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My FXDX is over 65000 miles on it. At 7500 it was made into a high compression 95 that made over 100/100. At 22500 it became a 116 that made about 125/130. Up to about 27000 I ran the stock belt and had changed wheels from stock mags to black PCed rim /ss spoke wire wheels. Had the pulley off a few times, never had an issue. Had the bike at the strip a number of times..
Out of concern for snapping a belt, I changed over to chain at about 27000. I've had zero issues with that. 44000, I went to a 180/55-18 rear tire. One thing I did when going to chain was add an support bearing to the sprocket. No problems with it either.
I would question how you got to this place in the first place. Why was the plate installed? What other work was done to the bike leading up to the failure?
This does seem to be more of an issue with later Dynas and not the early ones. I suspect that this is because they added more offset to the pulley to clear a fatter tire..
Here is the current setup on my DX. It has an outboard bearing.
no motor work done to bike , plate was added because a friend told me this happend to him 3 times so it was put on to prevent this from happening it did anyways. This all happened after Harley added lock plate. So their goes the theory of adding a chain rather than the belt would help.
no motor work done to bike , plate was added because a friend told me this happend to him 3 times so it was put on to prevent this from happening it did anyways. This all happened after Harley added lock plate. So their goes the theory of adding a chain rather than the belt would help.
So the rear pulley and wheel were stock / untouched at the point the plate was added?
It would be great to get a straight answer from the guy that actually did the work.
OP Was " It happens " is all that was said ???
This whole thing is over the top in my mind.
Good Luck Sir
WP
yea that’s all they said was “ it happens”
Waiting to see what the bolt ends look like inside rim. Harley right now believes they didn’t use proper torque and locktite… powder coating was done fine with good mounting surfaces. So right now it’s looking like whoever installed pulley didn’t use proper torque or loc tite . Time will tell
07-09-2023, 10:25 AM
