Drive Belt - what makes teeth break???
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Definatly get the manual, it will save you a lot of trouble and pay for itself in labor cost savings.
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too loose might not be good, i have seen little rocks put holes in them, but it kind of sounds like it is dry rotted. i will replace my own, its a bit of work, but i will not the dealer to do it. if you have a motorcycle jack should be pretty simple.
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It's an 800 to a thousand dollar job if the dealer does it.
It's a full day, lot's of swearing, and, satisfaction if you do it.
It wouldn't necessarily call it a no brainer... It's just that if you have the tools, and are better than average with wrenching, you can do it. Be methodical about it.
It's a full day, lot's of swearing, and, satisfaction if you do it.
It wouldn't necessarily call it a no brainer... It's just that if you have the tools, and are better than average with wrenching, you can do it. Be methodical about it.
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Well I got the belt in and wanted to share some tips...wow, that was a big job! So the manual says to take the swing arm off -- on my 1992 I did not have to unbolt the shock and remove the swing arm, just take the two bolts out and the big $$s spacer drops out, no problem with the shocks being under tension. The manual also says to remove the exhaust, that's also a waste of time, just loosen it and you can slip a socket on the swingarm bolt. With an impact the entire swingarm fiasco takes about 3 minutes to deal with. Other advice, manual says to remove the starter, don't do that, just loosen the bolts and let them sit in the starter assembly. The only issue I had with the belt swap was finding a 1 1/2" socket!!!! That was kind of hard to find, but an impact makes quick work of the compensator and clutch bolts/nuts. I used the rag method to hold the primary while I torqued the bolts with red locktight. Not to bad, but a ridiculous amount of effort to replace a belt - I mean seriously I felt like I stripped the whole bike down just to replace the belt...but ya better than a chain slinging oil all over the place. The funny thing is that while taking all that stuff apart, I found 3 or 4 bolts in various places were missing (typical Harley). Hey at least I got an oil change on the primary out of it.
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Glad you 'got er done'. At least now you won't have to worry about it crapping out on you out in the middle of nowhere.
PS if you can how about posting a couple of pics of the bad belt teeth.
Might be useful for the next guy who's wondering if his are bad or not.
PS if you can how about posting a couple of pics of the bad belt teeth.
Might be useful for the next guy who's wondering if his are bad or not.
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