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Feb 23, 2009 | 12:20 AM

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db252

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Originally Posted by cbz1200n

I am with Gary on this one. Your problems have nothing to do with the starter, that is a non issue and I wonder why it was brought up? The inner primary was an 06' issue? The components that have been replaced should have nominal wear for 20k miles and this should be a real concern for all! If you have been running Red Line all this time then maybe this is a problem, no?
I would really question the cause of all this damage!!!!!!
CB

Don't know if I'm reading you right but I was never implying the the starter/flywheel issue was my problem. It was just that you can see some very minor wear on the flywheel under close inspection. My problem without a doubt was the broken tooth on the compensator sprocket and the broken teeth within my inner clutch hub. They are over replacing parts because they are being extremely thorough and generous in my opinion. Truthfully, there is probably no real reason for them to replace as much as they are other than the actual 'broken' parts. I would expect that damage from one part was the cause of breaking the other part and just bad luck, not an oil that has a much longer history than running in my bike. Going back to the starter/flywheel topic, they were actually trying to find a way to replace the flywheel which comes as a complete unit with a clutch as well for me but they just couldn't justify it enough and I am in 100% agreement with them; maybe I explained it wrong the first time cause it looked great to me. I am very impressed with the folks at my dealership at how thorough they are in looking for the slightest imperfection and wanting to take care of it. Another thing is that they let me watch from start to finish if I want....don't know if that is the case in many other places. I'm good with it.

I'll be back with a report.

Feb 23, 2009 | 04:16 AM

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domenicp7

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From: Kalaui Kona HI

We will find that failing Compensator problems will occur with the stock compensator. It should not have been there in the first place. The extra stress of the 103 or 110 could be the cause of early reporting as we are seeing now. I am going to take a closer look at the one the came out of my bike but I didn't see any broken parts when I first looked at it.