Originally Posted by QuickThrottle

Bought my FXSTC with 2000 miles on it. Had a "clunk" in ther front end over bumps. The gentleman I purchased it from and I were talking and I mentioned it. He advised that his local Harley Dealer had checked it twice for that and said it was normal. I did a search for 07 FXSTC front end clunk and came up with a service bulletin from Harley reference it. Seems the head nut torque at the facory was set to 35 Ft.Lbs and now they want it torqued to between 70 & 80 and the washer replaced with a hardened one that does not have the lock tange on it like the original. I called 5 Harley Dealers that none ofwhich said they knew anything about this..... I ordered the washer, put it on, torqued the head nut to 80 Ft.Lbs. and applied lock tite to the head nut threads as the new washer did not have the lock tange to bend up to keep the head nut from rotating. Shot a little grease to it and has not clunked since. This was 4,000 miles ago.
My first Harley and this incident did not build much faith with me in the dealers wrenches. I'll do my own as best I can.