I have an Sportster 883xl standard 2008. i look to put a kickstart conversion kit on there but as far as i look the origional brands have only for sportsters till 2004 and the remakes on ebay and so those fit 2004 to 2017 sportsters

Is this even possible?

 

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You will have to remove your engine and split the cases to get to your transmission. The older bikes had a trap door to get to the trans. I believe that was 2003 and earlier. yours doesn't .

 

Electric starters have been around since the 1912 Cadillac. What's the point? Even most dirtbikes are 100% electric start today.

John

 

I'm not installing one but could see it being worthwhile if you were building an ultra light Sportster, deleting the starter and going with a small lithium battery would save a lot of weight. That being said my Norton Commando is kick start only and the novelty of kick starting wears off REAL quick ;-)

 

Yeah I rode a 1964 Pan Head kick start only back in the day. I probably couldn't start it today at my age. Cool wears off quickly.