5 things YOU need to tighten on your HARLEY

what's up guys welcome back it is another wonderful day right here on the channel today we're talking about well finally not just one model multiple models and what comes loose on them five things you need to be checking to make sure they're still tight on your motorcycle so ah fancy transition to work I don't know so for those of you that don't know me my name is John max I'm a highly trained unprofessional right here at Chattahoochee harley-davidson and on this channel I bring you guys to work with me so if you want to learn more about harley-davidson you should consider hitting the subscribe button right down there like I said before today we're talking about multiple models that all have something that comes loose some of them are critical fasteners some aren't it's just stuff that I see all the time in the shop that you guys should know about so you know to check them every now and then so we'll start with Sportsters this one's my very own and I always find front motor mounts loose on them all you really need is a 5/8 wrench Paul I guilt nothing let's go to the other side also tight I'll be perfectly honest I don't know what the torque spec is on that I'll look it up in a minute I'll put it right there so the reason why I don't know though this because to be honest I don't think it's tight enough I've only tighten mine one time I've only tightened the ones that I see for service one time I don't continuously have to tighten it I guess you could take the bolt out and relock cider and all that jazz but I don't really think it's all that necessary you torque it tying it just a little bit past the actual torque spec and it should be fine from there but I found them straight up missing all the time so I figured I'd bring it up so you guys know to check yours and you won't end up losing a bolt touring we've talked about this before this whopping is but the back lever can get loose to see that second camera angle maybe takes forever to replace that spline shaft you got to pull the whole transmission out loosen the shift rod [Music] once the ship fraud is out he's a quarter-inch Alan bit socket and a breaker bar because there's no ratchet head here so it's a lot easier to fit it between the primary and the cylinder without messing up the fins I'm gonna make certain that the shaft is and the lever are lined up where they need to be set the bit socket in first now you can't use a ball island for this you have to use a straight cut Alan just a small little turning its back tide again he's a bond though it'll slip out of that bolt round it out and then you can't get it tighter or looser to get it out of there to replace the lever you have to pull the entire primary off now I didn't replace the bolt on this one because this is a freebie during its service I'm not charging the effort of all or the time to do it it's your bike you can replace the ball altogether and it comes to block match already on it now everything else on this guy's bike is still loose but I already talked about that I'll link it in the description Dinah's pulley bolts get loose it's expensive this time the torque is extremely important it's actually a two-step process when you're actually putting a pulley on the wheel tie them up in a star pattern just like you would on a car wheel the lugs 50 foot-pounds to start back off everything 180 degrees retighten 63 to 71 foot-pounds I think it is for some reason Oh for a little while there it's not real common but they do get loose and when they do it's expensive the pulley bolts will back out just a hair and you there should be warning you notice that the pulleys like you know well somehow people don't notice and the bolts back out enough to then contact the swingarm and by the time that happens the pulleys all round it out the swingarm gets damaged the bolts break and the threads in the hub are all messed up so it is easily the most expensive issue on this whole list today but you can fix it all by grabbing a 5/8 wrench all right yeah I'm not gonna go all the way around but this one is good this is something that I check every time I do a rear wheel at one point pulleys bolts were a critical fastener that's since fallen off the list of critical fasteners for Dyna and there you have it either way though yeah check these because it's high now this guy doesn't actually have to worry about it though because he has way bigger issues to worry about so his bike doesn't roll pulley loose or not I'm going to watch now all right now all models need to have the battery terminals checked at least every 5,000 miles we've talked about this before on the channel but I really didn't want to leave it out and this particular video because it is that important every model has a battery located to replace though your Sportsters for years have been under the left-side cover whether it be an old one well that's promised not even a cover or a new one it's underneath left side cover they're really new ones you actually get to the positive battery cable underneath the seat the Dinah's are under the right side cover for as long as they've been around and touring and softails both underneath the seat v-rod's are pretty much the never you gotta take the airbox off all this stuff I don't even have a we're the example to show you guys the reason I bring this up and probably the most common ones I see we're like an issue has arisen because of battery cables is the Dynamo I've had a few times bikes come in on the trailer or get towed in by a tow company the whole thing could have been avoided if the battery terminals were tightened I just had one last week that they got attributed to another issue and I see that a fair amount where people are expecting it to be something like kind of more complicated something that really needs to be diagnosed and all it really is is a battery terminal that needs to be tightened up so that's why I even bring it up really is because it can save you a fair amount of money in a potential tow truck and it'll save you some time in your garage chase it down something that's non-existent anyway guys that's pretty much what I needed to say right this second when I get done with lunch we'll get back in the shop and I'll show you a couple other things softails most of them come with smoked wheels even the new ones 18 Softail heritage have spoke wheels it's like the only model left almost you need to check those seems like the pulley side is always what is loose checking with a spoke wrench I'll start at the valve stem and once I make it back to the valve stem that I know I've checked them all got a loose one now you don't go all crazy and crank down on them either or your wheel will get all like that's the tightness of each spoke is how you know how straight the wheel is so if you crank down on that loose one so it's super tight it's gonna pull that rim over and then the wheel won't be true anymore and chewing a wheel I know joke a lot of dirtbike guys don't know what's up they can do it like not even really thinking they just true a wheel but it's not fun so for the average guy don't mess your spokes up yes quitting time finally it it's been a really long day but that's pretty much the video this week five things you need to check out tighten up Dyna pulley Sportster motor mounts or stabilizer links whatever you want to call it Touring shift lever which is really kind of all big twins up until seventeen soft tail rear spokes all spokes really but especially the pulley side y'all solovey what am I talking about but check this out guys I got my first bit of fan mail today I've never gotten any fan mail that's why I said it's my first bit message me and let me know it's coming some can you see it cigar City Brewing microbrewery little craft beer from down there where he's at in Tampa my boy Dale did I already say that I don't know I'm really excited about this so fortunately I don't put it in the fridge probably should have put this in the fridge you know like when it got here this morning but oh well guess I'll do it no all right dudes you know the drill if you liked this video give it a big dirty thumbs up if you want to see more videos like this one make sure to hit the subscribe button tap that Bell notification to that way you know that I'm upload and when I'm uploading all that good stuff and share this with your biker boys I don't know they might have a diner that the pulleys about a fall off or something which would suck yeah I guess I'll see you guys in the next one [Music]

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Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 21 2018