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Aug 25, 2005 | 12:59 AM

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Taildraggerdave

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RE: Ordered HD Service Manual

You can get yourself a nice lift or bike jack now, to go with your new service manual. I work on heavy equipment and the service manual is one of the most important tools you can get.....

Aug 26, 2005 | 01:01 AM

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Hog_fever

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I will NEVER let anyone touch my bike. Instead of letting the dealer do my 1000 mile checkup, I did it myself. With the money I saved, I purchased a service manual, two torqe wrenches and a motorcycle lift and had change left over. I will however let HD honor their waranty if any internal engine malfunctions occure. The manual will tell you everything you need to know and you can be assured it was done right and with care when you do it yourself.

Aug 26, 2005 | 02:47 AM

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Taildraggerdave

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Amen

Aug 26, 2005 | 06:18 AM

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I just purchased a service manual as well as elecrical manual. A bit spendy, but I am looking forwad to learnign and having fun!

Aug 26, 2005 | 11:56 AM

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ORIGINAL: 12Stones
Great commercial, Babs. I gotta wonder sometimes just how many don't get done right cause the people will never know?

A lot..

Consider it might take 2 hours to do it right, verses 45 minutes to cut corners, and they know where they think they can cut them.. Especially for stuff like just regular 5000 miles.
The thing that keeps the bike running is the fluid change.. whether it was fully drained or not and whether the cables were lubed or not or clutch adjusted, etc. That's all a warranty or paid service item later, right?

So in cutting a corner here or there, that amounts to quite a few more service hours they can charge per man-hour when there are paying customer bikes stacked up waiting for chrome goodies, engine kits, tires, or the dredded dripping evo that needs troubleshot.

Probably a good thing I'm not a dealership owner (well.. not such a good thing)
I'd be raking it in.

Now, if there's nothing out there to work on, or they didn't know we'd spend the moolah on these cash cows to keep 'em running, it's a different environment entirely, I'd say.

Aug 26, 2005 | 01:19 PM

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Thanks for sowing the seeds of doubt, Babs.

Aug 26, 2005 | 01:57 PM

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You're bound to get a better job by doing it yourself.

Aug 26, 2005 | 02:10 PM

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Thanks for sowing the seeds of doubt, Babs.

hehe! Well, this may be the case with less reputable service depts out there.. But, in hopes there are good ones out there, I hope it's the exception to the rule and not the norm. I'm sure some service depts are a lot better than others.