what year did the weak cranks start...I have an 05

 

The best cranks, ( hot forged with the Timken Lefty Bearing, ) 99 - 02

Cold forged cranks but they took the Lefty Bearing out, ( still decent but check your run out,) 03 - 06

Press fit cast crank, ( horrible,) 07 to present. Would never install gear drive here regardless of run out

 

One more thing to count toward the cost is the Harley Kit comes with an Upgrade Oil pump.
With any work done, the pump is a must.
Why would you go in the cam area and not upgrade the oil pump?

 

Hmmm watching the thread here as I have a 2006 Ultra and thinking of gear drive. How do you check for run out of your crank?

 

I have two Harleys in the garage; both with built motors. Run gear drives on the '05; crank runout was .0025", lash checked out with standard inner/outer gears and the motor makes less noise than the old chain drives.

I passed on gears for the '02 and went with the conversion to the '07 OEM hydraulic tensioner/roller chain setup. So much easier to work with, no cam bearings or gears to press on, no lash to check, no OS or US gears to buy and the hydraulic system came with a new and upgraded oil pump. The oil pump alone was worth the upgrade.

The oil pump has been upgraded again for even more flow and scavenging. Either the SE Hybrid conversion and billet cam plate that allows the use of the early cams or converting to the complete OEM system with the standard cam plate will get you the upgraded oil pump and hydraulic tensioner.

You can go to the Andrews website and get the parts list; all H-D OEM parts. The last one I set up ran $370 from Zanotti's but the PNs and the price have changed since then. I woudln't run gears again unless I was building a drag bike. No extra power from gear drives.

 

I have a set of 26G's with the gears in a cam plate I'll sell you for $200. They have 5k miles on them and are clean

 

my friend is going toput gear drive andrews 26 in his bike....
is there any sign of wear on yours?
why did you take them out?
you can contact me at pzn816@gmail.com

 

I had S&S fear driven cams on my '00 FXST and I have a set (510G) on my '09 FLHX. Love them.