Haven't had a chance to dig in yet. Not sure when I'll have time. Maybe tomorrow.

I'm starting to think about all the "may as well" and "as long as I'm in there" stuff. I do think I could go with a slightly smaller drive pulley in the front.

 

Took a moment to give it a good look.

The trans fluid looks to be coming out from behind the inner primary.



My guess is the trans quad seal is shot, but no way to tell from here.

Unless someone comes along with a better idea, seems to me the next course of action is to pull the inner primary and have a look.

 

I was gonna suggest that seal was probably the culprit. Could also have had the nut come loose.

 

While I'm there Oh Boy here we go.

Fair chance the nut may have backed off but ahh get her apart and let us know.

Glad she got ya home tho.

WP

 

Harder acceleration?

 

With the motor work I did, I've got enough ponies to pull comfortably at higher speeds.

But with the factory gearing, I'm frequently running at 3800 to 4k RPM going down the highway. I'd like to knock that down a bit.

 

Then I think you want a larger front pulley, not smaller.

 

There's been a thread or 2 on here about changing the front one and best I can recall, a 33T will only drop it about 100 - 150 rpms. Someone did a 34T on an FXR without a longer belt but I don't know about that on the Touring swing arm.

If you're sure that's transmission fluid dripping off the inner, only thing it can be is the wedding band seal, not quad or main. Doesn't matter, inner is coming off regardless. Probably find the inner primary bearing race walked and cut into it to be leaking that bad.

 

Yeah, bigger front pulley.

The race walking thing makes sense. I've heard of that, but never dealt with it.

I spent Saturday night at a friend's house in Baton Rouge. He reports that his garage floor is clean. Sunday night was at a motel in Arkansas. Tons of rain Monday morning, so I'm not sure I would have noticed if it was leaking then. Right now, my guess is this happened on Monday during the ride back home.

Doesn't make much difference, really.

I should have a few hours tomorrow where I can get the inner removed. That should answer most of the questions.

 

I put a 34 on front and was able to use original belt , 95 FLHTC. It is a tight fit but once it's on there is adjustment.