2010 Ultra, Stage 1 only mod. 20,000 miles stock compensator ate itself. Was replaced under warranty and upgraded to SE Comp for $100. 25,000 miles bolt backed out, was tightened up. 28,000 miles on the way home from Sturgis Sunday night, 43 minutes from my house at 3am the SE Compensator bolt backed out while riding down the highway with the cruise set at 85mph. Made a god awful noise, shut it down and had to wait 4 hours for the HOG Roadside program to find a roll back and come get me. In the shop once again......They said they had to order a new bolt, backing plate, and something else for it. Parts due Friday AM.....

ANY CURE FOR THIS?????? Its getting real old real fast!

 

They might have held the comp wrong when the bolt was torqued.
The SE comp must be (itself) held while the bolt is torqued , the stocker can be held by locking the sprocket teeth while torqing the bolt.
The SE bolt (irrc) must be torqued , then loosened then torqued again for a final time.
Of course the bolt gets locktited also as it's required.
I seem to remember the SE bolt was fairly large and the torque spec pretty heavy , so I didn't give it any thought that it would ever back out if properly installed.
Just what I'd remembered when doing mine.
Mick

 

Hate to hear that ****!!! Just biding my time

 

I don't think the locktight is working on this bolt. I'm going to drill a hole through it and saftety wire it. Also, theres a plastic thrust washer on the jun 2011 and laster comp kit which has spiral grooves in it....but it's made of plastic...dont think that is good for holding a tourqe either. They fix one problem and apparently created another.

 

I hate to hear this because I just upgraded to the SE comp. You could always just do away with the comp completely and just run a sprocket. Being a 2010 it has the IDS to take out drive train shock. Not to mention they got rid of the chain drive a long time ago to help smooth it out. That would be one way of ridding your compensator woes as extreme as it may be.

 

How long did the Mechanic let the Loctite cure? On mine we let it set over night.
No problem yet. Knock on Wood.

 

I'm at 2½ years and 23k miles on mine with no problems, yet--and I bought one of the first ones. I've heard about the fretting, but very few comp bolts coming loose, which I think is more of an installer error than a hardware weakness. Comp bolts have been coming loose for years, SE comp or otherwise. When I hit about 60k I'll likely take the entire primary apart for an inspection, probably changing some parts while in there.

 

They never torqued the bolt correctly. Mine has been working fine for 8000 miles.

 

Let me ask this question, has anyone have a after market compensator to take care of all this problem, if not someone need's too, there alot of unhappy campers out there that would love to have a upgrade, like I said just asking.

 

I would never trust a compensator install to a dealer. So the "cure" is to do the work yourself, yes, even if it is under warranty. Do you want it right or not?