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With that many miles the cam bearing had to been done
Some have gone Many... Many more than that on the original Bearing...Internet Gloom and Doom be damned... If I'm in there, and I think of it... it gets changed... Just because... But I do that with Shovelheads too... and they came with a better bearing than you can even buy today... IMO.
If it ain't been Modded, nor Beat to **** by a throttle jockey, or would be Racer... I ain't skeert, and I see No Reason to open mine Just because...
Some have gone Many... Many more than that on the original Bearing...Internet Gloom and Doom be damned... If I'm in there, and I think of it... it gets changed... Just because... But I do that with Shovelheads too... and they came with a better bearing than you can even buy today... IMO.
If it ain't been Modded, nor Beat to **** by a throttle jockey, or would be Racer... I ain't skeert, and I see No Reason to open mine Just because...
Yup...that's a "do it if you're already in there" kind of thing. Daddy always said: "Son, don't fix something that works".
A little while back, I was getting a new noise and had my local Indy shop open up the cam chest to see what might be going on. Turns out that in their opinion, the original (1999) cam bearing was fine but I had them replace it anyhow, just because. The noise was the bushing on the outboard end of the cam. It was loose and "wallowing out" the nose cone. (That's a technical term we use down South).