A couple of tranny questions
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Tourer
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From: Reidsville, NC
No offense taken. I usually don't post something without checking it first. Got to wonder if the mech who did your bike here assumed it only took a pint? When I bought my bike new another customer warned me about some of the mechanics. He called them "Chip" and "Nick". One melted my gas tank door cover with a hot drill right in front of me and tried to denied it. After that I never trusted any of them. I would always check any of the mechanics work. Once the warranty was over so were they.
It just sucks that you have to suffer because of someone's incompetence. There seems to be a lot of that ,at least around here. Dealerships don't want to pay anyone with experience. One dealership here fired everyone and hired kids.
I would love to check out Aruba. Don't see why some people got to insult you.
It just sucks that you have to suffer because of someone's incompetence. There seems to be a lot of that ,at least around here. Dealerships don't want to pay anyone with experience. One dealership here fired everyone and hired kids.
I would love to check out Aruba. Don't see why some people got to insult you.
Road Master
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I hear you. I think sometimes we can say things only to wonder why did I say that!!! Although I can be an a$$hole at times
Everyone on here ( At least the EVO page) is pretty cool. Some people on the General are kind of a$$holes at times. 
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From: Aruba
'06, you forgot to use the sarcastic font. 
Yea, I was in central Fla for three years before I moved down here. Still working as hard as I ever have but I'm playing just as hard also. Was in Cleveland before that since birth back in the early 1800's.
Yea, mechanics **** me off but no worse than doctors or attorneys or a lot of other professions. There's a lot of good ones out there. Problem is finding them and then making sure they aren't working for you on one of their bad days.
Just for the record, I'm not talking about SouthEast Harley. The few times I've been there, I've always been satisfied. This is the first, and last, time I was at the one farther south on the opposite side of Cleveland. At first I thought they shorted fluid in my primary and my tranny but now I'm convinced they just shorted the tranny. Makes sense if they thought the bike was older and only put 16+ oz in it. The tranny is off the bike and none of the seals or gaskets are leaking at all and when I dumped the oil into a measured container, I got exactly 18oz. Even if they thought it took 16, I wonder what the dipstick is for that they had out of the bike to be able to put the fluid back in through the same hole? I'm convinced the primary fluid that was missing was getting sucked into the engine through the screw hole for the stator bracket. Especially since it kept loosing fluid (with no external leaks). The tranny on the other hand was still full when I drained it after replacing everything and putting about 2K miles on it (with the bearing screaming at me).
Only reason I took the bike in was to get 5K service done on a new to me bike that I had never seen before just to make sure I could make the trip to the freight yard in Miami. Would have been better off riding the bike as it was.
Now that we've totally hijacked this thread; what were we talking about? Oh yea, Bama, how's the tranny doing now?
Yea, I was in central Fla for three years before I moved down here. Still working as hard as I ever have but I'm playing just as hard also. Was in Cleveland before that since birth back in the early 1800's.Yea, mechanics **** me off but no worse than doctors or attorneys or a lot of other professions. There's a lot of good ones out there. Problem is finding them and then making sure they aren't working for you on one of their bad days.
Just for the record, I'm not talking about SouthEast Harley. The few times I've been there, I've always been satisfied. This is the first, and last, time I was at the one farther south on the opposite side of Cleveland. At first I thought they shorted fluid in my primary and my tranny but now I'm convinced they just shorted the tranny. Makes sense if they thought the bike was older and only put 16+ oz in it. The tranny is off the bike and none of the seals or gaskets are leaking at all and when I dumped the oil into a measured container, I got exactly 18oz. Even if they thought it took 16, I wonder what the dipstick is for that they had out of the bike to be able to put the fluid back in through the same hole? I'm convinced the primary fluid that was missing was getting sucked into the engine through the screw hole for the stator bracket. Especially since it kept loosing fluid (with no external leaks). The tranny on the other hand was still full when I drained it after replacing everything and putting about 2K miles on it (with the bearing screaming at me).
Only reason I took the bike in was to get 5K service done on a new to me bike that I had never seen before just to make sure I could make the trip to the freight yard in Miami. Would have been better off riding the bike as it was.
Now that we've totally hijacked this thread; what were we talking about? Oh yea, Bama, how's the tranny doing now?
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Tourer
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Still not enough clutch. Giving up. Out of money till kids go back to school. Probably get back on it in October or so. If some dumbass will buy it for the payoff I'll sell it. But other than me no one around here is gonna give 7K for a broke down bike.
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5 speeds can take hundreds of thousands of miles of normal use, which of course includes downshifting while slowing down.
Last edited by Dan89FLSTC; Jun 9, 2011 at 07:36 PM.
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Capacity for 1989 5 speed=1 Pint.
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