Harley Compensator Failures - How to Avoid Replacing It TWICE! - Baxters Garage - Kevin Baxter 

I am glad that you installed a Darkhorse crankshaft and a manowar compensator in my build!!!

I usually find misplaced tools after I buy replacement parts. Thanks Kevin!

A very smart man ,he really knows what he is doing

There's so many reasons I love your channel. The next time I'm in the States I'll happily spend hours looking for you missing box of bits just so I can look around your shop with your approval. The needle wiggle triggered me a bit. A radiused indent in your mushroom of just greater radius than the shaft being measured would reduce it, assuming it would stay aligned and wouldn't spin... Love your work.

Kevin great video as usual... Ok, so you forgot the color of the box you put the tip in. You brain is looking for a brown box and it probably in the red box. You could solve this by buying a new set but dont open it as soon as you get it you'll find the old ones. Then you can return the new one. You can thank me later! 😅

Great video Kevin. I trust no one else with my build!

Good luck on your search! After a fire and a hurricane in 2018 I’m still searching! Thanks for that interesting and helpful video.

Thanks for sharing. Its good to see someone who really knows. So many shade tree fixers that claim to know whom don’t.

Thanks sir for another great and informative video & DIY tip.

Great info as always. Thank you sir!

Great to see you Kevin

You are truly a master!

Good stuff coach 👍

Great info Kevin 👍🏻🇦🇺

Good information Kevin 👍

Good Video! I just finished, Programming, setting up and running a CNC Lathe, then on to the Mill with the parts. Isn't machining fun!, especially when you enjoy what you're doing. Of course getting paid helps too.

Awesome content!

For those of the metric persuasion, a 4.5mm drill bit is the same as a #16.

You are The Man! Should I ever purchase an M8, its going straight to you for a stage 2 skunkworks full treatment.

Great information, thank you. I could have used that info last week😂

Mitch is here! Where there's a will, there's a way👍🤠

Thank you

Kevin, those indicator tips are in that red Sterrett flip top box bottom left side drawer of the Machinist top box... Prolly right where you put it last... 🙄

Alrighty, that's great info Mr. Baxter. However, what are our options when the run out is too great ?

Good info

Hey Kevin, Do you know if the 2024 CVOs are using that comp. with that crappy ramp that fractures or did they upgrade to something else, just curious. btw,..your videos are the best, no annoying music or subscribe pop-ups, just a master mechanic doing what he does best.

Kevin...what a decent guy and great show. I asked you a question earlier about installing a timing gear set... There is one question I wanted to ask you. In case you talk me out of installing a gear set, and stick with new pads.....are there tensioners available for new pads that put less pressure on the chain? Since the major complaint seems to be that the excessive fast wear on the pads is primarily caused by to heavy pressure by the spring on the tensioner....I gotta think some company came out with a new type that has lighter tension or pressure to the pads. Any info ??? Thanks

I have a 2015 cop bike that had 1800 miles on it when i bought it. it was only used at a yearly rodeo at the dealer. it was mint. but every so often i would get hard starts. I rebuilt the starter thinking that was what it was. Then it came back several hundred miles later. I was going to do cams anyway so went with darkhorse compensator and an evolution stage one clutch. It has been AWESOME for several thousand miles. The only thing is that there is a minor pulsing if you hold throttle at 2800 rpm. barely noticeable and the benefits FAR out weight that little quirk. I've read that many users of the darkhorse comp experience the same thing.

Can you provide the info on the pieces you use to mount to the dial indicator to the bike? I find numerous setups I can purchase for the pinion side, just don’t know what I would need in sprocket side. Thanks and enjoy all your videos

Would you consider a Part 2 covering a late model with roller bearings on sprocket drive side. Where you load the shaft. Thanks

I hate moving. Starret instruments are the absolute best. I hope you find them soon. You will find them in the last place you look.

Kevin you know anything about what super chargers do vs turbo chargers for engine life

As a machinist myself, what is the purpose of a compensator? It compensates for the pulses of the v twin engine to prevent damage to the transmission. I find that people who lug their engine at low speed in the wrong higher gear, places far more stress on the ramp of the cam of the compensator and increases wear on those ramps as well as the other moving parts. That’s what I saw on my used 15 Ultra with 17k miles on the OD when I bought it. That clatter clatter from the primary even at idle or start up, word out compensator. The compensator was wore out and I replaced it with a HD compensator and have had zero problems. I don’t lug my engine in the wrong gear at slow speed and I ride with higher rpm’s in lower gears. People who have done away with compensators altogether and run a belt drive, don’t experience these problems either. .030 of run out seems a bit out of spec but I really don’t know what HD requires.

Thier in the box marked "Janitorial Supplies". I think I saw it upstairs in the storage area just to the left.

I just moved my shop as well and man I’m going through the same process of trying to find things lol pray for us!

