Dip Stick

Anyone ever heard of the tranny dip stick breaking off and getting ground up in the tranny????

Heck no! My tranny doesn't have one. Did this happen to you, Fatboy?

no when my bro brought his tranny problem to an indy, the guy asked if his dip stick broke he said he's seen it often.

I meant Yes I do have one. But my posting "09 Tranny" is about my brothers Street Glide and the woe's he's going through right now. Wasn't his dip stick but it looks like a bearing based on the pieces he got from the oil.

Either way, not good . . .

upper and lower shifter return springs break quite often on the baggers . with heal and toe shifters . and get chewed up in the trany gears i got to tell ya i have never seen a dip stick break and get chew up ,

The springs might be my brothers problem. He's got 45,000 on an '09 Street Glide and his tranny started making noises. He used a magnet and pulled metal bits from it. Shop said to check dip stick supposedly that is a problem. His is fine. Thanks for the info. Even though yer a smarty pants!

Like they have all said.never heard of that before,keep posted we might learn something.

I replaced my shifter assembly with the baker replacement . its a pain in the a--. its eaiser to remove the trany and do it on a bench can be done in the bike i dont advise it . chances are he nicked a couple of teeth on the gears . i dont know why the motor company uses the hardend springs they break in half . i dont use the heal toe shifter my self i find it to be a pain to lift my heal but maybe the guy that owned it had a heavy foot on the shifter . guys tend to pound down on the shifter and the hardend spring breaks . i got lucky and mine went strait threw and was on the magnet. and the lower one had not broke yet. you can find the replacement baker shifter assembly in the jp catalog not expensive . not an easy job ,

Steve, I'm pretty sure it's one of the input shafts bearings,'Pieces look like bearing cage material. will find out Wed. when it gets opened up. Bro

If you look in Harleys catalog you can git a whole SE tranny. Like 2500.00 for the whole tranny.
I'd hate to put it in. YOu got to take the swingarm l00se among other things to put it in.
Don't think I would want a job that big.
I've gotten Lazy.

Yeah Cardboard I'm gettin' lazy too. 'Havin' my indy do the job ,plus tires.plus drive belt all together. 46 K on her in 2 and ahalf yrs. Get it all done at once,Bite the bullet. about 12-14 hundred, could be worse.

Yeah,I've read about it happening on some other Forums...never happened to me or anyone else I know,but I guess it does happen occasionally...