Hi all,

Been a member for awhile, first time poster!! I'm looking at finally getting my first Harley!! Looking at 2008 up to a 2012 Street Glide!! And need some Info. Alot of people dis HD's! One guy today , while i was out for a ride, said I'll need to rebuild the engine around 25,000miles.
My Question is first is this TRUE?? and second, how deep do you have to go?? Do i have to machine the Crank and replace the Main Journals?? or just rebuild the top end??

I'd appreciate any info or advise on the 96Cu Engine, or on the 2008 to 2011 Street Glide models!!!

Thanks In Advance!!!


Stang

 

good question 25,000 seems awful low mileage please say its not true.

 

Well I don't own a 98" but do own a 88 and 103

88 has a low 34,000 and runs like a clock, no work other than maintenance

103 has 40,000 plus and lived 15,000 of those as a cop bike, problem free as well

now a buddy of mine has a 88" with 120,000+ never been rebuilt

 

rebuild at 25K?
more like over 100K
My last one was not even broke in yet at 60K

 

I have over 100k on a 88
Maybe a valve job and rings this winter maybe not
I could wait another year or so

 

97,000 and no issues to give me cause to rebuild. Many things to check before you consider a rebuild. Compression and crank runout to name a few.

 

I'm not a fan of the cast crank 96" vs my forged crank 95", but I don't think you 'rebuild them' until you have to go into the bottom end.

I replaced stator/regulators at 32,000 and 53,000 miles, Heads and exhaust at 67,000 miles, and switched to gear drive cams at 81,000 miles.

When the time comes I'll replace the pistons and rings with .005" over and probably slap a fresh set of heads ( currently in the garage waiting to be freshened up,) on it and just keep riding it.

I don't think I've "rebuilt" the motor yet because I haven't needed to pull it out of the frame yet. Just been bolting on parts as needed basically.

I'm currently at 95,000 miles.