I'm down In Daytona now, maybe forever if my wife has her say. Thar 127" Ultima of my friends went past my last nerve, it started with a problem with a head gasket when the motor was first installed, then a year later the base gasket blew, and when we reassembled that it turns out that the head bolt simply broke during reassembly.

They may be a less expensive alternative but unless some one really knew what they are doing I would recomend staying away from them. I couldn't imagine what the shop bill would be on all of that work.

 

Great thread here, thanks to all for the informative and interesting details. I had tried starting a thread about my 100" Ultima and was politely informed (Thanks Mr. Brown) to do a search (which I should have done in the first place). Anyway, my issue seems rather tame after reading all this. The motor has been in my bike for about a year and the noise has always bothered me. Sounds to me like the lifters but I admit I may be the least qualified as far as working on my own. I have done only a little of my own work and most of that on cars, so in conclusion I guess I should be satisfied with the motor so far, since it has been very reliable, just noisy.
Glad I found this thread, it has me considering new parts at some point but since I only ride four or five thousand miles a year and fairly mellow at that perhaps I should just ride it til it breaks.

 

 

Wasn't meant to embarrass you..... And I was assuming you are a mister. No offense if not.

 

Hi JC! No worries mate, as they say in Oz (Australia).

 

Well I am hoping for a trouble free summer of riding, I like the 127 performance but after last years problems am gunshy of the engine and its durability, once again I hope for a summer of trouble free riding.

 

Just wanted to share my experience with Ultima. Owned a 127 w/ 0 problems and sold it at 3k miles. Owned a 113 with 0 miles and sold at 6k miles. I have a friend who has run a shop for the past 7 years and has sold well over a hundred ultima engines and he has had very few problems with them.

 

Have had a problem the last couple of years, bike seams to run great till it gets 75+ degrees, I can be riding down the road and the engine will stop, pull off to the side of the road, start it up, go a couple of miles and same thing, has original Ultima, by the way it is a 127, ignition.Last night after 4 th stop, it would not start, pulled cone cover off, let it cool down a while, was about 7 pm, rode home. Am told it is probably the ignition module, 3 years old, less than 5,000 miles. Any thoughts, thanks.

 

We replaced our non-programable ignition with an Ultima programmable ignition which is a re-branded dyna and we are very happy with it. We ar erunning a 120" engine. Hope this helps.

 

John, am leaning towards the ignition module, put heat to it yesterday w/heat gun, for 5 minutes, could not get it to shut down, spose that doesn't mean a lot. Have tanlk off going tho check all connections and all gas lines and fittings, vapor lock is a considerstion I spose, will hunt it down 1 way or another, thanks, loved the BP coffee spill video. lol