I was always interested about what happened with your 1 2 3 4 (?) motors, and read all your updates. Hope you don't mind my asking: What happened to cause you to wait for the 2019s, and is this what you wanted?
Yes, they wanted to give me a 18. I had a couple of reasons to demand a 19 1) figure best shot of them re designing M8 to fix sumping would be on new year model. Any major design change would have to pass EPA compliance so though Moco is telling customers they are getting "19" motors, it is impossible for them to release before that. 2) if they have not fixed issue and new bike sumps on me I will let dealer replace the motor and then sell bike and give up on the M8. IMO it takes at least 5000 miles to see if new design is actually fixed or not (maybe more) and if id does sump and I sell it obviously a 19 will be worth quite a bit more then a 18 which is worth waiting a few months for.
Rep claims they have come up with solution and are replacing sumped motors now with new design (as I said they can only do so much so not sure I believe him) and so far have done 15 in the last few weeks and not one has come back yet. Maybe Heatwave on this forum is one of them and I hope so but I wasn't prepared to take that gamble.
Of course this is the end result of a long complete PIA battle (would have put you all in a coma if I was posting all the way through..) with Moco that started beginning of May and just ended (hopefully) last week. Cant imagine after that the paperwork next week will be anything different than what we agreed to verbally but I guess it won't be done/done until I see that and actually take delivery in October.
Thankfully my 12 Roadglide is running great so just hoping that old girl holds out for me till then. She is getting a bit "long in the tooth" with over 60,000 miles but only has about 12000 miles on S&S 124.
See now why I haven't been updating??