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I do believe that article is "years old". If he has written an update lately...please point me to it so I can see if this guy has a different opinion.

I must admit though, that I am still riding one of the first TC-88's off the assembly line. Mine is a 99 with an engine build date of August 98 and it has not flown apart yet. It sounds like it will at any moment but I just keep riding. Yes...I did replace the cam bearings a long...long time ago, but the chain and tensioners have 40K on them and after a recent inspection...still looked just fine. The TC-88 is likely the most ungraded engine the MOCO has ever built and a lot of the upgrades are offered by the after market just to keep the thing running. I do have a friend that has 145,000 miles on his TC-88 dresser and it has had one rear drive belt and one set of tensioners installed over those 145k miles.