Cam bearings

Thanks to all for your input , Think I'll eather stay with the 26's , or find some stock cams & leave well enough alone , besides the ac, & exhaust ,26 cams the bike is stock , it pulled good & ran good with the stock cams , oh ya I did the EFI to carb swap & that part is good to go

have stock cams...............

or a 6 speed

6th gear is great on softails, big difference in riding comfort

RPM too high is like kirby said, gear related not cam related I'd
leave the 26's and oil pump alone if you have good oil pressure

What gear ratio is in the primary, stock softails had gears that resulted in
3.15 final drive and many folks changed them to end up with 3.37 for more
pull.

About the best way without having to change all pulleys is get a baker if you
have $2500 to drop or call Ultima and get a 6 speed for about $600 and swap the
internals, did that with my 124 it held up well considering the power I hit it with its a chinese baker clone but for the money it's the way to go.

Drops final ratio into high 2's something like 2.97 and is great on freeway or crusing at 65 and up.

First off redneck I ask if anyone had heard of this before ,I never have , nor could I find it in my service manual , thats why i ask here , if it need to be done I will change the bearings , & for the 6 speed I don't think my 03 E Glide needs one , it ran good at 75-80 for years , when i changed the cams i noticed the rpm went up almost 500 at the same speeds I ran before in 5 gear , now on my 94 softail I will think about the cheaped 6 spd , or swap sprockets , like I did on my shovel , & I brobke the forst oil pump gears , that how I got in this mess , changing oil pumps is time comsuming & a waste of money in gaskets & time is money :cussing:

thanks paul , thats how I broke the first set of gears , The second pump HD admitted they sold sold me the wrong pump & now the thired pump they say is right , I double check with other dealers around the contry & the pt # is right this time

All I can say it the cams have absolutely no difference in RPM at a given speed
in the engine, it doesn't matter if you have woods, andrews, SNS, Big Johnson, Harry Johnson, or Limp Johnson cams, the RPM at 70 is going to be the same RPM as stock

Why- that RPM at MPH is given constant based on the ratio of primary gears, trans gears and pulley to final drive pulley. So unless you changed something in the driveline the RPM at a given MPH will not be different.

now what you might be finding is you have more power and are getting
to that RPM faster, or that you ride harder because of the additional tq.

But whatever it is, it's not the cams...

As to changing oil pump, leave the cams in the cam plate, you won't need
bearings then as you haven't pressed them out, then install oil pump, put cams and plate back in, spin rear wheel in 5th a few times to let the pump center itself on the main shaft
then put the 4 pump bolts in last.

Don't snug the pump to the plate before installing ever.


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