I'm mechanically inclined but I never worked on a motorcycle engine before. Have lots of tools and I do pretty much everything else on a bike, car, tractor, house or whatever.



Dealer wants $1k to plop one in,


I magine I could do it myself for cheaper and have it dyno tuned afterwards.

I have the SE Race tuner so I can't just download a map after the install. .


Not sure what Cam or parts to get but I ride mostly solo if that helps. I'm quessing you have to press in the Cam and or bearings ?



Also don't know if I'll need any other parts .

 

You can definitely do it yourself. Use adj push rods or pull rocker covers and arms off to reuse stock push rods. I reused prods. More work but cheaper and no worries about adjusting incorrectly or things coming loose. You need to press in inner cam bearings, not the cams though. SE 204, Andrews 26, Andrews 48. Some like Woods cams also.

Lots of info for cam swaps. Google and you will find. Here is a vid:

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...nge-video.html

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It is not very difficult at all. The cams and inner and outer bearings get pressed in and on. If you don't want to remove the heads you can get adjustable pushrods and cut out the old ones.

I would imagine the $1000 quote includes the parts? If you work on everything else this should be easy for you. You do need some speical tools for the pulling of teh inner and outer bearings and to press the new ones in along with getting them pressed onto the cam shafts. I use the tool from George's Garage. By the way my adjustable push rods have never come loose. 20K miles and counting. If you are going to pull the heads you might as well do a big bore build at the same time as all that you have left to do is pull the cylinders and pistons.

Drew

 

If you want some cams that will be really nice now AND if you big bore it later, contact fuelmoto for the woods TW-555. That's what I am running and they made a HUGE difference. $1000 seems excessive. The only way I can see that being possible is if you are trying to keep stock pushrods, they have to go through the top end of your motor, which means pulling the tank and everything. If you go with adjustables, they will simply cut out the old ones. The money you would save in labor pays for the adjustable pushrods and then some. As for ease of install, there are guys on here who will tell you its easy, I personally took mine to the dealer. My labor was only 4 hours. You do need a few special tools.

 

Go to Jamies site at www.fuelmotousa.com , heused to have a full write up on changing out the cams , step by step

http://www.fuelmotousa.com/cams.htm

 

When I did the research on mine, I very nearly decided to do them myself, then pussed out. From everything I read, it sounded like a very easy job, especially on a later-year model, but I just figured I'd rather have the security of having my local indy do it just in case. It sounds like you have the skills and tools to get it done, so if you are so inclined I'd say go for it.

Roger

 

ooh ahh ... I'm getting excited .

 

Go ahead and do it...Andrews 48...you won't be totally bored anymore.

 

I put cams and new type tensioner setup in mine didn't have any of the specialty tools but did borrow the bearing pulled from autozone took me about 7 or 8 hours to complete while I has the tank off I adjusted my steering head bearings. If your somewhat knowledgable you can do it no problem

 

No special tools required.

1. Use AutoZone blind hole puller to remove inner cam bearings.
2. Use removed cam shaft to drive in new inner cam bearings.
3. Hold rear brake to loosen/tighten pinion and rear cam bolts.
4. Rotate rear wheel (5th gear) or rock back and forth to align oil pump to crank pinion; service manual method.

One tool that I do use is the pushrod clip installer. I have never mastered the techniiqu and they are real PITA for me.

No cam bearings in cam plate; no pressing required.

You can do it, just get the serice manua; that's is a must, not a nice to have.

Go get her tuned and ride.