Time to replace drive belt.

[trikermutha]

So on a scale from 1-10 how hard was it to replace the rear belt?

 

[trikermutha]

The friend i mentioned has a rock hole in the center of the new belt, I wouldn't worry about that. But i sure wish we lived closer together so we could give you hand just for the experience.
My dealer said they have never changed the belt on a tri glide either.

Acouple years ago i had a shop talk me into an after market belt.
I cant swear if the belt was inferior or if they took the lazy way out and damaged the belt while installing it? but the darn thing started tearing the drive lugs off of it at the end of last riding season when i was about 400 miles from home.
I reached jackson hole wyoming and found the dealer only sold apperall and such. ( thats about as worthless as mammories on a boar swine).
The only option i had was to go and equadistance back to Pocatello Idaho, or come on ahead to Casper,Wy.
The darn belt held up long enough for me to baby it home but i sure wouldn't want to have gone any further.
I just replaced replaced the belt and front and rear drive pulleys ( i suspect the swing arm and wheel was not not quite alighned right, I could see uneven wear on the drive pulleys) so the operation was fresh in the memmory.
I bought the original equipt. belt and i would just as soon do this type of work myself and not have to suffer some elses mistakes?
Paul

Just finished installing the stator and inner cover. Wow I was amazed how easy it was to pull the stator sealing plug thru the engine case. Far from the old evos that were a SOB to pull thru the case. I did buy new sealing bolts for the inner primary and engine to primary sealing gasket. Dont want to do the job twice.

 

[kimber45]

So on a scale from 1-10 how hard was it to replace the rear belt?

I would rate it a 9 to 9.5 for the average (me) Joe home repair guy

 

[kimber45]

I got the job finished Saturday. I put about 100 miles on it Sunday. All is well. Thank God for his help.

 

[trikermutha]

I got the job finished Saturday. I put about 100 miles on it Sunday. All is well. Thank God for his help.

sounds great..I guess you will have to rechecked after 1k miles and maybe readjust the belt again??

 

[ttanthony]

I got the job finished Saturday. I put about 100 miles on it Sunday. All is well. Thank God for his help.

There is no one better to help. You can't go wrong with him by your side.

 

[pcombe]

Just finished installing the stator and inner cover. Wow I was amazed how easy it was to pull the stator sealing plug thru the engine case. Far from the old evos that were a SOB to pull thru the case. I did buy new sealing bolts for the inner primary and engine to primary sealing gasket. Dont want to do the job twice.

Amen to that!