Outer tensioner thoughts!

[fatboy]

Would only be worth while if you could drill out the inter tensioner in place on the cam plate, saving pulling the cams out of the plate.

[wurk_truk]

That Cyco Gaskets nylon shoe and jig will be for the old spring tensioners 99 - 06, yes ?

Hey FSG... the answer is YES.  Stroker, Rredneckin 2 and myself quizzed the Cyco guy pretty hard on this.

Fatboy...  it can save a guy $130ish.  To me?... especially on a stock bike... a nice savings... IMHO... a nice enough savings to recommend doing that instead of a possible upgrade.  It is something a DIY could do at home.  A once every winter maintenance kind of thing and not sweat it.

[FSG]

Thanks and    I'll get some when they become available, although I run gears I work on a few still on chains due to budget restrictions and have enough old tensioners around to fix a few and have them on standby.

[Karl H.]

Are these replacement shoes shown anywhere in the net? Are there any pics available?
I cann't imagine that you can change the shoes so easy. Disassembly of the whole thing is quite easy. With a screwdriver as a lever you can remove the arms of the tensioner from the shoe axis. But the axis is made of hardened steel and can not be riveted.

[DblackmanC]

WVULTRA....

My bike is a '06 Dyna. I would guess it would be the same as '07's ??

The H-D dealer looked up the part number and then went and got a bag of them to look at. Can you just look and tell the difference? They were a flat pan head type bolt with six (6) flat sides?


Dan

[WVULTRA]

Dan:

According to the '06 Technical Forum info, the Dyna did have the new style cam plate, pump, tensioners, etc.  Of course, factory could have used an allen/pan head bolt for the tensioner in the '06s vs the torx; but we wouldn't know for sure what the correct bolt was without consulting an '06 factory parts catalog.

Maybe someone here on the forum with a parts manual can confirm.

Have the tensioners ever been out of your dyna prior to now?  Seems strange the bolts would have been torqued that tight to cause a failure when removing the bolts.  But using the wrong torx bit (25 vs 27) could have damaged the head as previously mentioned.

[Herko]

Dan.
After doing some checking, there's a good reason you had a hex socket bolt on your primary tensioner. The 2006 Dyna PM shows the p/n for that bolt to be a 927A in lieu of the 942 on subsequent years. Description for the 927A displays "HEX" whereas the 942 says "TORX".

[autoworker]

Damn Slik Rik... that looks horrible!  Any ideas of whats up?

As an FYI, we saw a neat little piece at the show.   Cyco Gaskets now has a deal where the sell ONLY the nylon shoe.  If you buy 2 shoes, you get a jig for $5 to drill out the old rivet and install a new rivet.   One could have 'new' cam shoes for $7 each.  What a great little invention, huh?  Instead of $65 or so.... $7!!!!!

Good for Cyco.I hope they sell boatloads of them and they perform well.

It seems that HD wants to stick it to people that need to replace them and make a killing on the replacement shoe assemblies or get them on the conversion kit.

For some people it's just about all the $$$ they can spare to own and maintain a HD.

[DblackmanC]

Thanks Herko....now I know I'm not going crazy or blind.

Dan