Took my bike in this past Saturday for noise coming from the left hand side, forward in the primary area.

The techs pulled the primary tin off and concluded at the time that the Compensating Sprocket was trashed...I called today and now they say that the Cam Shoes are toast as well?

I have 29.7k on this bike...was told that that was an early failure. I was also told that thisnormally happens around 50k.

I change ALL my oils ahead of schedule and use synthetic oils...go figure?

 

There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when the cam shoe tensioners are going to go. I'm anxious to start hearing reports on wear for the new style.

 

From what I seen, cam shoe's will wear and not uncommon to show need for replacement with your
mileage. I'm close to you at 27K on my '05 and will be going to a gear driven cams over the winter.
Many feel the cam shoe design is poor as those cam shoes become brittle over time.

The noise in your primary chain area most likely due to chain out of adjustment. You maintain proper adjustment on it? No experience really with compensator sproket replacement...seems possible I guess,
if you ride it hard and the chain is out of adjustment.
I can tell when mine is needing adjustment, as shifts are not quite as smooth as they should be...finding
neutral, ect.

edit: and you're correct stro. Some have needed replaced at 20K, where others have 50-60K with no problems???

 

My friend's when bad at 11,000 miles. On his 06. You got lucky to go so far. I have 18,000 on my 07 and it starting to make noise.

 

I changed to gear driven cams earlier this summer...38K. The wear on my tensioner shoes was less than the thickness of a dime.

 

I'm close to 30K on my 06 Street Glide and I'll be changing my cam chain tensioners then. Provided they make it that far. No noise yet, knock on wood.

 

went to gear drive at 32 thou. very little wear but now that is out of my mind 510 s/s gear drive works great..

 

05 RKC with 27k,no problem yet.You all have me thinking though.

 

Just got a call from the dealer; the cam tentioners are ok...not sure why they told me they were bad earlier?

They have the rocker boxes and push rods out and still can't locate the noise coming from the engine.

It looks like I won't be going to Octoberfest this year...

 

Just got the call today, my baby will be ready this afternoon.

The front cam spun the bearing and wore into the cam-plate. they repalced both cams and the plate; weather is suppossed to be crappy tomorrow but I'm still goin' to BIKETOBERFEST!!!!!!