That could be said of any other brand of part we fit! How many people fit after-market mufflers and don't retune their bike?

 

as my owners manual reads the MOCO has to declare that your aftermarket part was the cause of the failure of the original part. your bike should still cover the warranty except on the motor mounts because you are directly affecting them but that should be all thats really going to be out of warranty if you do the upgrade

 

Stay out of the service department.
If you dont have the service manual get one and do as much work on the bike as you can by yourself.

 

A TT kit reduces lateral loads on the motor mounts, so they get an easier life and should give longer service!

 

ordered mine today. If you are considering one they are giving Sturgis sales prices to phone orders.

 

I just put some miles on my wife's '05 Dyna today, which I don't do often. It is lowered (she's only 5'-3"), so I scrape the mufflers on the one side and the passenger peg mount on the other, which is bad enough, but then hitting a bump in a turn at 50 or so mph ad the wallowing starts, just like on my Road King... "Dammit!" says I, "This thing does it, too!" And the shocks are worn out, near as I can figure. Now, I didn't change the preload, which I should have done, as I have 65 or so lbs on her, but it shouldn't bounce down the road after a bump, regardless.

Groan,,, I guess hers is up for the Ohlins/stabilizer upgrade as well (just put Ohlins shocks on the Road King and have a stabilizer on the way). When I got back to the house I crawled around on the floor checking things out and realized this damned thing doesn't even have a link on the front! Now that I'm thinking about it, several things are explained:

1. Since new, this bike has had a vibration when accelerating through turns that it doesn't have under similar acceleration in a straight line. This "turn vibration" feels like a bad motor mount (which have also been replaced once in its life, so far, and is undoubtedly due for again at 28,000 miles). I suspect what is happening is the motor mounts are hitting themselves (meaning the inner hard mount is hitting the outer hard mount, which are normally isolated from each other by the rubber between) because the engine has twisted in the frame and is being "torqued" under acceleration. No doubt lateral stabilizers will cure this.

2. I had heard Dynas are supposed to be great handling bikes, and the frames look pretty stout, with their square tube backbone (compared to my old Ironhead, that thing's frame looked spindly and fragile compared to the Dyna... and I raked and stretched that!). But I have never been able to really throw this bike into a corner, not ever. Partly because it's lowered and parts hit, but it just feels sluggish to me. My bagger handles better! I always thought it was just me, I'm not used to it, etc. Looking at it now, and realizing that the Road King has a stabilizer on the front and top (missing one on the rear, until next week when my stabilizer arrives); the Dyna has one only on the top. This motor/trans swingarm must really move around!

3. I regularly peg the speedo on my Road King, in a straight line. I've tried the same thing on my wife's Dyna and I always chicken out approaching 110: The front end just weaves, it's too damned scary. Hospital Hop is not a dance I like to do, thank you very much... spent summer of '10 in a wheelchair after such a dance... I bet that weaving is the result of the rear steer!

So does anyone make better motor mounts? The replacements are HD parts, and have done better than the originals, but... I'm wondering if Sta-Bo, or somebody like that makes decent mounts. Gotta do some digging on that.

I, too, tried to get the motor mounts replaced under warranty. The center of the front mount was resting on the bottom of the outer mount... but still they wouldn't warranty it because is wasn't torn. What a bunch of crap! The replacements must have been of updated material because the front mount still hasn't sagged like that, but i'm sure it's tired.

Fortunately, my wife is a fairly sedate rider, but I bet she gets more confident with a True Track or Sputhe stabilizer. We will find out before too long!

 

Dealer bullsh!t. The MoCo has to prove that the "aftermarket" part caused whatever failure to occur. Enter the Magnuson-Moss warranty act of 175.

 

I just took my True track off my 08 Streetbob to trade her for the new 2012 Streetglide and **** riding it to the dealers this morning without the true track on was a whole new experience.
True track works real good! Like chalk and cheese really!!!

 

My 2007 Dyna has the weave. Will upgrade to progressive springs before I try the True track, but I guess it's on the cards

 

Fit the TT first. You won't regret it!