Hey guys,
During my last ride the bolts holding rear pulley to my rear wheel sheared & completely chewed up my pulley & wheel. It's $900 for new wheel & pulley. I have never turned in a insurance claim before on a bike or car. I have full coverage on my bike with a $500 deductable. Does anyone know if that would be covered under insurance? I use progressive as insurance agent.

 

Insurance isn't going to cover a mechanical failure. The only time I've seen those bolts shear is when somebody didn't torque them properly, or reused the old bolts, or both. Who worked on it last? Might want to talk to them.

 

Um, I did. I powder coated both wheels & basically everything I can take of ohe bike. I ordered new bolts from J&P Cycles (I know to use new bolts as stretching can occur during original torquing) I chased threads w proper tap to remove all old locktite, used new locktite, & torqued to the specs & pattern in service manual. The bolts we're PM bolts, I did notice the bolts we're a bit shorter than stock but not much. Guess I'm just screwed cause I doubt J&P or Performance Machine will do jack about it.

 

What are PM bolts?

 

Performance Machine.

 

where the bolts of the right grade?

 

You might want to think about installing Timeserts. Would NOT install Helicoils. And someone might come on here with good reasons why my idea isn't so pretty good.

 

This is actually a maintenance issue. There's a guy on Youtube, John Maxwell (a Harley Tech in Georgia). Puts out some pretty entertaining videos each week. He covered the need to check and tighten those bolts every once in a while just recently. Check out his channel. He's pretty funny and frequently has some good advice.

 

I sub to his channel. This happened less than 200 miles after I put wheel back on, they didn't loosen that quick.

 

Sounds like you had another issue. Best of luck!