Y’all may have seen my post entitled Pow Bang when starting hot. After much research I decided the compensator was worn out. Took things apart, yes the 3 “spokes” on the compensator were missing a lot of meat. Plenty of metal in the primary oil, which had 6,000 miles on it. Bought a new Darkhorse Man-O-War comp. Also ordered a new primary chain, tensioner, and clutch hub bearing from my local stealer. I don’t think I could ever get the chain clean enough. Took a while for all the parts to come in. I get the supply chain disruptions from the Plague.
Took my clutch basket with new hub bearing to the service dept for them to press the old bearing out and new bearing in. Service writer says it might be 5 or so days. OK…after more than a week, I called today. They haven’t touched it. The regular SR was not available, the kid I talked to said he would look into it. Took him over a hour to even find it. I told him I would just cone and get it, I’ll find a press. Doesn’t even need to be a hydraulic press, the shop manual says an arbor press will work. He called me back 15 minutes later, says “we will get to it today”. This is 11:30 am. I call back at 5:00, they still haven’t touched it. WTF?? They only have 3 techs. He says they are all on big jobs. I am a 10 year loyal customer. I’m not asking for a Stage 4 kit and putting me in front of other customers. This is a 20 minute job. I told him I would be in tomorrow at noon, I’ll pick it up whether it’s done or not. I can find a press alright, but I figured they would have the proper fixtures to hold the flywheel/basket to make the job easy.
I’d really like to get back on the road and try out that Man-O-War comp…
Am I being unrealistic???