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Has anyone eliminated the Cush drive with a chain drive kit on a 2008 Roadglide? This one has a 18 inch wheel and the compensator bowl was damaged due to it coming loose. Part is obsolete. Setting the bike up for stunt riding. Any help would be appreciated.
That's like asking if someone has changed Harley's typical Belt Pulley/Sprocket to chain drive ... of course they have
The 2008 uses the Bolt-on compensator bowl. The wheel is no different than Non-Cush Drive wheels.
So apparently someone moved that compensator bowl over to a 18" wheel maybe without cleaning threads, using loctite (or new bolts) and torquing properly? Hard to imagine those bolts coming loose. That's one of the benefits of that Cush Drive
Btw, you can still get those compensator bowls on ebay. I even have several.
The first few threads are bad in every hole. The holes in the bowl are egg shaped. When I removed rear wheel I noticed that the bolts were not Harley bolts. Thats when I found damage. The prior owner repaired by getting hardware store bolts and lots of red loctite.
My local dealer said it is obsolete and there are none in the country. There is a superseding number but he couldnt find any information on it other than the price is 275. Could not find that part either
It's easy, just create an account, then you create a purchase item with the web link. They'll get back to you with their fee and shipping from the seller to the buyer. Then after they receive it, there's of course another shipping charge to the US. In my case the seller in Wales shipped to the buyer in London. The buyer shipped to me, I was able to select how I wanted it shipped, then pay that amount. https://www.shippn.com/en/home
Below was my initial charges, then there were the shipping costs to the USA. They base their fee on the item price.
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