1932 RL 45 -
First Year
Offered
- Cylinders now
designed with air space between the barrels and exhaust ports
- Full baffle
under each cylinder, rear baffle has 6 holes
- New larger
flywheels, crankcases, aluminum pistons, stronger valve springs,
thicker cushion rings made of vanadium steel matched to thicker guide
rings, piston-pin lock rings, longer connecting rods with bronze bush
upper bearings, crankcase breathing redesigned and improved (rear
exhaust cam gear shaft now used to help vent crankcase pressure), inlet
and exhaust cam gears and shafts
- Gear case cover
designed with an air-venting section,
- Gear case cover
redesigned around new oil-pump body, heavier duty oil pump body,
stronger disk hinge pin and a lighter plunger spring, removable without
removing gear case cover
- Horizontally
mounted generator with larger brushes, producing a more uniform current
- oil bath for
gear-side ball bearing of generator
- Four-plate
clutch using a splined outer disc
- Throw out
bearing made of a 3 piece sandwiched bearing assembly
- New front
chainguard
- Longer
nickle-plated air intake pipe
- Gas strainer on
carberator
- Double-curved
bowed front downtube frame with heavier forging and tubing
- 2-1/2" diameter
muffler with full fishtail
- Rear brake
anchorage redesigned to make wheel easy to remove meaning that the rear
wheel is readily removable
- Exhaust pipes
and muffler painted with special high temp black paint
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