I'm in Colorado. It was warm enough in February that I started taking my 11 FXDC apart.

Today after having it down all this time I buttoned it up and fired it up. Loaded a TTS Mastertune SE Cams and 2 into 1 map. Fired on the first couple of turns. What a relief!

Woods .555 Cams. Woods roller lifters. E Series pushrods. Fuelmoto e series 2 into 1. Went plus six inches on my handlebars so did the magnum chromite cables and stretched the electrics with a great Ebay kit. I had to swap from floorboards to forward controls to accommodate the Fuelmoto pipe. I did all of the work. Just dam, what a ton of work it was.

New tires next weekend and we are ready to begin tuning and dialing it in.

I did a couple of blocks of "installation laps" and what a rocket ship.

I thought I'd be done a month ago. So happy it fired so quick and easy.

 

Nice!

 

Good on ya,

 

Feels good getting her back together and fired up .. did cams/lifters a couple weekends ago, and 500 miler last saturday... feels good !

 

I did a couple of short shakedown rides today. Everything is holding together and working fine. These cams give 100+ FP of torque starting at 3000 and ending at 5000. It pulls evenly from the moment the throttle opens and I can shift within that 2000 rpm band so it up and scoots.

With the new handlebars and forward controls its not familiar yet but I have the cure for that.

Yeah it does feel good. While its not rocket science to put cams in there is a lot of the work that, if not done right, means a lot of re work to fix.

I am already too far into this season to have to do re work.

 

Pics, or it didn't happen

 

Question: is new cams something you recommend taking on after having done it yourself? I'm a pretty dang good wrench with plenty of tools and lots of friends with even more. And I can follow a manual like you read pamphlets about. Death or serious injury may result.

Any specialty items i'd need to take this on?

 

TwinCam bearing puller, and Twincam bearing installer... those are a must-have. Other than that, I found it no problem... manual is pretty clear on the procedure.

 

ARCHERGODWIN has is right, you can get the bearing puller from ebay for about $85. The bearings Harley uses are caged, you can get good quality replacements that are full needle bearings for about $20. As long as you are in there it would be a shame not to replace them.

The only other thing I would recommend is a good quality torque wrench. Its good peace of mind to go a notch better that harbor freight.

I would also recommend you stick with Harley replacement gaskets. I got a "complete gasket kit" from Fuelmoto but side by side comparisons between the ones they sent and the Harley OEM gaskets left the replacements wanting.

There is also an excellent youtube video of a twin cam cam replacement. The mechanic emphasizes the few places that you can screw up like an O gasket that goes between the cam plate and the block. You also have to get the cams aligned to each other with a couple of marks then you have to align the drive gears with a couple of marks on them. Its not hard but if you are off a notch it won't run.

I'll get a pic posted.

 

Here are a couple of pics of the end result.

Today I finished it off and put Pirelli Night Dragons on it, stock sizes. Major tip of the hat to High Country Harley who worked with me on an insane Saturday to mount and balance my tires. There were easily 100 Hogs at High Country all day. The Dyno there was running all day. Packed. Rockin. I am not really a big part of the social scene but its always the best fun to be around hundreds of bikers.

I pulled the rear wheel and delivered it at 10, they called to say mounted and ready to go at 11:15. I live 3 miles east of them but I was on the way. So I pick it up, take it home, install it, jack up the hog and pull the front wheel. I got it to them at 1230. They called at 2 and had it ready to go.

I remounted the front wheel and just went for a quick installation run. Just a mile or two.