hi this is my first post.
I have an 06 FLTRI with 49k on it. It is stock 88A except slip ons, Ness big sucker and PowerCommander. The inner front cam tensioner and cam bearing disintegrated and I can't find any pieces of the bearing inside the cam case. I did find pieces of the tensioner, but no metal or bearing pieces. The hole the cam bearing was set into is damaged. The hole appears to be true to it's stock dimension, but there is scoring marks that almost look like a very coarse thread. I have removed the cams and plate and that cam is toast also, so I know I need new inner and outer cam bearings and new cams and to split the case and clean it out...
but my questions are:
what other damage may be done and
will the case be a total loss with the damage to the cam bearing hole or will a new bearing press in and hold or can the damage be repaired.
I know it is difficult to see in the pic, but I would appreciate advice on course of action.
thanks
Millerious

 

Welcome to the forum...sorry your motor took a **** on you...

 

I would smooth out any burrs and press a new bearing in using the correct tool. if it goes in tight, it's a keeper. Freeze the bearing over night before you put it in.

 

Might as well upgrade to a set of gear driven cams, never worry about chain tensioners again.

If you split tha cases and remove all the bearing fragments you should be GTG as long as the new bearing goes in nice and snug. I just replaced mine a few weeks ago, easy peasy, didn't need to freeze the bearing either.


cheers

 

thank you all. I'm having someone more experienced split the cases for me. Crossing my fingers there are no surprises.

 

First mod as soon as you get a TC bike as far as I'm concerned. Forget apes, seats, pegs, etc, etc. Get the gear drive no matter what year. It's not a matter of if, but when. I think the TC is a great motor, but HD should have gear driven it from the get go.

 

Yea but if you want to go to gear cams then you will probably have to send the crank out to be trued and welded. Just stock tolerances on the run out that "pass" HD quality control will not be tight enough to run a gear set. My $.02

 

Not necessarily. I just dropped mine off today to get a Feuling set up installed, with the 574 gear drive cams. With the Feuling Crankshaft runout tool mine was a "smidge" under .0025 - within specs to add gear drive without welding the crank.

Also, I had 40k on my tensioners with an Andrews 37h chain cam and both tensioners looked real good. Easily could have gone another 25k+. That being said, I'm glad to be switching to gear drive...

 

You might have caught it in time. However those pieces that you cant find are what will cause further failure. These weak a$$ bearings are costing major dollars. Here is my last experience with this type of failure. To a tune of $5,000 for a total rebuild to a 103" Good luck with your repair. https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...me-advice.html

 

Welcome and good luck with your repair.