Rusting M8 Breakout

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Rusting M8 Breakout

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Adrian1200CA
5 years ago

Though I would put this up and see anyone else who is having the same issue. Have rusty water leaking from the swing arm from a plug located where the yellow circle is. Happens after washing or riding in the rain. Harley so far haven't seen it in anyone else's but mine gets ridden a lot and washed a lot. When in goes in for its next service going to grill them about it again as not real happy with a $30k+ bike rusting.

brucefxdl
5 years ago

under warranty ? looks like a new swing arm needed.be a bit dissapointing all the same.

steelo
5 years ago

Seems you are not alone Adrian. Issue has been reported many times over the years. Just had a cursory read this on the CVO forum
HD wants you to drill another hole to let the water flow through. They mention rust not covered by warranty. I'd also be flooding it with fish oil.

Adrian1200CA
5 years ago

Quoting steelo on 04 Sep 2018 11:25 PM
Seems you are not alone Adrian. Issue has been reported many times over the years. Just had a cursory read this on the CVO forum
HD wants you to drill another hole to let the water flow through. They mention rust not covered by warranty. I'd also be flooding it with fish oil.

Thanks Steelo. I pumped a heap of WD40 in yesterday as that was all I had in the workshop. Unsure as to what purpose these holes serve and if the whole swing arm is hollow or just the tube parts.

Krash Kinkade
5 years ago

Quoting steelo on 04 Sep 2018 11:25 PM
Seems you are not alone Adrian. Issue has been reported many times over the years. Just had a cursory read this on the CVO forum
HD wants you to drill another hole to let the water flow through. They mention rust not covered by warranty. I'd also be flooding it with fish oil.

I remember old days all my Ute's needed fish oil, to stop them rusting. used to smell bad!!

Adrian1200CA
5 years ago

Quoting steelo on 04 Sep 2018 11:25 PM
Seems you are not alone Adrian. Issue has been reported many times over the years. Just had a cursory read this on the CVO forum
HD wants you to drill another hole to let the water flow through. They mention rust not covered by warranty. I'd also be flooding it with fish oil.

Quoting Krash Kinkade on 04 Sep 2018 11:38 PM
I remember old days all my Ute's needed fish oil, to stop them rusting. used to smell bad!!

It sure does smell bad. Used it a lot when I was a working on old cars to fix/stop the rust in the old cars. If they know its a problem why not treat them in the factory when they put them together, not hard! If the bike was a few years old I would say that's life but fuck me I only picked it up 2 months ago. My sporty is 4 years old done 72'000K's and not a spot of rust on it.

Krash Kinkade
5 years ago

Quoting steelo on 04 Sep 2018 11:25 PM
Seems you are not alone Adrian. Issue has been reported many times over the years. Just had a cursory read this on the CVO forum
HD wants you to drill another hole to let the water flow through. They mention rust not covered by warranty. I'd also be flooding it with fish oil.

Quoting Krash Kinkade on 04 Sep 2018 11:38 PM
I remember old days all my Ute's needed fish oil, to stop them rusting. used to smell bad!!

Quoting Adrian1200CA on 04 Sep 2018 11:49 PMedited: 04 Sep 2018 11:49 PM
It sure does smell bad. Used it a lot when I was a working on old cars to fix/stop the rust in the old cars. If they know its a problem why not treat them in the factory when they put them together, not hard! If the bike was a few years old I would say that's life but fuck me I only picked it up 2 months ago. My sporty is 4 years old done 72'000K's and not a spot of rust on it.

that's very true!!
keep at them!! it's not normal to see rust on anything these day's.
but two years back a guy up the road asked me to check out a Sportster low that was low K almost new a dealer had, I got down to check under the bike, & was surprised to see all bottom of frame rusty, I told sales person. they said, thats what happens with a low bike. I said I had an old Shovel from new that was lower than this bike, covered a lot of ground on it, & it never had any rust under the frame. but it would take a while to rust away still, get onto them!!

R2D2
5 years ago

Every Harley frame and swing arm ever made has done this .

paulybronco
5 years ago

Its kinda somewhere you hope you never have a failure with due to rust you cant see.

