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Thanks man! Ya I'm excited for paint to be done. If it's not obvious from my forum name, I like choppers and chopper styling. I wasn't a huge fan of the minimal fender that came stock. It just didn't fit the bike, IMHO. The wrap fender fits the theme much better, IMHO.
Yeppers! Should damn near give the illusion of no fender at all!? Very cool.
Well, several things come to mind that I want to do that are in the chopper realm, but I've been searching for weeeeeeks trying to find an open primary that will work. Everything that is 3 inch and up seems to stop at 2006 for whatever reason. There are a few 2 inch belt drives out, but if you're gonna go open primary, gotta do the 3" otherwise it's just not worth it, IMHO. I know alot of people aren't fans of open primarys and are scared of them or whatever, but I didn't buy my Breakout to carve corners or for it's handling characteristics...that's what a crotch rocket is for, IMHO.
Well, I've been up and running now for a week+ on a belt drive primary. I ended up going with a Rivera Primo 4 Extreme. I'd originally chose a BDL EVO-8SR-2 unit, but after over a month of waiting for status from BDL and no return calls or emails on a $1900 unit I pulled the plug and wrote them off. R-P not only answered my calls, they returned them! Wow what a concept! Two small problems with the install... I didn't reverse the Stator seal and it leaked. And when I went to pull the back panel there was no good way to get leverage because the panel's tranny shaft race held it on. I got the back panel off by tapping holes (3/8") on either side of the shaft and using a gear puller. What I found when I removed the rotor to reverse the seal was a piece of the seal riding against the spacer -nice assembly job HD! One thing to remember- the spacer in back of the rotor slides right out on the crankshaft, allowing you to get a good sized puller in there to yank out the seal. I didn't know that until after I'd busted a nut pulling the seal out. (Grrrrr). I made my own install tool, put everything back together, and... It still drips oil. Now it's a true Harley! So how does the belt drive feel? Well, I can feel every piston fire. There's no compensator inline now, so nothing to smooth out the engine. It was quite a shock to ride it the first time, but I'm used to it now. Maybe when I get lazy and want a smoother ride again I'll go back the the chain and compensator, but for now I'm staying with the belt. BDL uses a 2" belt, and Primo uses a 3". Also, the primary ratio for the chain is 1.35:1, BDL changes that to 1.32:1, and the Primo unit changes it to 1.55:1. For me, the stock primary left me with too much between gears, and 30mph was a bitch. With the Primo I'm going through the gears faster but spinning higher at speed so I'm not lugging. I think I'm turning about 3k at 70. I have the analog tach/digital speedo, and due to the changes in ratios the ECM is confused what gear I'm in. That should get corrected at the next service by the DT-2.
Furry, do you still have your BO? If so, any regrets with the RP after 5 years of use?
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Feb 13, 2015, 01:41 PM
