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Dennis_c
| Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 04:50 pm: |
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How many HARD miles is your primary chain good for. |
Froggy
| Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 05:06 pm: |
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I've never heard of anyone ever needing to replace a primary chain on a XB. |
Oldwesterncowboy
| Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 06:33 pm: |
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how often does it need adjusted |
Jphish
| Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 06:53 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 07:54 pm: |
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I adjusted it just barely at 10,000 miles. |
Ulynut
| Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 08:15 pm: |
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Send Tramp a pm. He has 250,000 miles on a Sportster motor. |
Pso
| Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 10:00 am: |
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1x in 26K miles. |
Paralegalpete
| Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 12:19 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 04:29 pm: |
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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
| Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 06:42 am: |
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20K on mine with no problems, minor adjustments at the service intervals. Wayne |
Oldwesterncowboy
| Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 07:06 am: |
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Has anyone put an open primary on a xb? Do they even make one? |
Oldwesterncowboy
| Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 07:13 am: |
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I have seen this http://goo.gl/HqvI |
Ratbuell
| Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 09:38 am: |
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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
| Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 09:53 am: |
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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. |
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