Cam chain shoes
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10-29-2014 | 04:27 PM
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Cam chain shoes
http://www.harleydavidsontensioner.com/replaceshoe.html
For '06 RK,is this the one I need,and is the one most folks suggest?
For '06 RK,is this the one I need,and is the one most folks suggest?
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10-29-2014 | 06:20 PM
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Talked to them on the phone.I just wanted to be absolutely certain.BTW,they said if you can get them on ebay in the 50$ range,get them because that's what they sell them to distributers for.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tensioner-Re...ed43c0&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tensioner-Re...ed43c0&vxp=mtr
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10-29-2014 | 06:23 PM
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10-29-2014 | 06:35 PM
yup thats them
i just spent the extra money and bought the SE hyd tensioners kit , comes with a bigger oil pump , new cam plate , chain ,sprockets , and got away from the spring type. oil pressure is way diff. for the better at idle and running ,( plus the cam plate is a pretty orange)
while your in there change out the inner cam brgs w/ the updated torrington one , lots better than the stock style.
i just spent the extra money and bought the SE hyd tensioners kit , comes with a bigger oil pump , new cam plate , chain ,sprockets , and got away from the spring type. oil pressure is way diff. for the better at idle and running ,( plus the cam plate is a pretty orange)
while your in there change out the inner cam brgs w/ the updated torrington one , lots better than the stock style.
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10-30-2014 | 08:21 PM
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Talked to them on the phone.I just wanted to be absolutely certain.BTW,they said if you can get them on ebay in the 50$ range,get them because that's what they sell them to distributers for.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tensioner-Re...ed43c0&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tensioner-Re...ed43c0&vxp=mtr
Here's a post I made about these pads a while back:
I recently installed those same shoes in my tensioners. I haven't started the bike since (doing a major overhaul and that was only a small part of it), but the quality seems nice and the price was great ($15 for two pads vs $140 for new HD ones)
I had some questions that went unanswered until after I got them, so if you go that route maybe this will help:
-These pads will fit both front and rear tensioners (the resellers I asked had no clue)
-These pads will survive fine in the oven if you prefer to do the oven trick to remove/install new cam bearings (I did 350 degrees)
-You don't NEED their tool to install them. I did mine with a 3/4 socket + punch + small hammer (to knock the old pins out) and the same small hammer (ball peen) to peen the new pin (with the other side on a small 1" metal square that acted as a mini anvil). It liked a bunch of light hits first followed by a few harder ones. Those pins aren't going anywhere until I remove them in another ~50k miles
I had some questions that went unanswered until after I got them, so if you go that route maybe this will help:
-These pads will fit both front and rear tensioners (the resellers I asked had no clue)
-These pads will survive fine in the oven if you prefer to do the oven trick to remove/install new cam bearings (I did 350 degrees)
-You don't NEED their tool to install them. I did mine with a 3/4 socket + punch + small hammer (to knock the old pins out) and the same small hammer (ball peen) to peen the new pin (with the other side on a small 1" metal square that acted as a mini anvil). It liked a bunch of light hits first followed by a few harder ones. Those pins aren't going anywhere until I remove them in another ~50k miles
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11-01-2014 | 08:17 AM
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Those are the right ones, but you do NOT have to spend that much. You can easily swap them out without that tool. Here's a link to some for about $11 each. I bought mine from this seller: http://www.ebay.com/itm/TIMING-CHAIN...item54124ae93c
Here's a post I made about these pads a while back:
Here's a post I made about these pads a while back:
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11-01-2014 | 10:57 AM
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Well it's your money and you certainly have the right to spend it as you wish, but 2 minutes is about all it took me using my basic tools in the garage. All you're doing is driving a pin out, and a socket gives you a solid foundation to do just that (as would any other round chunk of metal that was wide enough to rest the tensioner on the edges, and have a hole in the middle for the pin to fall through)
I just hope they didn't scare you into spending the extra money on that tool
I just hope they didn't scare you into spending the extra money on that tool
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11-01-2014 | 07:07 PM
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I assure you I wasn't scared into the purchase.I feel the 22$ more to have a tool that saves a lot of fumbling and sits squarly and flat on the anvil of my vise and securely holds the tensioner in position while removing and reinstalling the pin is a no brainer............and yeah,it IT IS my money.
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