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Service Schedule beyond 80,000km

  • miketl
    miketl
    4 years ago
    G'Day All,

    My 2012 Sportster Super Low is near its 104,000km Service. The manual service schedule only goes to 80,000km. Just recently on atrip to Shoalhaven Heads the bottom oil hose developed a Crack, but with a soft metal bandage (Turkish delight wrapper held on by cable ties) I was able to get back to Tassie and have the hose replaced. As there are four hoses have ordered the others as I reasoned that if one has gone perhaps the others aren't too far off.
    Anyway, this experience got me thinking that there should be different service schedule beyond 80,000km for parts to check for wear/replaced rather than just start at the beginning.
    If any members can point me in the direction of such a maintenance chart/schedule I'd be very grateful.  Of course I realise that parts will not necessarily wear our at an exact "mileage" but it would be helpful to be alerted as to what to have inspected before a failure.
    Thanks,  Michael
  • tussuck
    tussuck
    4 years ago
    I'm in the same boat...110,000km on the 09 883L and struggling to find a good or factory recommendation.  I'm following this from the HD SIP Site.
    Plug your VIN into the link below and download the service manual for your bike (its free) and in there is the service checklist.
    https://serviceinfo.harley-davidson.com/sip/vehicle/lookupForm

    I tried to upload a spreadsheet with the checklist list in it but its not working very well.
  • miketl
    miketl
    4 years ago
    Quoting tussuck on 27 Nov 2019 07:36 AM

    I'm in the same boat...110,000km on the 09 883L and struggling to find a good or factory recommendation.  I'm following this from the HD SIP Site.

    Plug your VIN into the link below and download the service manual for your bike (its free) and in there is the service checklist.
    https://serviceinfo.harley-davidson.com/sip/vehicle/lookupForm

    I tried to upload a spreadsheet with the checklist list in it but its not working very well.

    Hey, thanks for the link. Yes, I followed it and also found that it petered out at 48,000km. Access to the manual will still be very helpful though.
  • miketl
    miketl
    4 years ago
    Taah for the extended list for checking, also your hint to just keep the oil hoses under surveillance and not replace them until signs of wear.  Yes have already had to replace throttle cable due to a damaged guide due to dropping it doing a slow speed U-turn on a hill  :o(
  • steelo
    steelo
    4 years ago
    On my soft tail at 105k cam chain tensioners almost worn through. Primary chain tensioner ok. Belt ok. Told rear rotor needs replacement soon. Prob with new rear tyre. 
    All in all, been cheap and simple to run with 5k oil changes and check up. Good luck with your bike. There’s a sense of satisfaction having a bike in good mechanical order which has been well and truly ridden. 
  • paulybronco
    paulybronco
    4 years ago
    Quoting miketl on 27 Nov 2019 06:06 AM

    G'Day All,

    My 2012 Sportster Super Low is near its 104,000km Service. The manual service schedule only goes to 80,000km. Just recently on atrip to Shoalhaven Heads the bottom oil hose developed a Crack, but with a soft metal bandage (Turkish delight wrapper held on by cable ties) I was able to get back to Tassie and have the hose replaced. As there are four hoses have ordered the others as I reasoned that if one has gone perhaps the others aren't too far off.
    Anyway, this experience got me thinking that there should be different service schedule beyond 80,000km for parts to check for wear/replaced rather than just start at the beginning.
    If any members can point me in the direction of such a maintenance chart/schedule I'd be very grateful.  Of course I realise that parts will not necessarily wear our at an exact "mileage" but it would be helpful to be alerted as to what to have inspected before a failure.
    Thanks,  Michael

    Thinking HD dont dont think their products go that far....lol
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