Talking about 3 bearings in above quote. The one on the outer shaft goes thru the inner primary cover. (This one is called the inner primary bearing) Then there is one inside the clutch drum that supports the clutch hub when you pull the clutch in and the steel disk and the friction disks are allowed to come apart. This bearing supports the outer hub of the clutch. Third is in transmission bearing on the outer drive gear that supports the end of the transmission and the small belt pulley on the secondary drive belt.
There is also a forth bearing on the other side of the transmission acting as a lazy Susan thrust bearing that spins when you pull the clutch in that is at the beginning end of the push rod. Do I make sense now? Hard to keep all the inner and outer stuff straight. There is 4 shafts passing out of the transmission inside each other with three making it into primary. Three separate seals on trans side and one on primary side. Its also the vent thru here for the primary which vents into transmission and shares the transmission vent tube. Also in my previous post I said seal could get cut from metal but it can also leak simply by the bearing going bad and have more shake and this motion will overwhelm the seal and cause it to weep.

 

What did you find out about your bike?

 

Bike's still in the shop. Should be ready tomorrow or Thursday. They said they had to get some parts. I didn't ask which parts. Will post again in the next day or two.

 

Hello,

New to the forum and looking to get a harley. I've been looking at alot of superglides and found one perfect for what I want. 2004 super glide 28k miles. It has been dropped, dent in tank and thats about it. Rode it for about 20 miles today. Ran fine took corners great. Just wondering if anyone could give me any tips on possibly buying a bike that has been dropped. Thank you

 

You should start a new thread.

smithbrl...what turned out to be wrong with your bike?

 

I had the same vibration @ 70-75 and roaring sound, cost me a new compensator, primary chain, auto adjuster, clutch basket, clutch hub and both bearings, 07 ulta w/ 40,000 mi....drain your primary oil and see if there is metal shavings on the plug. I was told the auto adjuster was tightening the chain to much, and the splines in the clutch hub started breaking off and grinded up the rest. Don't mean to scare the hell out of you, but drain the oil, it's only a quart of oil to rule it out.

 

 

Be real nice if Smith would get back to us and report the findings. Sort of grabs ya when guys come asking others for their time on imput and they they cant find the time to let us know what happened. go figure!!!!!!

 

Sorry you got "grabbed" there, Stucky. My bad.

There didn't seem to be much interest in the thread for the last 3 months but I should have followed up, anyway. I hate it when that happens, too.

The left passenger floorboard bracket was broken and put a hole in the inner primary case. On my way to the dealer I went down a pretty steep curb that bumped me pretty good, but I've bumped harder before with no problem.

It was after the service dept closed when I picked the bike up so I didn't talk to a tech. I got the warranty ticket that had parts on it. Comment was: Replaced inner primary and left passenger floorboard.

He's running and riding great. No problems since.