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[hacksaw]

I just turned 22k on my '06 cvo 103.  I bought the bike in 07 with 6k miles and have did nothing but pipes, tuner and air cleaner.  I'm pretty religous about changing all 3 holes and I'm pretty easy on the bike.  What should I be looking at as far as motor work, cam tensioners etc.??  Thanks in advance.

[Unbalanced]

Check the crank before you do anything.   That will help you decide what the next steps are if the crank is good, may consider the conversion on the cam plate / cams or go gear drive or need to have the crank fixed and go from there.

Tensioners are the big getcha / gotcha

I would also do a leak down and compression test to be sure all else is right with the engine.



As far as motor work:

Consideratons will be

Throttlebody, exhaust, cam and compression.    There are enough builds on the site you should have no issue deciding what works for your style of riding.

A Recommendation would be


10 to 1
Gear Drive cams
S&S 570 ez start   no screwing around with compression releases and having to clean them or degunk them.
48-50mm throttlebody
Stock injectors  4.35
good 2 into 1 pipe / falsie if you want that symetrical look
Deck your heads .040- .060 depending on how many CC's they are
Flat top piston
Clean the heads up

Ride it for 50-100k

CVOStu and a few others have this combo on this site and its tried / true and runs well.

[HILLSIDECYCLE.COM]

I just turned 22k on my '06 cvo 103.  I bought the bike in 07 with 6k miles and have did nothing but pipes, tuner and air cleaner.  I'm pretty religous about changing all 3 holes and I'm pretty easy on the bike.  What should I be looking at as far as motor work, cam tensioners etc.??  Thanks in advance.

You can open the cam chest, and put an eyeball on the cam shoes, as that is really the only problematic area of that engine.
A small dental mirror will allow inspection of the inner shoe w/o removing the cam plate.
Other than that, your engine will roll off well north of 100,000 miles w/o major attention.
Scott

[timo482]

that engine is the last year of that design - very very durable.

however the cam chain tensioners SUCK

there is a kit to swap the tensioners, front chain, new cam plate and new larger oil pump from hd.

its the good cheap lasting fix for the tensioners

there are however - many many ways to spend as much money as you want - no problem.

[hacksaw]

Thanks for all the info!!