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That goofy chain tensioner got me so worked up I took another picture of it.  A good design principle:  Covers suck.  When absolutely needed for oil retention or safety or noise reduction they make sense.  It never makes sense to put machinery in a cover.  Then it is not a cover, it's some hybrid monster.  The Panhead was great design-- the valve mechanism all bolted down solid with a tin cover to keep the oil in and the dirt out.  Then the Sportsters and the Shovelhead with the rocker box being both a cover and a mechanism.  The valve geometry goes all over the place with different gasket thickness and the gaskets wear out from the forces applied to them.  It also makes things noisier.  The Evo rocker kludge-fest is a joke.  The 2-cam still has a whole heap a pieces, but at least the rockers don't run in them.  (This was done for noise, not good design.)  The Sportsters primary cover is really a combined chain tensioner and clutch release that is incidentally a cover too.  At least it's not a starter bearing support like in the 70s and 80s.  Pathetic.  Where's my '62?
I know you're getting tired of this view but I couldn't resist a shot showing how the chain tensioner interferes with the kickstand bracket.  Yup, it won't thread out any further.  Hope you remember to put it on before you mount the primary.  I guess the third assistant supplemental draftsman in the engine department reporting to Mr. So-and-So didn't have enough meetings or write enough memos to the 2nd assistant draftsman in the frame department reporting to Mr. Such-and-Such.  See what too much money will do?  They should stick to tee shirts and get out of machinery altogether.  It would be a public service.
OK, you can start to giggle now because you know the cover is not going to come off yet.  Unlike the 1970 to 1983 Iron Sportsters, the clutch mechanism has to come out of the evo sportster to get the primary off.  This is progress?  Note I just gave a couple taps with a soft mallet.  I did not wedge a screwdriver in between the cover and the case which will cause an oil leak.  Then the meth freaks will silicone the gasket.  Then the silicone will sqwoudge out and fall into the primary.  Then the little pieces will work their way into the transmission.  Then they will get in the roller bearings.  Then the whole tranny and rear wheel will seize at 80 miles and hour on a mountain road.  Ahh, darwinism.
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