RibEye
Senior Member
A friend, with an '03 Fatboy, just lost her engine to cam chain tensioner feet going bye-bye. I warned her that she needed to check them, and got the stuff needed to check my own. I said we could check hers as well.
She mentioned the need to check them, to a local indy that she had doing her service. He checked them and said they were good for at least another 10K miles. She just told me he said "they were good", because, the answer she got would have triggered me to get them bad boys out of there! Anyway, 3K miles later, "thar she blows!?!"
Dealer is putting in a new engine. Good thing she paid for the maintenance plan when she bought teh scoot from them last year. I thought she got took. Looks like I was so wrong. She has about 28K miles on the scoot, in total.
So sad. I've got a little over 23K miles on my '03 RKC. I now have all I need to check my tensioners, so I'll be checking them within the next couple of weeks.
Enjoy,
Rich P
She mentioned the need to check them, to a local indy that she had doing her service. He checked them and said they were good for at least another 10K miles. She just told me he said "they were good", because, the answer she got would have triggered me to get them bad boys out of there! Anyway, 3K miles later, "thar she blows!?!"
Dealer is putting in a new engine. Good thing she paid for the maintenance plan when she bought teh scoot from them last year. I thought she got took. Looks like I was so wrong. She has about 28K miles on the scoot, in total.
So sad. I've got a little over 23K miles on my '03 RKC. I now have all I need to check my tensioners, so I'll be checking them within the next couple of weeks.
Enjoy,
Rich P