I have a question, I have an 05 Dyna 88 fuel inj. I moved from Florida to Arkansas. I was loading the bike on my trailer and as I dove it up I dumped it. My fault but the bike sputtered and quit running. I hit the front fender and put a big ding in it. I tried to start it again but it was flooded out. I pushed it on the trailer and we did not start it till we got to AR. It ran very rough. I have a 0 deductible on it and it went to the Harley shop for fender repair and the diagnosis on the eng. The shop called and said it was a stuck lifter and that they needed to put new ones in. I just a year ago had the chain drive put in with new lifters. Any ideas what would cause this?

 

Not the dump, unless you bent the pushrod tube, but even then the tube and a new pushrod would be all you need.

sticky lifters would normally happen shortly after a bad rebuild. Another reason would be a lot of oil sludge. Sludge happens when you use plain mineral oil and only drive short distances so the engine never fully warms up. If you use synthetic oil and/or always let your engine get fully warm, you shouldn't see any sludge.

 

I use Mobil 1 always, 20 50 Vtwin. Funny how it was running great and after the dump. The Insurance is picking it up and the shop is putting in new lifters. I am checking on how much extra the decompression cams would be.