M8 Failure count?
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From: WORCESTER,MA
Hey ocezam, I don't understand why a guy with a 2017 CVO, with a 114" motor, would go to the expense of adding 3", to get to 117" ? If I had 3 more inches, I'd have another foot ! Regards, BJ
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Road Master
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Yeah, OK. Brilliant remark. If your still stuck in high school humor, you might want to reconsider your initials. Just sayin'....
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A couple questions:
I keep hearing that this problem is more of the early builds. What exactly, or better yet, what determines whats an early build? And how do we determine if ours falls under that heading?
I can understand a part being outsourced and slipping by CQ and getting installed with debris. But how in the world are there more than a few slipping by? Do the assemblers at HD not see a bunch of metal chips in the parts bins and wonder if they should just maybe look into that?
Are CVO motors built on the same line as the standard motors? I just assumed they were hand built.
Theses replacement motors..... whats keeping another problem motor from going in with same issue?
I keep hearing that this problem is more of the early builds. What exactly, or better yet, what determines whats an early build? And how do we determine if ours falls under that heading?
I can understand a part being outsourced and slipping by CQ and getting installed with debris. But how in the world are there more than a few slipping by? Do the assemblers at HD not see a bunch of metal chips in the parts bins and wonder if they should just maybe look into that?
Are CVO motors built on the same line as the standard motors? I just assumed they were hand built.
Theses replacement motors..... whats keeping another problem motor from going in with same issue?
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Awwww ........ He's just trying to up his post count. What's he at ? 40 something since 2011
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Road Master
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I can understand a part being outsourced and slipping by CQ and getting installed with debris. But how in the world are there more than a few slipping by? Do the assemblers at HD not see a bunch of metal chips in the parts bins and wonder if they should just maybe look into that?
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I'm not sure on this one, maybe someone who's tour the factory can comment definitively, but I highly doubt id they are hand built. Way too much expense and why would they? It's really only a matter of a longer stroke crankshaft. The rest is paint, a few more speakers, etc. If they can build a Roda King and a Limited on the same line, and they do, why would you need to put CVO's on a separate line?
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Sticker on the left side down tube has the build date on it. Month/Year. Figuring the '17 MY bikes started coming down the line by mid June of '16 in order to have enough inventory to ship at least one of each model with the new M8 to all stocking dealers. Thus, if your sticker has a build date of Sept, '16, it's not exactly first run.
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Mine shows build date of 8/16. I'm guessing that would be considered an early build? Thinking the motors have been built and shelved till mated to the bike.
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Hard to answer
one would need to know the build date of the engines with issues to get an accurate idea of how far out from the initial run yours was built.
