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Rex
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 07:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I am just wondering, more than any other part, would be the isolators. Any idea if this is something that might be hard to get in the future, or are these common?

Wonder how many dealers will still have their frame spreaders for the tubers, so they can change the isolators? REX
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Jramsey
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 08:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

5/16" Stover nut + a short length of ready rod = frame spreader.
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Xl1200r
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 08:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Frame spreader? What did I get into?!?!
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Scott_in_nh
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 08:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

frame spreader = isolator compressor

actually visually spreading your frame = you have probably f'd it up

I read all of the horror stories here and was as concerned as you.

Took my time, used $8 worth of allthread and steel pipe, and it was not difficult at all.

Polishing my swingarm by hand while I had it out was hard, changing the isolators? Not so much!
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Xl1200r
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 08:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Good deal - I was kind of wondering how you replace those guys....
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Jramsey
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 09:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>frame spreader=isolator compressor.

Iso's cannot be compressed, the frame must be spread apart .080"-.125" + depending on the locating pin length on models without removable side plates.
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Ebutch
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 10:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Looks good.

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46champ
Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 - 11:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

You can still buy them from MAC tools.
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Scott_in_nh
Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 08:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Iso's cannot be compressed

I disagree, I could easily see that the iso was compressing.
Sorry I don't have pictures.

either way, it is not a difficult job...
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Buellistic
Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 10:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

YOU DO NOT WANT TO SPREAD THE FRAME ANY MORE THAN YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TOO !!!

COMPRESS THE "LEFT" ISOLATOR AS MUCH AS YOU CAN BEFORE TRYING TO REMOVE THE "RIGHT" ISOLATOR(improvise a simple tool) !!!

Early on the H-D technicians and the unknowing were spreading the FRAME so much that BMC was supplying ISOLATOR "SHIMS" ...
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The4ork
Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 12:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

what is an isolator?
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Sportyeric
Posted on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 01:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The rubber mounts that separate the engine from the frame. One at the front, two at the back.
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