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Old Jul 28, 2008 | 11:37 PM
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ok im leaving for sturgis sunday.&nbsp\\; i was going over my bike today and found that my shift linkage has broken.&nbsp\\; I have 17000 miles on my 06 street glide.&nbsp\\; im curious to know how many have had this part wear out or break.
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 01:46 AM
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Ive had the OEM linkage strip out before. Now its one of the first things I replace.
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 01:49 AM
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hmmmm, guess I better check mine.
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 02:05 AM
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Replace it with a heim joint linkage and be done with it.
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 02:25 AM
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Been there done that.
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 04:08 AM
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My linkage broke at 29,000 miles.&nbsp\\; Replaced it with one of the HD linkages with heim joints.&nbsp\\; Had never paid much attention to the shift linkage before it broke and was pretty disappointed to find that HD installed such a cheap stock linkage on any bike.&nbsp\\; The stock linkage looks to me to be doomed to failure within the first 30k miles
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 05:55 AM
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Something like this.
https://www.hdforums.com/m_3187808/tm.htm
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ORIGINAL: RANDIT

ok im leaving for sturgis sunday. \\\\\\; i was going over my bike today and found that my shift linkage has broken. \\\\\\; I have 17000 miles on my 06 street glide. \\\\\\; im curious to know how many have had this part wear out or break.
Mine broke around the same mileage as yours did.
 
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I replaced mine with a Kury one.
 
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Old Jul 29, 2008 | 07:41 AM
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Mine broke once and some fellow bikers had a spare and fixed it for me.
Now I carry a spare in case someone else has the same problem.
 
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