02 or 10 RK
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2005s had some issues in heads with oil consumption. Valves guides?? Which may not be addressed when doing 103". You can Google will come up.
Probably taken care of.
Other than that nothing outstanding for that year. Hard saying what they did with tensioners.
He had to stroke it to get 103, so money wasn't a big concern. I wouldn't not be surprised gears. Which you can see simply by pull cover. Pretty easy, though I think need to pull exhaust.
Do you have any idea when work was done? Updated tensioners pads and hydraulic tensioners were not around until after 2007, later I think for pads
wonder if he did timken conversion when installing crank.
If he did, that would be hell of bike. After market 103 will be lot faster than factory
Probably taken care of.
Other than that nothing outstanding for that year. Hard saying what they did with tensioners.
He had to stroke it to get 103, so money wasn't a big concern. I wouldn't not be surprised gears. Which you can see simply by pull cover. Pretty easy, though I think need to pull exhaust.
Do you have any idea when work was done? Updated tensioners pads and hydraulic tensioners were not around until after 2007, later I think for pads
wonder if he did timken conversion when installing crank.
If he did, that would be hell of bike. After market 103 will be lot faster than factory
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2005s had some issues in heads with oil consumption. Valves guides?? Which may not be addressed when doing 103". You can Google will come up.
Probably taken care of.
Other than that nothing outstanding for that year. Hard saying what they did with tensioners.
He had to stroke it to get 103, so money wasn't a big concern. I wouldn't not be surprised gears. Which you can see simply by pull cover. Pretty easy, though I think need to pull exhaust.
Do you have any idea when work was done? Updated tensioners pads and hydraulic tensioners were not around until after 2007, later I think for pads
wonder if he did timken conversion when installing crank.
If he did, that would be hell of bike. After market 103 will be lot faster than factory
Probably taken care of.
Other than that nothing outstanding for that year. Hard saying what they did with tensioners.
He had to stroke it to get 103, so money wasn't a big concern. I wouldn't not be surprised gears. Which you can see simply by pull cover. Pretty easy, though I think need to pull exhaust.
Do you have any idea when work was done? Updated tensioners pads and hydraulic tensioners were not around until after 2007, later I think for pads
wonder if he did timken conversion when installing crank.
If he did, that would be hell of bike. After market 103 will be lot faster than factory
The kit included chain driven cams..
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Thank you for the info!!! The cam chest is a mystery till I open it. Thats my plan. All I know is it was done to bike pre-2009. I would hope in doing all that work the bearings were upgraded, seems foolish not to. I am hoping I get a good surprise when I open it. Like gears maybe!!! Will be a while, garage is too cold. FYI bike has 15k miles. I was watching the oil pressure and saw that 30psi idle and 50psi hwy and was thinking upgraded pump at a minimum. Honestly in driving it and looking at the claimed HP and TQ thats exactly how it feels. Pretty good grunt down low but sorta so so at HWY speed. Seemed like alot of dollars to spend.. but hey I didnt do it. Its a nice easy feel to it. Makes sense!!
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did Harley acknowledge tensioners in 2005? If he did SE to maintain warranty it may be stock tensioners? Not sure.
88 era gears were very popular,it is what I have.
88 era gears were very popular,it is what I have.
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I almost bet that the only thing they did to the stock oil pump was to add a spacer under the pressure relief spring or the Baisley spring. Nothing wrong with the stock pump.. My 02 RK had pressure like that with the spacer. After 80000 miles it did drop a little.. 
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I got stock oil pump for first 87k miles. Cranked and bottom end looked great. I would not worry about upgrading.
If he used all SE he may not have updated cam bearings. Harley is not good about acknowledging problems. I didn't look closely at catalogue.
After market people were changing bearings.
But it only has 15k miles,I would ride it this summer. If you don't do a lot of riding, wait some years.
It would be easy to check for gears if bored
I understand curiosity
If he used all SE he may not have updated cam bearings. Harley is not good about acknowledging problems. I didn't look closely at catalogue.
After market people were changing bearings.
But it only has 15k miles,I would ride it this summer. If you don't do a lot of riding, wait some years.
It would be easy to check for gears if bored
I understand curiosity
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My Arlen ness gauge runs around 48 psi. I got baisley spring, which is just helping TC tick.
Parts manual shows same spring in 96". Not sure what factory did to quite them.
My 95"/98 does have higher oil pressure at idle than 96". Both stock pumps.
Though when it super hot 88 would get low psi, like stopped traffic.
Parts manual shows same spring in 96". Not sure what factory did to quite them.
My 95"/98 does have higher oil pressure at idle than 96". Both stock pumps.
Though when it super hot 88 would get low psi, like stopped traffic.
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They had a camplate and pump but it still used stock tensioners.
They didn't come out with the upgraded tensioner plate in the catalog until 2010.
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My 01 with 87k has stock cam plate. When I rebuilt second time I went with oil pump. Both times replaced bearings and lifters.
88s are good bikes bored Especially with timken. I do miss having 2 tripometers.
88s are good bikes bored Especially with timken. I do miss having 2 tripometers.
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