Thanks for all the input.  No oil at all.  I will be driving this
vehicle a lot so I
decided to get a Boston Bob rebuild.  I have almost everything off the
engine
and am preparing to lower it out of the vehicle.  I drove it home one
night and
changed the oil to drive it the next day.  I got about 5 miles and had
to
turn back becuase the power dropped way off.  The engine locked up and

wouldn't turn over.  After being towed 3 miles back it started again
later.
There was the loud irregular click thud.  I am recording the removal -
installation
with a digital camera.  I plan on putting it on my web site.

>>> SStones <sstones@IDIRECT.COM> 08/27/02 07:39AM >>>
At 06:14 PM 8/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>1984, stops running after a few minutes.  Periodic nasty click-thud.
>I drained the oil and then took off the oil filter.  No oil in it at
>all.
>The oil level was right.  Is it a defective oil filter?

No oil in the filter at all? I'm thinking that there's got to be
something
terribly wrong with your oil pump, the pick-up tube or where the
filter/cooler are mounted there is some sort of obstruction?
I think you're going to have to start tearing into your oil pump...
Maybe
first, with the oil filter off, hold a glass jar up over the open
filter
nipple while someone cranks the engine for 5 seconds.  If you're not
getting any oil flow there is something really bad happenning. I expect
you
don't want to be running the engine at all, if those 5 seconds don't
show
some flow.