Some bad news on my end. I dropped my bike at the mechanic, goal being to change the lifters & pushrods with some S&S ones.
He called me with bad news: one of the lifter had cracked (see attached pictures), lost a bearing and/or a needle (? the thing holder the bearing balls spaced) in the process, damaged a bit the hole it was moving in (lack of vocabulary here)
The trouble of this is that we probably had junk moving around the engine. So we decided to remove the carter, oil pump, to check & remove what we could. He called me yesterday, telling me he found the missing needle - jammed in the oil pump rotor. I don't have pictures of it.
So in the end I need to also replace the pump - that I had replaced not even 10 months ago with the screamin eagle version. And I need the full kit actually, pump + plate as it's apparently not possible to order them separately. It's 540€ !
Is there a way to get spare parts for those? Basically it's just the rotor that I need to replace, both inner & outer ones.