Cam Changeout '14 Limited Second Thoughts

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Oct 16, 2016 | 12:39 PM

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GalvTexGuy

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Originally Posted by qtrracer

You don't have to pull the heads. Just the rocker boxes and rocker arms to get the push rods out, then they come out the top. Guys do it all the time that prefer solids over adjustables. No need to cut the push rods, but if a guy has adjustables to replace the solids then a guy can save time by cutting the solids and leaving the rockers alone(and fuel tank). I'm not familiar with the cams you installed to know if the oem pr's would be ok or not to use with the oem stack up of parts.

That's clear. Yeah, I had absolutely no experience to fall back on before this, so I was trying to keep it as simple and easy as possible. Cutting out the pushrods seemed to be what everything I read said to do, so that's what I did. I have no idea whether or not the 48H cams would have worked with the OEM pushrods, but I had already purchased the S&S adjustable pushrods, so that's what I used. The bike runs great, so I'm happy with the route I took and the parts I selected.