Now that is good old school tool making. never mind what some might think, that tool is perfection... i will be making that for sure....

Friend, you saved my bacon ! I was able to copy your tool and complete my tensioners! Thanks buddy!!

Thank you, Little Bill - this was just what I needed. My full respect to your ingenuity!!

man im gonna make me a tool tomorrow thanks Bill. To heck with the tensioner upgrade, this is just the kind of things I look for

Awesome little Bill, thanks for sharing your ingenuity, gotta go and make one myself now

Thank U 4 the Excellent Idea Brother! This will be my next government job at work lol :)

Nice video, I watched it over and over and then today I made one for myself. Awesome. Job! I,m working on making a video to post here on youtube too... Its definetly alittle more difficult getting it back on then it is getting it off... Also you have to be carefull not to over stretck the spring especially when putting it back on... But it does work awesome...

Bill , your the MAN! thanks for sharing

That's genius bro. Outstanding I've never seen that before I've been dealing with sweatin how I'm going to have to deal with those tentioners. I bought an06 fatboy last summer bike seems to be in great shape has 18500 miles on it now guess I better get to checking what kind of shape their in .

Buy a small arbor press at Harbor Freight for $50 to press cams in and out . It’ll come in handy in the future anyway. Change bearings and cam chain while you’re in there. May as well do a good job.

Thats a really cool idea.

great video

Dude your a genious! Thank you.

Thanks Amigo. All considered, this is the best solution for me. BTW, Fine video.

Out Freaking Standing Little Bill.... I just had my tensioner (Front) break up and was not wanting to have to pull the cams out of the plate... You gadget needs to be in the Harley Tool Chest...

Good to see a man who can think on his feet. You should patent that and make them for sale. Personally for me, Evos till death!

I'm sure a lot of TC owners (like me) would be interested in a tool like that. And a lot of service managers will hate it unless they have one.

You should make this video longer and show the extraction of the cam plate? 3:40 minutes, com'on Brother! I love the info. Show us how to make the tool! That would be awesome video!!

Very nice!

Love the tool-you need to pattern that , brother!!!!!!!!!!!!! fuckin Genuis!!!!!!!!!

I simply cut the spring on the tensioner under a towel then pulled it off. I need either a press to change the chain or just this wrench to put a new tensioner on. I bought a chain so I thought I would replace the old one.

That tool is way to cool...

I need that tool!

ZIPPER978: H-D, could have chosen to retain Metal Gears to operate the two cams, as they used to do, in all previous, big Twin single cam engines, prior to introducing the TC engine in '99 and eliminated the need to replace PLASTIC tensioners in the first place. But, they chose to create more charges for labor and parts, instead by introducing, silent chain drives and tensioner pads.

Would you be willing to make and sell another tool like this. I would be interested.

thanks for this video bill! your the 1st person that I've seen to make one of these! I wonder why Harley couldn't figure this out & sell it as one of their specialty tools?

Oh yes, very clever.

Does anyone know where you can purchase a tool like this???

Ok this is awesome. I will buy one from you if you are making them. Let me know.... otherwise I need to build one soon because I have two twin cams to change the tensioners on right away,

how much would love to have one

I would love to buy this tool from you please let me know

I'm proud of your tool but show more of the replacement work

Are you selling this tool?

What happens if you take the tensioners out and throw them away? A 350 chevy motor doesn't have a tensioner. The drive side of the cam chain should stay tight when the motor is running. Anybody ever done this?

Yes life is Grand! This guy is awesome. I'm going to run out and buy a new Harley and a bed frame so I can make this repair. I'll bet his garage is full of well organized projects, WD-40, duct tape, 8-track tapes, and cold beer. He could build a fusion reactor out of a toaster.

Is anyone making them to sell?

Hello you can find this end seend. I Will pay.

better then zebra vs lion, or watching the dummy elvisandmick fuck up his bike

These silent chain also stretch and affect valve/cam timing. Also, the flywheel assembly is only pressed together on all TWIN CAM engines, produced from 1999 to the present, and will twist out of true. The only solution to that problem is to tear the engine apart and take the flywheel assembly to a performance specialty shop to tear it down, check the connecting rods for out of roundness and have them re-honed and replace the bearings with oversized bearings to compensate, re-assembly the flywheel after the components are balanced, then have it dynamically trued on a truing stand and TIG-weld the crankpin to keep the flywheel from twisting out of true again and make sure the output and pinion shaft run out is at 0.001" or less. Once a stock flywheel is out of true, and the shaft run out hits, 0.003' as it "wobbles" with each revolution and miles on the engine, damage to the bushings, bearings, oil pump rotor, begins and just accelerates to the point where the engine self-destructs. TWINKIES also run extremely hot, as in heat, generation, due to the inadequate, stock oil pump what only puts out 3-8 psi at idle, close to zero oil pressure and so these engines have been known to catch a rider's pants legs on fire and the rider suffers, 2nd and 3rd degree burns.