You can leave the cover off to check. With the oil cold it will be a stream.

 

I run the stock dry system in my shovel. I've heard of people having problems with leaks when they isolate their primary. I'm sticking with stock.

carl

 

I agree with you but people can do what they want with their bikes. I saw a friend of mine go through 3 primary chains in a year because of leaks in his isolated primary as well as trashing the adjuster pad.

 

One wold think after the first loss it wouldn't happen again...

 

dry or oiled, one thing we all have to do is keep an eye on the tensioner. I saw what happens to the primary when it goes completely dry and it wasn't pretty. Picture throwing a grenade in there. The chain gets dug into the Teflon tensioner and cuts a groove until it can't cut anymore then everything goes high order


carl

 

Only a nit-wit would let their oil levels of any kind go low -- much less 3 times , and someone wants to blame it on the bike -- DUHHH

 

He was a nit wit. He pawned the bike for a 1000 to pay for his drug addiction which then killed him. Otherwise he was a great guy but he had his demons.

 

Anyone who is not a mechanic, eager to become one or rich enough to throw money at one doesn't need a Shovelhead or other vintage motorcycles. The unfortunate bikes tend to commit suicide in protest when owned by idiots but that's cool because the rest of us can buy 'em cheap.

I've run isolated primaries since the early 1980s. No problems, no oil pollution, no extra hose to fiddle with. When I drain them the trash leaves with the oil.

 

Installed primo bullseye belt setup 15 plus years and only changed belt out once work good no oil leaks and went to a Rev tech 5spd lately and all fit and is reliable. Ride Safe. Wild Bill