My 05 Road King Custom has developed a vibration which is mainly noticable after everything gets hot.

The vibration has been noticable for a while, but I figured with 42K  on it, it might just be a normal settling & bedding thing.

So far my "Y" piece on the rear cylinder exhaust pipe & bracket have cracked & broken. I was told this is a common problem by a HD dealer, why hasn't there been a recall???

The Saddlebag support bracket (left side) has broken in two.Finally the Indicator bar under the Taillight has vibrated loose.

I thought the days of Harleys shaking themselves to death were long gone.

I notice when at speed on the road, if I pull the clutch in & allow the bike to idle, the vibration goes away, let the clutch out & it returns. Making me think, it's got to be engine/gearbox related.

I originally thought it may have been tyre/road surface related.

Has anybody else had similar problems? Is it engine internal problem? How hard is it to fix? Finally do I need a bank loan to finance it?

Any advice is better than none.

Cheers, Strawb

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Have a read through this site there might some answers in there for you. But it might scare you as well. I hope this helps you out.

Maybe time to check pinion runout, you need to eventually check cam tensioners anyway. Excessive runout will give you bad vibration, trash the oil pump & wreck bearing. Hope it works out for you and its a relative easy fix.