Removing cam gears
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Stellar HDF Member
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Interesting
What a wonderful idea since mine is currently on a lift. Thanks for the suggestion, I never even thought about using the brake. The cams will be removed today, I am confident now. My lifters showed signs of skidding vice rolling see picture, so I am anticipating my cam will be toast also. My tensioner is grooved also after only 48975 miles. I will take some pictures this afternoon of my cams, before the games on TV.
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Change this around for a minute. Have you ever ran the bike real low on oil before within the 48000 miles? What kind of oil do you use? Have you used the same oil since break in? Just seems like an excessive amount of where on the lifters. I could be wrong 
But IMO seems excessive.
But IMO seems excessive.
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Change this around for a minute. Have you ever ran the bike real low on oil before within the 48000 miles? What kind of oil do you use? Have you used the same oil since break in? Just seems like an excessive amount of where on the lifters. I could be wrong But IMO seems excessive.
But IMO seems excessive.
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Never ran it low on oil, always changed oil before it's time, switched to HD Synthetic at 1000 mile change, then at 3750 miles, switched to Amsoil synthetic 20W-50, and then last summer switched to Mobil-1 synthetic (20W-50), because the lifters just made so much noise. I could not agree more with you and my only explanation is when a group of us rode to Philly to eat a cheesesteak, we rolled up I-95 in 95 degree weather, and then hit traffic and got stuck going 3', stop, go 3' and stop, for about an hour maybe more, and my engine started pinging. Mine was the only one of about 10-12 bikes pinging, but it definitely got hot. From that point on, I heard my lifters upon start up. They just kept getting progressively worse until I decided to see what was causing them to make so much noise. I was embarassed to start my motor they made so much noise. So other than that one time when it got hot, I treat her pretty good. But why only my bike when every bike in our group suffered no damage but me, if in fact that was when it happened.
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