Originally Posted by flpete

I know this may of been asked many times before, and i have searched this forum for solutions...BUT !!! Yea I know. I have a 2006 softail deluxe and love the bike. it now has 6100 miles on it. Had a buds softail trash the motor at 9000 miles to to cam chain followers and I am getting nervous about the whole B/S manner in which Harley is disrespecting harly riders in general.
I went to my local dealer and was quoted a price of nearly 1500.00 to do the fix with the new cam plate and bearings setup with new hydloc tenioner set up complete with new oil pump. That is a lot of coin for a man on a fixed income. I know some swear by going the gear route setup from S&S but then there is the crank shift thing.
I can only afford to do this once and want to do it right the first time. To me my deluxe is a piece of art and deserves the very best and I want to take care of it and pass it down to one of my sons.. I have cancer, money is tight....and I want to get this done. My dealer is like just trade the bike but low ***** me on my trade in which is like brand new with new tires and new battery and battey tender.
I live in central florida....can anyone here point me in the right direction and or an indy shop to do the work. A good bud told me to find a good shop and just have the motor rebuilt and adress all of the weak points of the twin cam motor...this kind of bites since the bike only has 6100 miles on it......Please feel free to point me in the right direction.....
many thanks in advance
kindly
ron

Originally Posted by jreichart

Have em checked. Might be a non-issue for many thousand more miles. I have 50,000 on my 05, and they are still well within factory wear limits. They are starting to pit though, so I do plan on replacing them with new tensioner shoes this winter. I've read a lot about the hydraulic plate and don't feel it's worth the coin. Did the dealer mention you'd need to also replace the cams in order to get a roller chain on the inner side? Otherwise the hydraulic kit reuses the inner link chain, which will continue to eat away the inner tensioner shoe.

Bottom line, check them. The percentage of bad chains is relatively low. For every guy that has had major issues, there are thousands more with many thousand miles on their bike who don't even know what a cam chain tensioner is.

Originally Posted by klf33

60 K miles is way too high by the way, Mine were almost a disaster at less than 40K miles.. it is the luck of the draw.
and 1500$ including parts and labour is sadly around what I paid, it is your chance to get new cams though.

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