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This topic may have been beat to death, if so sorry. My question is, I have a 2000 SERG with 40,000 miles. I want to replace tensenoirs.Are most going with the screaming eagle upgrade? and doing oil pump as well?....if so, what is a ball park price thru a dealer to have this work done. I went to my local dealer and asked the service rep to quoate me a price, he was unable,, he thought around 8 hrs labor and suggested that  i ask the parts dept for parts prices. I left frustrated that i could not get a simple ballpark price for a job that they no doubt do all the time....

[Twolanerider]

40k miles is certainly worth checking tensioners.  It it'll be another ten years to get another 40k you can at least consider going cheap and just replacing the stock tensioners.  If willing to do more, however, might at least consider dumping the tensioners altogether and going to gear drive.

[SBB]

40k miles is certainly worth checking tensioners.  It it'll be another ten years to get another 40k you can at least consider going cheap and just replacing the stock tensioners.  If willing to do more, however, might at least consider dumping the tensioners altogether and going to gear drive.

At 20K my 03 Classic tensioners were showng a little wear so I replaced them.
At 44K miles I checked them again and they had even less wear but I replaced them again.
The bike is at 52K now and maybe sometime in 2014 when I hit 65K I will look at them again.
It appears to me the chain must get smoother with age and each set of tensioners last longer.
I don't know if the tensioner material has improved.

                       

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[screem]

What were average  cost for replacing tensenoirs only?

[Twolanerider]

What were average  cost for replacing tensenoirs only?

I started to write that the tensioners were pretty inexpensive.  Then realized it had been seven or eight years since I'd bought a set.  What I remembered being around $30 for the pair now showed up at $130 for the pair.  That's some real inflation.  Almost have to wonder if mother Harley has priced them way up as an excise tax to price users toward the newer option.

So $130-ish or $110-ish depending on where you buy, plus a gasket set plus replacement pressure spring kit for the cam plate.  Something like the Baisley or the Feuling spring kit.  They really are cheap and do good things for the oil pressure from the stock pumps.

[SilvrBulet]

First Screem, congrats for getting to 40k on stock chain tensioners!  Mine failed on my '01 Blue at 37k as I recall (unfortunately I recently sold Blue and send along all the paperwork so I am going by memory here).   Even though I rode the bike into the dealer, they said they were so far gone that damage was done so I had to replace the oil pump. cam plate, etc..  I went with the hydraulic chain tensioner conversion and one step up on Andrews cams.  I saw the recommendation within to go gears but I was advised by my dealer that I should, with 37k miles be concerned about pinion run-out which could make the gears noisy.  Might be something you want to inquire about if gears is a direction you are considering.  My recollection was that with all the parts & labor it was $1,6xx out the door.  You are very smart to get a ball-park price first.  I did exactly the same thing and when the completion of the repair was delayed and I got the bike back with a bigger bill, about $2,200, I used their estimate to get them back to the original $1.6xx number.

Good luck with your repair.

Silvr