Star Racing Compensator Ramp replacement part w/ matching spline. Measure runout for sure.

Hey, Kevin,, I got a 018 flfbs, wide frame, like a breakout, the compansator, has a plastic oil slinger, on the end of the bolt, snaps into the retaining nut,, does it really need that,, I just replaced the ramp, broke in 3 places

I believe the "tips" on your dial indicators are called anvils. 😉👍🇦🇺

What do you think about the BDL compensator?

Hey Kevin. Will you be at Bike Week. Daytona?

What about doing a open belt bdl to get rid of compositor. Is that a good solution?

Great. As to finding your tips? Somewhere. In this house. There is a RED FOUR FOOT level.....been missing for years...Sure hope I did not close it up in a wall! 🤣

Most that I've seen just came loose. Easy fix.

Just out of curiosity. Is there anything concentric on an old ironhead xl engine ? Lol

Is there a upgrade compansator for the wide frame , harley. Breakout. And Fatboy,, have 240 rear tire,

Kevin, Was your Starrett tip set a circle with roughly a dozen tips that screwed in? If yes, I may have that in my retired machinist tools. I'll ship it to you free of charge if you do not find your set.

I think you need some skunk water to help ya find em’. Hopefully I’ll be seeing ya soon. Shine on!!

Don't you think Harley should do a solid 45-degree crank with side by side connecting rods on babbitt bearings. They would save money on runout and assembly , and warranty work?

When I looked through the toolbox I inherited, I said, what's this,lol Thanks for the info

Maybe I'm just being 'Mr Obvious,' But for all the talk about "precision," in the alignment of crank,s shafts, sprockets and other important parts, that would be a high priority at the time of construction, and not after it's come apart and needs to be rebuilt. Quality, craftmanship and workmanship, seem to all be lost causes with HD. The ultimate bike, is one that can drive down the road and make it from A to B, without needing major surgery after the trip. If I was a rich man and wanted the ultimate bike, I would buy it new and then let Kevin have it, to reconstruct the bike from scratch, from the bottom up. And build a bike that should be the standard from the manufacturer. A bike done right!

I didn’t need to replace compensator but I did a 131 build so I put a dark horse compensator on it. I have had no problems and mine is quiet but I hear lots of people slamming the dark horse saying that it’s loud. Have you heard anything like this?

I'm thinking that the shaft could get bent when torquing the bolt to 175 lbs... just now thinking this and now I want to check the run out.

My 2001 has 51,000 making noise sounds like compensator not sure, taken a part ,how can I look at compensator maybe look if it's worn out.

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I'll be happy to run by your old shop in Winder and look outside IF you want me to.... ;-)

Kevin i ride a 1990 evo softail im thinking of a1.5 belt drive primary enclosed any real advantages other than cool factor anyone chime in thanks

I think your indicator box is in the same safe space I have alot things in😂

Couldn't you use a round head machine screw or do they not make a screw with the same threads?

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Heck ya 😁👍👍👍

Bonjour Kevin un petit bonjour de la France french riviera je vais installer un compensateur darck horse sur mon dyna street bob 96ci de 2011 il ce monte directement devant le rotor d origine je n ai pas a démonter celui ci ? merci pour vos video et pour votre reponse desole je ne parle pas Anglais a bientôt bonne journée

Where are you located?

Look under your truck seat

I think I saw it over in the corner no wait my wife moved it. Oh never mind.😂😂

Bet it's a brown wood box, keep looking, maybe it will show up.

There's always that one guy! I'm not seeing .001" runout? Maybe .004"-.005"? I'm probably wrong but can't see why.

Kevin, why don't you have your videos on Duck Duck Go?

You still in Ga??? This vid says Nashvegas???

Anyone else jumped off his chair when the lathe kicked in?

My darkhorse sounds like a bag of marbles rolling around. Hate it!! Think I'm going to go back to screaming eagle.

I wish Harley would just offset the cylinders so they could run a one piece crank with the rods side by side, would solve so many issues

Your tips were accidentally put into a box that was marked "kitchen". They got put on a shelf with some pots and pans. 🤣🤣🤣

The tips are stashed in a deep dark dank dungeon recess of your tool box ….. 😆 Doesn’t matter where you start to look ….. They will be in the very last place you look ….

I'll bet you put it some place secure that you would not forget....

the only way to find the old set is to buy a new set

Check your personal office desk boxes.

last time i seen them they was in your tool box just kidding dont have clue where there at

What? No snappy intro? Didn't you get the new version?

bet you found it right after the video lol

It will be in the last place you look !

you know im a little pissed off at you. now i go around saying " isnt that summping".

Gotten to old

Get rid of it and use a fixed gear problem solved forever.

Your sumping else Kevin😂🫡🇦🇺

Motors are electric.