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Aug 23, 2015 | 08:47 AM

#11

SavageChopper

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My dad's '12 FLHX with a 110 just had a lifter failure. He's spending another $8500 on it for an S&S crank and a cam selected strictly based on lift numbers. I told him when he bought the bike to only do cams and ride it for years.......

Aug 23, 2015 | 09:30 AM

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bagman1

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Originally Posted by skipc

Just to let everyone know,my nephew has a 2013 Ultra Classic CVO--110 cu engine that recently failed at 11,000 miles due to cam bearings comming apart and destroying engine.Stil under warentee and HD didn't want to cover it because he had slip-on pipes installed.After much bickering back and forth with attorny involved they finally caved in and replaced the motor.I thought HD had upgraded the cam bearings by now,guess not.My friend also had a '07 110cu CVO fail at 13,000 miles,out of warenty,oil pump came apart on day ride.Destroyed crank,cams and lifters.Both rides were maintained well. Just wanted to pass this along. Skip

Skip, sorry to hear of your issue. But in the end can you tell us about the real costs to you with the attorney fees and aggrevation?
My point of this is so when the folks come out here and start throwing out the Magnusen Moss Act and they have to prove this and that, as the person that has the reality of the issue, is in an aggrevating position to have to deal with this stuff.

Aug 23, 2015 | 11:06 AM

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Keithhu

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Originally Posted by SavageChopper

I think he got ripped off, for about the same money he could have had an entire S&S 124" installed.

Aug 23, 2015 | 02:21 PM

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stic2it

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Originally Posted by Keithhu

I think he got ripped off, for about the same money he could have had an entire S&S 124" installed.

Exactly what I thought

Aug 23, 2015 | 04:52 PM

#15

bdtaylor1979

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I've heard of a lot of people having problems with the 110 cvo's.

Aug 23, 2015 | 05:20 PM

#16

Wildon883R

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This is BS. The V-twin motor is basically a hopped up lawn mower engine technologically. Their is nothing refined about any HD motor. Thankfully i've never had a motor issue with any HD i've owned. I can only assume this was a fluke i.e. isolated incident.

Aug 23, 2015 | 08:37 PM

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SavageChopper

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Originally Posted by Keithhu

I think he got ripped off, for about the same money he could have had an entire S&S 124" installed.

Oh, I know he's getting ripped off. He got ripped off on the original deal as well.

Aug 23, 2015 | 08:59 PM

#18

2AMGuy

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I just rolled over 21,000 miles on my '13 CVO 110.

I will say that the engine sounds much better after I changed over to Redline 20w-60w motor oil for the summer months.

On the 5,000 service I put Redline Shockproof in the transmission and IMHO the tranny sounds better and seems to also shift easier.

I still use SYN3 in the primary but I'm considering changing that over to the Primary fluid on the last service this year.