Always hear about the bad cam followers in the twin cams....when do they usually go bad, or when (mileage) have you replaced them?

 

this is the first i have heard of that... where have you heard this info

 

Was told by several people to go to gear driven because of epic failure of cam chain followers sometimes by 15,000 miles in the 88" motors...

 

I took my "00 apart with 36K miles and could have gotten more miles out of them. On the other hand I checked my '03 that had 14k and they looked worse, so I went with a Screamin Eagle hydraulic setup on both bikes. It was easy to do myself. Check the tensioner shoes and go from there. Gear drive is more expensive to do, plus you have to check that your crank runout is within specs. I personally don't know of anyone that has had a catastrophic failure. Not to say that it can't happen. A lot of threads on the Forum about this subject, do a search.

 

In my Dyna they were shot at 33K. Ready to crack and break off. They are cam chain tensioners. In my softail they were still ok at 40K but I replaced them anyway.

 

At 52k mine were metal to metal.

 

i had the same situation at about the same milage it was good excuse to do the 95 and head work and change to gear drive if the crank specs out,
no problem on my 02

 

Just redid mine last week, 05 dyna with 17k and they were pretty well worn. Glad i did it no more worrying about them

Pix of mine are here

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/membe...-big-bore.html

 

ahhh the cam chain tensioners i am with ya now

 

Mine were done at 25k, and my friends were out at 22k, my friend lost the lifters and cams also oil pump as he waited to long.