I posted awhile ago that my bike needed a new compensator and inner primary bearing replaced. I dropped it off at my indy one month ago. Still not done! They tell me they are waiting on a part from the local HD dealer to come in. Service girl tells me they said covid is slowing everything down. That sound believable? Anyone else having trouble getting parts?

 

Well ... since that's what they told you I'd say that's probably the case ... Took three weeks to get a belt for my tractor ;<(

 

I can say yeah that could be although a month seems long.

I will say poor performance on your indy. If it was my shop I wouldn't have even scheduled you until all the parts were in hand.

 

Parts are hard to come by, I have seen a lot of threads on the forum about it... That being said, why not put in a Baker Comp? I did this year after two HD Comps...

 

sounds like the norm these days, I have friends with their bikes in at the local dealer waiting 3 weeks or so for parts. I just ordered a new dryer for my rental house, the best I could find was a 10 day wait for delivery from Home Depot, Sears was a 3 week wait.

 

Parts for just about everything have been hard to come by since this damn virus hit. I had the backup camera on my brand new truck go out almost 2 months ago, still waiting for parts to show up.
A lot of manufacturers stopped producing their products a while back and retooled to make masks and other virus related equipment. Now they're playing catch up.

 

Besides the delay in shipping there is the routing.......had a package from Ca to CApe cod.........went from CA to Warwick RI then to NEW JERSEY, then to CT then to Nashua NH then to Cape Cod..........

Wish I could get those miles!!!

 

I re-built the entire engine on my '48 Ford 8N tractor in less time than that. Lots of engine parts.
To be fair, it was right before this Covid thing went full bore idiot.
I have since ordered other unrelated stuff that arrived in normal time.
Best of luck!

 

Thats nothing. My brother-in- law's Road King has been at the dealer since early August waiting for a similar repair for a transmission issue. They said due to COVID, the parts required are on back order and slow to ship. They just advised him that the parts will be arriving later this week.

 

Torque converter went out in my wife's Explorer. Been sitting in the shop for 3 weeks waiting on parts. So yeah, right now that's normal.