Did it myself and I'm all done. I finished last weekend. Once I figured out what I needed to put together a install and removal tool I was good to go. Deff. not a job I want to do again anytime soon. I'm still not sure what caused the bearing to fail, but it was shot. All of the ***** and races were pitted and scorn.

 

LMAO! You snarfed beer?! Did you feel the burn? lol

 

That sucks, glad you got it fixed!!

 

zgood job fixing it yourself. I wonder how much money on labor you saved?

 

The main thing is keeping the contamination out of the rest of the tranny. Sounds like you did a good job. I have made gear and bearing pullers out of floor jacks with plates welded to them, all kind of "McGyver" style tools. Sometimes you have to make do with what you have.

Advance Auto and AutoZone have loaner tool programs. They have just about every tool you can imagine. Just put a deposit down and you get 100% of it back. Cheaper to keep them and let the deposit go sometimes than to go buy the tools, but I have never done it yet.

 

I would guess it's a 6-7 hr. job for someone who's done it before. I just did a few hours here a few there and alot of that time was staring at the bike drinking beer. I did go to my local dealer and asked the service guy if he would rent me the MDG puller and he just kinda laughed. Then the jack hole argued with me that the trans. pulley nut is lefthand thread. Then he looked at me like I was an idiot when I told him I'd build my own puller. What a dick.

 

Excellent repair! One thing I would do is maybe flush out the trans 1-2 times with some cheap 80w90 gear oil or even 20w50 motor oil by running it 50-100 miles and then draining before you put the 75w140 in. BTW, you are using a 75w140 or higher gear oil in your trans right?

 

Different conversation, different dealer but same results I had with a local one here, and it brings to mind an old commerical, it was either discount tire or big o tire years ago that had this little old lady bitching about the price or service and she threw the tire through the front window of the shop. Your post reminds me of my experience and could just see you throwing that stock 32tooth pulley, through the front window of your hd dealer with a note attached to it, saying here's your sign f%^k nuts, even better throw that damn socket you made through the window, it'd probably take out the dyno machine, lol hahaha.

 

I've been running Redline Shockproof Heavy fro the last couple of years. I bought some cheap gear oil and ran that for about 20 miles and drained it. I have Redline back in now, and will probly drain that after about 200 or so and then refill with Redline.

 

Just out of curiosity, did you strain the old oil? Did you count the bearings, to make sure no ***** were loose inside anywhere?