Dawn & I planned a trip to Thunder in the Valley Saturday with my bud (Scott) & his wife (Jamie) and his brotherMark-05'Wide-glide) and wife(passenger) in from Texas. Sad story is I got called in to work for high priority customers and missed it. Well they came back and her bike a 99' 883H was leaking oil badly out of the front head gasket & his 04' 1200C had a bad noise coming from the front of the primary. Sunday we took apart the primary to inspect the innards for our first time since we aren't bike mechanics and the shops are all booked up for weeks[&:]Basically we ended up concluding the chain needed tightened and it did and the noise went away so we thought cool. He test rode it and it went fine for the very short trip we took and it was parked all day Monday. Today I had off and he got off early and I called him up and we rode to the bar to have a cold 1 and get the gaskets for his wifes bike and the noise came back! We went right back to his house and the adjuster nutwas almost off the bolt and it was leaking the tranny fluid out[:'(]So he said he may not havetightened it up enough so we tightened it and the noise went away. We left again to go get gaskets and got to the end of his driveway and the noise came back. He then says when he put his rear tire on and tightened it down & adjusted sh*t& that he may have over tightened everything and f*d up a bearing but we didn't notice anything pointing to it. It sounds like a loud grinding noise coming from it at idle[>:]We did get the gaskets and did do the job in about 2 hours and her bike is running great with no leaks so my first ever top end gasket rebuild went nice and smooth. She bought the 99' 3 months ago with 3400 miles on it and she has 5000 now and the head gasket must have dry rotted from sitting. It flaked right of when we pulled it and had part missing in the corner the leak had occuredSo that tells EVERYONE MUST RIDE THERE BIKE FOR IT'S OWN GOOD!! [8D]

we did get gas all over since he didn't want to drain it correctly first & I'm still pissed at work for making me work Saturday and giving me Monday & Tuesday off