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Hi all,

I'm having my Bandit 1250 rims sandblasted and powder coated (old finish was not in good condition).

The powder coater I found recommended a sandblasting business and they did the job for me. Despite specifically asking him not to blast any of the machined surfaces, he only taped up the bearing cavities, but sandblasted the surface against which the brake discs are mounted (arghhhh!). I asked him what happened and he said that this is the way they usually do it and that I won't have any trouble with it.

So my question to the brains-trust is this: will it give me any trouble?

The powder coater is not quite finished with them yet. They confirmed that it should not have been blasted and that they could put the base coat onto these surfaces to 'even them out'. But I told...

Just picked up a 2006 Dyna FXDI. Starts and accelerates great but there is a hitch you feel when you keep the throttle steady. The idle drops when the bike is warm and stalls. Error codes P0108, P0374 and P1356 come up. Plugs are light grey. It has a K & N replacement filter and Vance & Hines 2 into 1 with a factory ECM. Any ideas?

Hey new to the forum.
Question: is there any way to get around the engine capacity restrictions for your RE's?
It says 660mL, however, I have a great opportunity to get something larger. Wondering if there is any bullshit way to get around this restriction?

I hope you guys can help me, maybe somebody has "run into" this before.
I bought a stock Harley-Davidson® Premium Oil Cooler Kit | '99-'06 Touring - part
#26082-05C, for my 2006 FLHTCI, E;ectra-Glide Classic. I have it all assembled and am ready to finish up and put the oil filter on it, but when I look at the new adapter, where the filter screws in, it doesn't look right.

The black part on the adapter is part of the adapter and not the gasket. The gasket is not sticking out anywhere, I believe it is installed properly. On the very left of the black "slot" on the adapter is a "passage" where oil can flow, but it looks pretty small. I would expect that that whole slot would be open for oil to flow, but only the very left portion of it is open, though the whole slot in about 1/4" deep...

Hello my 2006 street glide will stall when warm at idle. I've put the cvp carb kit in it. I used the 48 pilot jet and the 190 main, and replaced the slide with one theirs. My idle screw is out about 2 turns, I have no back fires when given throttle. I have replaced the intake seals once already to try to fix this problem with my old tune. Nothing changed. Any help would be great!