Harley belt

[nzspokes]

I had no idea how long it would to change a belt. Mind blown.

[jim.cox]

$340 for a rubber band seems bloody steep to me

[boman]

I had no idea how long it would to change a belt. Mind blown.

You have to take a lot of parts off a Harley to change a belt. DAMHIK.

[Grubber]

Possible that the parts guys were still up in North cleaning up Pie wrappers and Yoghurt pottles from the big VIP dinner they had up there.

[awayatc]

It took me 8 hours to do my first belt. The second will be faster. No2 has done 80,000 and is still going strong. I suspect a tight belt is easly damaged by stones than a looser one.

Done one on somebody else's dyna once, and one on mine...softtail harder to do.

I agree with the loser belt theorie, and had mine not to tight, but the amount of grit and soft tar on the roads was horrendous.
mind you mechanic installed new belt way tighter then i did mine.....
So not sure anymore

[AllanB]

I think what most are forgetting is that a drive belt is endless - no join at all. With a chain you break the old one - thread on the new then join it back up. If you think what needs to be removed to do the same job with a endless loop (swingarm removal for example) it will eat up the hours.

Cost is fine - you will easily drop the same (more) on quality sprockets and chain.


How many different belts do HD run? I'd think most of there bike would be setup to run the same belt? May be completely wrong. Anyway - sucky the local dealer did not have multiple ones in stock. Have they had that big NZ HD run yet? If so maybe they killed a few belts - if not maybe they should bloody order some!

How did you like our earthquake road repairs? I have noticed a lot more adventure bikes on the roads in the past five years.....

[nzspokes]

I think what most are forgetting is that a drive belt is endless - no join at all. With a chain you break the old one - thread on the new then join it back up. If you think what needs to be removed to do the same job with a endless loop (swingarm removal for example) it will eat up the hours.

Cost is fine - you will easily drop the same (more) on quality sprockets and chain.


How many different belts do HD run? I'd think most of there bike would be setup to run the same belt? May be completely wrong. Anyway - sucky the local dealer did not have multiple ones in stock. Have they had that big NZ HD run yet? If so maybe they killed a few belts - if not maybe they should bloody order some!

How did you like our earthquake road repairs? I have noticed a lot more adventure bikes on the roads in the past five years.....

Yerp get the belts are endless. Just didnt know how much needs to come off to get to it.

Adventure bikes, meh. SUVs of motorcycles.

[awayatc]

I think what most are forgetting is that a drive belt is endless - no join at all. With a chain you break the old one - thread on the new then join it back up. If you think what needs to be removed to do the same job with a endless loop (swingarm removal for example) it will eat up the hours.

Cost is fine - you will easily drop the same (more) on quality sprockets and chain.


How many different belts do HD run? I'd think most of there bike would be setup to run the same belt? May be completely wrong. Anyway - sucky the local dealer did not have multiple ones in stock. Have they had that big NZ HD run yet? If so maybe they killed a few belts - if not maybe they should bloody order some!

How did you like our earthquake road repairs? I have noticed a lot more adventure bikes on the roads in the past five years.....

Used to live near and in Chch, moved a year before quakes.....
spend 3 days near latimer square on trip and had a good look around....
fuck you me, the damage is mind boggling enormously huge....
some realy nice new buildings going up, but it will be years and years of hard work to heal some of thise scars...
Roads are very spoiler low rider unfriendly...
i went over some very new still wet patches of roadworks with a few truckloads of chip strewn on top....

not that many different belts for harley,
maybe 2? Different widths, and a few different tooth set lengths...
mine however is not a brandnew bike, but common as muck beltwise.

Radical choppers stock way more mechanical parts then rolling thunder do...
rolling thundef cater more for all the sort of things most people make fun of.....
i e near new and new showroom condition bikes,
And every imaginable bit of kit with a HD logo on.....

my bike is 16 years old, and it's ridden like a bike should be ridden....
it has been places no showroom Harleys venture....

and yes i can pick it up by myself. ..
don't ask how i found out.....

[Maha]

It's not unusual for bike shops to be out of stock of the things that crap out regularly. It because they crap out regularly but logic would suggest that parts which need replacing more often than not, would be in abundance if the parts department are doing their job.

I once needed a Stepper Motor and Housing for my Triumph Sprint, Mechanic said ''that's a normal fault of these bikes'' and he had to order the part in from England. Not a one to be found in NZ anywhere.

[admenk]

and yes i can pick it up by myself. ..
don't ask how i found out.....

...so, how did you found out?

[awayatc]

The hard way......

[admenk]

I managed to pick up mine off the road outside the dairy in Patea, the day I bought it......and then I cried

[RGVforme]

8 hours and getting close to $400....That's worse than cambelts on most cars paying someone else to do it.

Never had a chain break wear is pretty easy to spot before hand....Yeah Nah you can keep belt drives.

[scumdog]

You have to take a lot of parts off a Harley to change a belt. DAMHIK.

Ah, one of the delights of a Sportster - fitting a new belt is 'do at home' job with minimal tools.

[RGVforme]

I think what most are forgetting is that a drive belt is endless - no join at all. With a chain you break the old one - thread on the new then join it back up. If you think what needs to be removed to do the same job with a endless loop (swingarm removal for example) it will eat up the hours.

Cost is fine - you will easily drop the same (more) on quality sprockets and chain.


How many different belts do HD run? I'd think most of there bike would be setup to run the same belt? May be completely wrong. Anyway - sucky the local dealer did not have multiple ones in stock. Have they had that big NZ HD run yet? If so maybe they killed a few belts - if not maybe they should bloody order some!

How did you like our earthquake road repairs? I have noticed a lot more adventure bikes on the roads in the past five years.....

So belt and chain drive HDs still require the same removal of parts to access the drive line itself when fitting an endless belt or chain?.Or are the drivelines different between the two?.