Anyone have experience good or bad with a Diamond primary chain? Since RK discontinued them, not much choice. Back in my Shovelhead days Diamond final drive chains sucked.
No, but the HD chains seem good, and they're still available at a reasonable price.
-JW
Tsubaki
Quote from: Mule on June 19, 2019, 02:40:13 AM
Tsubaki
They haven't made HD primary chains in some time now.
http://harleytechtalk.com/htt/index.php?topic=102936.msg1215147#msg1215147
Quote from: JW113 on June 18, 2019, 06:20:14 PM
No, but the HD chains seem good, and they're still available at a reasonable price.
-JW
That's what I went with. Have had good service from them.
I think Regina private labels for Drag Specialty and James Simonelli at Twin Power is reselling a high quality chain that is made in Japan. I know several 180hp baggers that are running the TP chain. Neither of the owners have said anything negative about the primary chain.
I went with the HD one, which I thought was a Regina. didn't know Twin Power had a good one. From Japan, could be a RK, maybe ?
T Bone shot here...new compensators are expensive .
Oil is expensive.
An HD clutch sucks.
A BDL set up sheds 22 lbs of weight,
gets rid of a HD clutch and provides a really great one.
And no oil.
Was the best choice I ever made.(instead of yet another chain, sprocket and comp.)
Tsubaki, ran them on my shovel and iron head took for a ride to stretch and readjusted and didn't have to touch for a while all the drag racers use them
Quote from: bobrk1 on August 23, 2019, 04:25:37 AM
Tsubaki, ran them on my shovel and iron head took for a ride to stretch and readjusted and didn't have to touch for a while all the drag racers use them
Scroll down. Has already been posted that they are no longer available.
A primary chain can last a ton of miles or a weekend.
It can handle a bunch of HP, or stretch and be junk with only 100.
It's ALL how the power is applied.
I've had primary chains stand up on their own after a hard weekend, and some that lasted more than a year or more with zero issues under normal roll on, cruzin' driving situations (with occasional hammer time stuff of course)....
They cost what 70-100 bucks?
It's maintenance (spark plugs, etc).........know your riding style, know your parts, and do regular inspections.
Call John at Bandit for a chain.