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    New belt issues any one?

    I put a new one on at the start of the summer and it was really freakin' tight, but everything turned and operated properly so I was happy if the bike feels like it's solid and riding well still, you're fine the belts do take a while to wear-in to the teeth on the sprockets
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    Front fork seal leaking... home project??

    you can do everything involved in fork seal replacements in your garage pretty easily with a floor jack, rear wheel stand, and a bunch of basic hand tools
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    Anyone rebuilt a buell engine?

    http://www.buellxb.com/Buell-XB-Forum/Buell-Firebolt-XB12-XB9/XB12R-Rebuilding-Story-and-Customization are you saying the new roller-bearing you put in that sits in that race on the right-hand case half is giving you trouble? there are color codes that should give you near-perfect fits or what...
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    In Buell market, any "lemon" years?

    not only if you're bouncing the rev limiter, any time you're going over 5k RPMs is hurting the old crank-pin I have a couple crank-pins with spaulding and failed bearings, only one of them saw a rev limiter bounce one time another note on the belts: the old belts put on bikes before 2009 (I...
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    put some miles on it

    the narrow-band O2 does OK, replacing it every couple years helps it stay on edge the race ECM does a great job with all kinds of systems stuck on the end, not perfect or anything but it helps work things out and it learns a little more aggressively there is no wide-band O2 ECM for these...
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    In Buell market, any "lemon" years?

    there was never anything wrong with the early race ECMs I've run across, and a couple have changed my hands under my ownership and I've spoken with a couple more people with 12s with them on it as well I meant XB9's as in all XB9 models from 2003, sorry I missed the punctuation 2008 1125R's...
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    What size socket to remove front sprocket?

    between 2 1/16 and 2 3/16 I don't know the actual size, I own a huge set that goes up to nearly 3 inches and has a couple dozen sockets in it so I never bother to pay attention it requires a huge amount of force to remove that nut, and the rust doesn't hurt it there if you're concerned, just...
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    In Buell market, any "lemon" years?

    BUELL XB MODELS 03 XB9s were the ONLY Buell with the thinner belt, everything else has the same belt drive they have today in 2008 they upped the crank-pin from 1.25 to 1.5 inches, increases longevity of the engine greatly 07 and later I believe has dual O2 sensors and upgraded ECM/Timing...
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    buell xb12scg engine swap????

    it should be plug-and-play the self-adjusting timing should be sending the same response to the ECM for firing off the plugs as the manually adjusted one as long as the plugs mate, you're fine I believe all post 07 have dual O2 sensors, in 2008 the bigger crank pin was released and with it...
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    Passenger Peg Ball Bearing

    the ball in the peg is used to make the peg more difficult to move, it doesn't provide any bearing characteristics at all and to quite the contrary creates a fair amount of friction and wear between the surfaces I think it's basically a 1/4" ball bearing. You can go without it, the peg will...
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    buell xb12scg engine swap????

    you can use a new engine and just put your old headers on it to take care of the ECM deal all of the motor mounts match up across all years of XBs, the heads, jugs, and back end of the cases externally never changed if you got a new model engine you would also need to get the oil lines for it...
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    Dent b-gone!

    that sure is one way to do it, bonus points to you for creativity and raw solution brute forcing haha
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    overfilled oil?

    overfilling can do funny things with the pressure in the various lines and jets throughout the engine, but generally a small overfill will do no damage the 2008 and later model years have larger oil lines in the cases and a different pump, they are a fair bit more resistant to oil related...
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    Needing to add oil

    there was another thread about this... it's even still in the top 10 still as I post this reply http://www.buellxb.com/Buell-XB-Forum/Buell-Lightning-XB12S-XB12Ss-CityX-XB12Scg/Adding-oil---is-this-normal running a bit low on oil will not damage the engine, until you see the low pressure oil...
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    Adding oil - is this normal?

    yes, that is even good these bikes (I mean any air-cooled Harley engine, so revolution excluded and 1125 excluded) typically burn a half quart over 4500 miles, much more if the valve-train is worn or a seal is even a little rough anywhere you're in good shape, your engine is tight :)
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    cool member challenge idea

    I'm in Boston, MA for the summer and can pass it along on my antique Honda, but my Buell is still in Milwaukee I can get anywhere from Maine to MD, or Maine to PA somewhere
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    Engine Sprocket Nut won't come off

    ah, usually to get that damned thing off I've taken it down to my local Peterbuild because I have a buddy who is a heavy diesel mechanic there and we bring out the 1100 ft/lbs impact to spin it off that nut gets seized on there really tightly since you're splitting the cases anyway, you'll be...
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    Engine Sprocket Nut won't come off

    engine sprocket may mean three things based on your lack of precise wording: primary sprocket on crankshaft nut (~200 ft lbs torque, I believe RH thread) clutch basket nut (~80 ft lbs torque, I believe LH thread) transmission drive sprocket nut (very large nut, LH thread, roughly 240 ft lbs of...
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    Piston Pin bushing

    I don't believe the pistons pins have any bushings between them, and if you mean the bushing at the end of the connecting rod you're out of luck Harley does not sell the various pieces of the flywheel and connecting rods separate, so if you wanted to replace the busing in the end there that the...
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    differences between 07 & 08 Lightnings ?

    08 got the updated crank pin, so 08 and later are running a 1.5 inch crank pin instead of the 1.25 inch crank pin present in all previous Buell motorcycles under H-D production the 1.25 crank pin is known to die and fail much faster than the 1.5 inch the 07 models were the first with the...
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