Factory reman
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Factory reman
I am gonna take my bike in and do a factory reman on the motor. Anyone ever done this? My bike has 47,000 miles on it and I just want to freshin it up a bit. Also the motor looks kinda s*itty so it will look nice and new also. I have silver and polished right now and I will be going with silver and chrome when it is done. Also it is an evo I am thinking a andrews ev 23 cam anyone have any other thoughts on a cam?
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I did a reman on my '91 FLHS at 120,000 miles. The rocker boxes had never been off, and the base gaskets did'nt start leaking until 100'000 miles, and then only slightly , but worsened up to the 120,000 mile mark.. The MOCO as I understand it will only go back stock (cams). They gave me a year of unlimited miles, which I did then recammed it. That may have been before they gave two yrs unlimmited, I don't know.
After the fact, I thought I should have used my indy for a rebuild, but wanted a really stock motor w/a warranty ( why? I don't know). I don't really regret the reman now, I have 138,000 on the bike and still love it. I also have an '09 ULTRA and love it.
The '91 is around town and fun. The '09 is for touring and around town and fun. I can't imagine needing a reman at 47,000 miles, but thats your call. At that low milage I'd think recam, chrome, and put the rest of the money in beer and motel rooms. Maybe clean up the motor some. BTW what year bike? I also had silver/polish, and went for silver/chrome w/the reman. I don't really regret the reman but IMHO I think you have another 80,000 miles of smiles before you need to. My reman cost about $3,200 I think, been a while. Keep us posted. BTW I don't know too many guys that did a reman ( most trade or rebuild) , maybe we'll get some to pipe in......
After the fact, I thought I should have used my indy for a rebuild, but wanted a really stock motor w/a warranty ( why? I don't know). I don't really regret the reman now, I have 138,000 on the bike and still love it. I also have an '09 ULTRA and love it.
The '91 is around town and fun. The '09 is for touring and around town and fun. I can't imagine needing a reman at 47,000 miles, but thats your call. At that low milage I'd think recam, chrome, and put the rest of the money in beer and motel rooms. Maybe clean up the motor some. BTW what year bike? I also had silver/polish, and went for silver/chrome w/the reman. I don't really regret the reman but IMHO I think you have another 80,000 miles of smiles before you need to. My reman cost about $3,200 I think, been a while. Keep us posted. BTW I don't know too many guys that did a reman ( most trade or rebuild) , maybe we'll get some to pipe in......
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I have a heat issue with the bike and I have had the base gasket done 2 times and head gaskets 2 times. So I just want piece of mind I guess knowing if it takes a **** its on them. Talked to an indy on a rebuild and it would be around 5k
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That's what I am thinking also! I just bought a 2009 SG last August and have around 7500 miles on the bike and have not even taken it out of the state of Ohio yet. That's only around 8 months old and 3-4 winter months of not much riding. I am sure I will be averaging around at least 10k a year and would not even think about sending the motor back after 4-5 years. It just getting broken in with those miles.
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I don't understand the heat issiue w/an evo ( I understand it w/the '09), but 5k sounds like a lot to me. How much for a reman now? I was lucky w/the base gaskets. Chrome rockers could leak more. Mine ( after reman), have not leaked, base either.
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I did a reman engine on my 97 Ultra. Cam bearing went bad inside of engine was shot. Loved the new engine much quieter ran great. Put 40,000 on the engine before I traded the bike. Never had a problem it looked and ran better than it did when it was new.
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