congrats and welcome to the forum

 

Congrats and welcome. Now go check the cam chain tensioners...

 

Glad to!

Only 3 years of all the Twin Cams manufactured feature a hot forged crank with the all important Timken Lefty bearing for lower end strength. That was 99 to 02.

In 03 the accountants took over and the Timken Lefty bearing disappeared, and only from demand form those who knew something about them, was put into the P&A book in the Screamin' Eagle Performance section. Offered for 03 and later models, " for those requiring the very best under high torque situations."

And your bike ( and mine,) came standard with it. Part of the reason I'm sure that I'm way past 100,000 miles, ( 116,000 actually,) and the bike still runs like new, with pretty much just preventive maintenance.

There ya' go. Replace the cam tensioners with a gear drive cam set up when the time comes and ride it.