What does the compensator do?
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which saves your drive train bearing from shock and failure !
allows a few degrees of slip when torque is slammed around - from normal riding and abuse ...
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Yep! Your question has already been answered.
To say the same thing in a different set of words, here's what I was going to say...
The compensator is there to absorb and minimize some of the shock loads within the drive train.
To say the same thing in a different set of words, here's what I was going to say...
The compensator is there to absorb and minimize some of the shock loads within the drive train.
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For most people the stock one is fine. From 07 and up is where the weak springs don't work as well with the 96 and bigger.
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So why don't all the bikes have the spring pack?? I just looked at the parts manual for my 08 FXSTC and it doesn't have all that.
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