Your friend was lucky he did not have more damage. Did they just replace the stock spring tensioners or did they install the upgrade (hydralic kit). Either way he still would have had to pay to have it done. Unless he did it himself. Does not sound like that was going to happen. What is the other co-worker guy going to do, wait for his to blow up?

 

Purchased the SE 211 cams, adjustable pushrods, spacer kit and gasket before opening my '03 up. When I found the tensioners severly worn I made the decision to stay the course as I was in too $deep. Next surprise was the $75 I paid for 2 little pieces of plastic with meatl brackest and springs. OK, I own a couple twin cams, 1 with the low volume oil pump system, It wouldn't be soo bad since i do my own work if the cost of the tensioners come down to something reasonable

 

I looked at mine at 28K. Inner one was almost worn out. I installed an S&S gear drive, new cams, cam bearings and lifters. That was 80,000 miles ago. Haven't had to remove that cover since!

 

Yeah, but... Evos are known to eat base-gaskets, rocker cover gaskets, cam-bearings and hydralic lifters all before they hit 100,000 miles. My TC88 has had fewer problems in 110,000 miles than my two Evos had in 40,000.

 

I've heard fo making fun of the guys who DON'T do their own, but making fun of the guys who do? That's a new one. Do they make fun of you for wearing pants or standing up to pee, anything like that?

 

Don't get too smug there garand. Your '08 has tensioners that need mandatory maintenance too.
Waiting any longer than 10K miles to do a spring tensioner inspection on an 88"er is foolish. Sure, some have had good fortune with those things but it's a pure gamble and the house always has the edge.

 

Within a month of buying my '00 Electra Glide I installed Andrews 21s and gear drives, was not going to wait for them to grenade. They WILL grenade, it's just a matter of when.

I had a Kawasaki 900 Ninja that dropped a valve with 50k on it 7 years old. Kawa had a TSB on the spring retainers and the dealer covered the rebuild if I brought it the motor, saved me about $2500.00.

Does MoCo have a list of TSB's?



cheers

 

As in your prior post, 28,000 miles, cams, tensioners, bearings, lifters and a gear drive? Yep, you gotta good one there.

 

Bill, the TC motor changed in 2006-2007. The cam chain follower arrangement is completely revamped. the ones that have all the problems are the spring loaded tensioners in the 1999-2005 variants.

~Joe

 

No. 07+ no more worries. Its a TC88 issue. HD got it right with the 96".