I need to replace y stator and looking at the manual it looks pretty straight forward with no special tools required. Am I reading it right and what should I look out for? My mechanical abilities are minimal except for normal maintenance and replacing the bars with all the other goodies involved, ie. SS braded cables and lines, chrome controls and the wiring extensions involved. My Iny wants $100 for the job and claims it will take him about 2 hours, especially if he has to do some grinding around the stator. Is this a fair price, is it something I could tackle myself, and how much grinding, if any, is involved?

 

His price sounds more than fair to me. You will have to pull the inner primary which requires more than just the basic tools that the average Joe has in his garage toolbox. I use to replace several every year but that was over 20 years ago. I don't recall ever having to do any grinding.

 

The manual specificaly states the inner primary does not need to be removed and by looking at the diagrams, it doesn't. It's an 07 Softail Custom

 

I guess I need to look in my manual. Back when I was working on them, the Stator was behind the compensating sprocket which required the removal of the clutch pack and primary chain.

 

what the hell is a stator i thought he misspelled startor

 

Let me look again. But it appears the inner primary does not need to be removed.

Ok, right out of the book.

Note; it is not necessary to remove th inner primrary chaincase to remove the alternator.

Step 2: remove primary cover, primary drive and clutch. See 6.3 DRIVE COMPONENTS.

 

You will have to remove the clutch pack and primary drive. You do not have to remove the inner primary.

 

See the round thing-a-mob with electrical coils on it in the pic

 

You do have to remove the inner primary, but not the inner primary cover. The inner primary consists of everything up to the cover as described above and is going to probably require an air tool to get the compensator nut loose and a torque wrench that torques much higher than the average garage torque wrench is capable of. Having a hub puller is also a good idea.

 

Thanks guys. Case settled - I won't mess with it - let Indy do it.