They make a gearless breather with reed valves! Make sure end play check with non silicone gasket! Also needle bearings move freely after installing!

There is nothing wrong with the plastic breather gear. In many cases it can save the breather gear bore by allowing metal particles to gouge out the breather gear and not the bore itself. Did you bother to see if the cam gear that came on your EV27 was the proper size for your breather and pinion gear? Sorry if you did and I missed it... common problem with aftermarket cams... coming with a gear too big... too big and it can gall your other gears up and damage some teeth. Good vid either way.

The EVO Harley-Davidson engine was state of art to this day. That’s the main reason Harley-Davidson went back to it in 2017 dam near. Chains and tentioners you cannot get to and replace was dumb.

Nice camera work at the beginning

My 1340 97 lifter twisted an scored my cam to hell. I bought all new lifters, adjustable push rods, rocker arms, cam I got the Andrew's 27 cam . Didn't put together yet never done this type of stuff I heard you say something about the backlash an washer.. could use advice. Ohh and changed tappet block cause the back one broke near the bottom

I think my evo 80" on my 93' FXLR has at least one bad cam follower so if I'm going to replace them I may as well check the cam and bearings as well as that breather gear. I came here to find out how to set the valve timing as most youtube videos are either on twin cams or leave that part out .

what size shim did you end up using for the metal breather gear

Hey Joe beautiful bike very clean professional, hey I got a little problem I have a 2005 Fatboy 95-in motor My spark plug holes, had time certs installed for the spark plugs because they were loose. now one of the serts came out on the front jug. The hole is already bored to 14 mm to accept another cert. but it's going to be the same size, do you think if I put loctite it will grab and stay? I am a backyard mechanic, should I give this to the pros? Thank you in advance, Rich

Thank you for posting this video. I have a 96 FLHT that has spun the cam bearing on the case. So I have to replace it. HD wanted to have me buy a new rebuilt engine for $4000 bucks but I can't afford that. Is there a way to repair the case so the bearing won't spin? I understand where the bearing fits has a couple of small gouges/ scratches in it so HD wouldn't fix it because they said they couldn't warrentee it because the bearing race might spin again. Thanks for any info you can give me.

Ok,did you use a cone gasket before checking cam end play?

go on eBay for the metal breather gear..I got one for $36.94 ..free ship.find your spacers too..s&s has a kit gear n spacers less than $90.00..her call man.

where did you get that breather gear,been looking all over.how do you buy at mid-west.

I know this is an old vid but something tells me you're going to or already discovered having a gear lash issue. It's gonna get noisy in there- real noisy... like the sound of lifters going bad. You were supposed to either swap the pinion to match the teeth depth and spacing of the cam gear or you were supposed to press out the andrews gear and press the stock gear on the andrews camshaft. You didn't hurt anything but the valve train is gonna squeal. anyway- ride safe.

when you instill a cam on this style motor. do you have be on TDC . using that TDC marker on the other side ??? and i see you lining up those 3 gears i know how to do that. but what i need to know is can you line up those 3 gears and not be correct on TDC . is what i am asking ??? like being 180 deg off ???

just think if you could hear this,,great but I cant hear.

Ev 27cam suck why not Ev3

I gave this video a thumbs down, only because of the sound quality. Could not hear what you were saying even with volume turned up on my cell. Other than that the video is good.