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Old Jun 22, 2024 | 10:11 AM
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Am near 51k miles on the Limited, have not had a reason to look at them and I also still have the original lifters.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2025 | 10:19 AM
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Is your bike carbed or injected. If carb, you might consider a cam and lifter upgrade as well. I make the destination between carb and injection because it's not too crazy to just reject the carb for a bolt in cam job.
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Old Oct 27, 2025 | 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by marcodarq
Is your bike carbed or injected. If carb, you might consider a cam and lifter upgrade as well. I make the destination between carb and injection because it's not too crazy to just reject the carb for a bolt in cam job.
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Carbed? This is an M8 forum, FYI.
 
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Old Nov 23, 2025 | 06:30 PM
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47 K on my 22 road glide limited. Honestly I have not looked since I added a S&S 475 cam around 5 or 10 K miles.I should really remember whenI did that lol
 
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Old Jan 20, 2026 | 01:24 PM
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10 K on my 24 Heritage I keep thinking I need to put some better lifters and P rods in it. It’s just a stage 1 but I have some good long trips this summer. I haven’t heard of the lifters failing or the hardening flaking off but I don’t trust that they won’t. Any opinions out there.
 
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Old Jan 20, 2026 | 04:12 PM
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10 K on my 24 Heritage I keep thinking I need to put some better lifters and P rods in it. It’s just a stage 1 but I have some good long trips this summer. I haven’t heard of the lifters failing or the hardening flaking off but I don’t trust that they won’t. Any opinions out there.
I think it’s all just the luck of the draw on these. My stock 2024 RGS 114 had 75000 trouble free miles on it which ran and sounded like new when I traded it in for a new 24 RG 117 and I added an HD Stage 1. At almost 20000 miles a lifter failed with catastrophic engine damage and was replaced. As far as I’m aware they both use the same lifters. Go figure eh?
 
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Old Jan 21, 2026 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by mjwebb
I think it’s all just the luck of the draw on these. My stock 2024 RGS 114 had 75000 trouble free miles on it which ran and sounded like new when I traded it in for a new 24 RG 117 and I added an HD Stage 1. At almost 20000 miles a lifter failed with catastrophic engine damage and was replaced. As far as I’m aware they both use the same lifters. Go figure eh?
correction: meant My stock 2020 RGS 114
 
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Old Jan 21, 2026 | 09:23 PM
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Howdy,
2017 107 Ultra. it only had 989 (nine hundred eighty nine) miles when I bought it in 2022. It had sat for 5 years. Anyways, I replaced my stock cam chest tensioner at 35K when I did a cam upgrade. Replaced the primary tensioner
( Hayden M6) at 50K. No issues with either so far, but not enough miles to start to be worried yet.
 
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