7, 2020 By Dennis Santopietro & filed under Tell Us Your Harley Story.

I first became interested in Harley’s when I was a little kid in the 1960’s. My older sister was married to a member of a club who used to come by and pick me up on weekends on his bike. When he passed away in 1979 he left me a “basket case” 1953 Panhead that…