Wilson when you say chassis comfort kit do you mean the NVH mounting for the bevel box? If you do you should not be charged for it as the replacement chassis comes with that whether you want it or not. Its been standard fit on new builds for well over a year now & replacement chassis are to the current spec.If you are talking of the steering comfort kit that would be chargeable.
I bought a Harley rectifier on ebay from US 2 years ago & seem. to think it was around £80 delivered.
Tim
Tim,
It was the steering comfort kit I was referring to. The one which alters the steering link coming from the rack and pinion to be nearer to parallel to the top wishbone angle. This is done by raising the attachment point of the steering link to the Ackerman arm and then bracing this from the top front upright ball joint. Where I live in France, tree root encroachment into the edges of the road is very common. This together with narrow roads and 8 wheel ballast/gravel truck drivers on piece work rates, made the excessive bump steer of my 2012 M3W, pretty hazardous. It was improved a lot by swapping from the cheap and nasty Avon sidecar tyres to the excellent Excelsior Competition H tyres (very similar to Blockleys but seemingly not quite as prone to flat spots) and hopefully the steering comfort kit will be another big improvement.
There seem to be various (Chinese?) makers of the Harley Rectifier/Regulator. I have opted to buy the one Amazon France sell, so that if it dies in short order, like the S&S ones often do, I can get it replaced free. The Chinese copy ones look to have neater wiring than the original Harley version, with a coiled flexy cable. The only thing I am a bit concerned over is that they mount at only two points. I am concerned that the regulator will wobble around a lot compared with 4 point fixing S&S model. I do have a bag of various metallastic mounting bobbins at my French house and I may change from the small ones used as standard, to some 3cm diameter slightly waisted bobbins I have, to make the mounting more stable. The alternative is to mount the Harley regulator rigidly on a metal plate and drill 4 holes in that, to use the original 4 mounting bobbins.
The chassis/bevel box needed a silentbloc bush kit for mounting. Unknown to the French dealer and their service agent, this kit is not supplied as standard with the replacement chassis (as it should be) and has to be ordered as an extra item. Even then the bush kit arrived without the new and required fixing bolts and these had to be ordered again, as a number of separate items. All seemingly designed to frustrate and slow down the chassis replacement. If it was still sold in France (it isn't), I would seriously consider selling the M3W and buying a Polaris Slingshot. A local friend in France has one and it is beautifully built compared with the M3W, albeit nothing like as pretty.
Wilson
