Thought I would post here, not sure where the most appropriate place is. I had never checked the forums before 2-3 weeks ago. But apparently I have been having some *serious* transmission to primary migration. I last had my bike (17 CVO Limited) serviced at my dealer, they did the 5k at around 4500 miles. Read some bad stories here and figured I should check my own. I have 9k on it now. Guess what.. the stick is dry. Doesn't even register. I imagine my primary is overfull, which would explain some of the shifting issues I've had. Taking the bike in for the 10k service on Monday so they can figure it out. Had a good talk with the Svc Mgr today, he thinks no damage was done, says the trans can live with just a little bit of oil, no problem. So hopefully clearing out the primary and refilling the trans next week will make a good change in the bike. Thoughts/comments welcome.

Thanks

 

about 10,000 comments and a few hundred pages and multiple threads worth..sorry, but that's the truth so get in the back of the line!

 

 

Yup, I have been reading furiously for a few hours now..

 

Service Mgr was very up front and said some of the M8's do leak from the trans to the primary, and H-D has a fix for it, it's a cap on the end of a shaft or something that prevents gear oil spray from going to the primary. But from what I've read on here it doesn't work anyway, so they will do the service and just log how much fluid comes out of where. He did say they have to request it from HQ, it's not an orderable part.

 

 

 

no, just thought I'd make the new guy aware of the plethora of available information he seeks answers too..but can't really advise against working with dealership and having it documented, being new and under warranty..best place to start regardless of if they are going to be able to resolve it or not in the short term imo..we know the MOCO is aware, and at some point they will have a breakthrough I suspect..definitely should head your way if they can't

 

I wouldn't be calling it a leak.