HARLEY

I've been Riding scoots for a spell of time. I purchased a 2006 Road King for the comfort and reliability. I have owned many of scoots before and all being Harley Davidson.

I am going to put in my $.02 on something that has been aggravating the hell out of me. My 06 has 20,000 miles on her. So far I have replaced so many parts (Not CHROME) but mechanical. My first item that I had to change was the comp sprocket. Reason why, someone at the factory didn't torque it down and she backed out and wore the hell out of the it. Causing the chain to eat a bit of the case and tear the ass out of my stator.

The second item started to whine around 2000 miles. It was the cam chain shoes. Didn't see that coming. I replaced them with factory shoes and got another 4000 miles out of them. Still replacing them as soon as they cry out of the nose cone.

Then there is the problem with the rear swing arm. Had to get a stabilizer to correct the problem of rear steer.

There was also this little problem with the valves. At about 10,000 miles I started to get a little tap sound out of the boxes. I opened her up top notice that the valve guides were worn and the seals. So I R/R those bastards.

After that little procedure I have a little leak blowing on the rear belt. Well I'll be damned, It seems that the Tranny seal wore out cause of the main shaft on the tranny not being true. So I tore down the Tranny replaced main shaft and counter shaft. R/R seal and replace clutch.

I ran it for a bout 5000 miles like that and now I'm back doing cam chain tensioners.

I have contacted HD about all these items and how I feel about this money pit of a scooter and there reply was "WELL THEY DO THAT YA KNOW". I wrench my own scoots and should of known better than to even bother to get a normal reply from a company that could give two shits as long as ya keep buying there T SHIRTS and flying there motto. As for me, I'm going back to the old way of thinking. I bought a HD STICKER put it on the truck window and it is upside down from now on. Just like the older days in time. FLIP THE PATCH. They don't care about the Bikers who kept them alive during the shovelhead era.

DAMN HD AND WILLIE G .

Crazy Dave.