STEAMER
5 years ago

Quoting R2D2 on 05 Sep 2018 12:22 AM
Every Harley frame and swing arm ever made has done this .

My 2011 fxst , has Never done this. Ridden in rain all time. Even rode Perth to Melbourne in torential rain 90% of the way. And cant find any rust anywhere.
That swing arm must be Full of water to be leaking from top.

R2D2
5 years ago

Quoting R2D2 on 05 Sep 2018 12:22 AM
Every Harley frame and swing arm ever made has done this .

Quoting STEAMER on 05 Sep 2018 01:43 AM
My 2011 fxst , has Never done this. Ridden in rain all time. Even rode Perth to Melbourne in torential rain 90% of the way. And cant find any rust anywhere.
That swing arm must be Full of water to be leaking from top.

Your frame is sealed or the holes were above any fluid relief hole height.
Every HD ever built of mild steel construction has this mild rust scale inside the tubing.

carbon fibre
5 years ago

Quoting R2D2 on 05 Sep 2018 12:22 AM
Every Harley frame and swing arm ever made has done this .

Quoting STEAMER on 05 Sep 2018 01:43 AM
My 2011 fxst , has Never done this. Ridden in rain all time. Even rode Perth to Melbourne in torential rain 90% of the way. And cant find any rust anywhere.
That swing arm must be Full of water to be leaking from top.

Quoting R2D2 on 05 Sep 2018 02:39 AM
Your frame is sealed or the holes were above any fluid relief hole height.
Every HD ever built of mild steel construction has this mild rust scale inside the tubing.

Except Twin Cams, no rust in or on Twin Cams ever.

GTEEZ
5 years ago

Haven't noticed it on my '18 Breakout but will be having a closer look tonight! I have noticed the wire mesh on the air cleaner element rusting though. Looks like crap.

chriso
5 years ago

Quoting STEAMER on 05 Sep 2018 01:43 AM
My 2011 fxst , has Never done this. Ridden in rain all time. Even rode Perth to Melbourne in torential rain 90% of the way. And cant find any rust anywhere.
That swing arm must be Full of water to be leaking from top.

Quoting R2D2 on 05 Sep 2018 02:39 AM
Your frame is sealed or the holes were above any fluid relief hole height.
Every HD ever built of mild steel construction has this mild rust scale inside the tubing.

Quoting carbon fibre on 05 Sep 2018 03:10 AM
Except Twin Cams, no rust in or on Twin Cams ever.

lol

98fxstc
5 years ago

Don't waste your fish oil
just wait for the transmission oil to find a way in there

boxa
5 years ago

Mmmm buy a bike for 30 grand then get told to drill holes in it ,, Not Good

chriso
5 years ago

Quoting 98fxstc on 05 Sep 2018 06:36 AM
Don't waste your fish oil
just wait for the transmission oil to find a way in there

Bwahahahaha

Spook
5 years ago

Quoting STEAMER on 05 Sep 2018 01:43 AM
My 2011 fxst , has Never done this. Ridden in rain all time. Even rode Perth to Melbourne in torential rain 90% of the way. And cant find any rust anywhere.
That swing arm must be Full of water to be leaking from top.

Quoting R2D2 on 05 Sep 2018 02:39 AM
Your frame is sealed or the holes were above any fluid relief hole height.
Every HD ever built of mild steel construction has this mild rust scale inside the tubing.

Quoting carbon fibre on 05 Sep 2018 03:10 AM
Except Twin Cams, no rust in or on Twin Cams ever.

paulybronco
5 years ago

Quoting 98fxstc on 05 Sep 2018 06:36 AM
Don't waste your fish oil
just wait for the transmission oil to find a way in there

GOLD!!

chriso
5 years ago

I thought it fucking hilarious lol

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Rusting M8 Breakout

Rusting M8 Breakout

Adrian1200CA

brucefxdl

steelo

Adrian1200CA

Krash Kinkade

Adrian1200CA

Krash Kinkade

R2D2

paulybronco

STEAMER

R2D2

carbon fibre

GTEEZ

chriso

98fxstc

boxa

chriso

Spook

paulybronco

chriso