That may be because for the last 3 years, the CVO's have had a 110 engine. Hello! This is the CVO forum. Seriously, how many members were there when the 2006 came out back in 2005? A mere fraction of today's membership. I have no figures to support this, but I think it's a pretty good bet that there are more members on here with 110 engines on their CVO's than any other engine size, and at this point probably followed by a very distant second for 103". Again, this is the CVO forum. How many posts were you expecting for 80" motors on here?
Everyone is aware of the problem with head gaskets, which the MOCO has issued the recall on, and have corrected on further production. I don't care what type of car you own, when you take it in for service, that's one of the things the dealer should be checking for on every visit...any new recalls for your vehicle.
I grew up in the auto parts business, and I am thankful that cars broke down, or I may not have had such an advantaged life. Yes, there were some items that you could pretty much count on going wrong on a certain vehicle, and then there were the items that were anyone's guess as far as when the next person might need that part. It seems to me that the 110 engine is very similar. You could anticipate that pretty much everyone was going to experience the problem with head gaskets at some point and the MOCO has stepped in. Other failures don't seem to be so predictable. Of course, someone out there is going to have everything possible happen to them on one bike and that could cause a pretty bitter attitude. That's what it would do to me.
As far as where this post has come from, I tend to also agree that a lot of the problems are caused by the owners of the bikes. I was always told to just leave these bikes alone before ever messing with anything that changes the compression. I was always told that once you do that, forget ever getting one of these bikes to run properly again. Well, we all know that this is not necessarily true, but think where that logic came from. Lots of backyard mechanics, much like many of us, that tinkered without really having the proper sophistication to attempt the modification at hand. Then being too stubborn to take the bike somewhere to resolve the issue properly, or just the plain unavailability of someone knowing how to reverse what was done wrong. Anyway, to make a long story short here, I really think that if I could just leave my bike alone, completely stock, with no changes to anything, I would feel extremely confident that I could ride for many many years on my 110 engine and have no problems. Once I start tinkering with just the exhaust and intake, and then tweaking the ECM, I have already lowered my confidence level of whether I will ever have any problems with my bike. I'm not one that could ever let a bike go stock, so I'll always expect the unexpected, since I made changes to the way the bike came. Well, I have things to go get done, so I have to end my little rant here.
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