| Author | Message | ||
     Dennis_c |
How many HARD miles is your primary chain good for. | ||
| Froggy |
I've never heard of anyone ever needing to replace a primary chain on a XB. | ||
| Oldwesterncowboy |
how often does it need adjusted | ||
| Jphish |
After a 13k mi trip, it was only out of spec by a skoch'. I just check it along with clutch adjustment @ each oil change (5K) | ||
| Ourdee |
I adjusted it just barely at 10,000 miles. | ||
| Ulynut |
Send Tramp a pm. He has 250,000 miles on a Sportster motor. | ||
| Pso |
1x in 26K miles. | ||
| Paralegalpete |
Funny coincidence, I just read a thread on a Sportster forum where a guy broke his primary chain, locked up the rear wheel, skidded for 400 feet before going down. He and his passenger are OK save for a little road rash | ||
| Dennis_c |
I had to replace my primary chain on my old S3T at about 30,000 it was realy stretched. I had to tighten my uly about 6 or 7 times in 33,000 miles. To many wheeles? | ||
| Wbrisett |
20K on mine with no problems, minor adjustments at the service intervals. Wayne | ||
| Oldwesterncowboy |
Has anyone put an open primary on a xb? Do they even make one? | ||
| Oldwesterncowboy |
I have seen this http://goo.gl/HqvI | ||
| Ratbuell |
Well...I guess you *could* do an open primary.....personally though I don't see the benefits. I usually adjust mine when I either hear the rattle at idle, or my shifting gets wonky. I do check it at every service, but it's rare that it needs more than a nudge on the adjuster screw. The Uly was running fine but had a little raprap at idle, so I adjusted it before the Homecoming trip - at 13k miles. | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
That belted primary would mean a dry clutch and that sounds like a bunch of maintenance to me and short life. I sure would like a torsion bar automatic cam chain tensioner though. That would be the bee's knees. |
