How To Harley Davidson Heel-Toe Shifter Fix.

[@gregboutwell]

Mine just fell yesterday. Getting the cutting wheel out today! Thanks for the tip!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to Help, Easy Fix. Just Be careful when cutting your shifter. Thank you for your Sub Greg. Let us know how this works out. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@babybugspaw7085]

Rocco, your calmness or demeanor about you is one I admire, you’re too cool! I enjoy your explanations. Keep doing HD’s videos.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Thank you for your kind words and all your support. Ride safe and have a great day, any questions just ask.,

[@krzysiekkowalski2778]

Man. you are great. Love the videos. I own RK FLHRC 2002. Your tips help a lot. Just yesterday I fixed the inner shifter. It was not as loose as yours but still sooner or later I could expect same problems. the only problem I had was my cutting wheel is too thick - and I used a sand paper to take off at least some of the gap. but probably once I buy the proper cutting wheel will go through the exercise again to make sure the shifters will not ware off. Thanks a milion again for your work

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to Help, Thank you for your kind words and Your Sub. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@carlgilmore9821]

Hey that's a really good tip Rocco. I've heard about this being a problem, and advice to check it regularly, but never a solution like you just showed. Great! Thanks!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to Helps. Any questions just ask. Thank you for your Sub Carl. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@daniellshine7971]

Nice work Rocco . Great deductions in out of the box thinking is part of your skill ......

[@TwoWheelRocco]

You the man.....Dan. Thank you for your kind words.

[@sergelee6448]

U made my day,thanks a lot 4sharing ur experience and knowledge, I don't know what 2say,I was fighting with it 4 the past of 2 months,THANKS GOD BLESS MY BROTHER 🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 , I forgot 2mention that 2fix mine I did add Aluminum paper (the one that my Wife use in the kitchen)😂😂😂😂

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy all went well. Thank you for watching and your support Service. Serge. Ride safe and have a great day. Thank you for your kind words.

[@waxxx6]

Mine came off today on a ride with my Wife. I have an idea on the stretch of highway I was on. Pretty sure I won't find it. Thanks for the fix.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Search on eBay you'll find it at a reasonable price. Thank you for watching and all your support wax. Ride safe and have a great day. Love those Road King.

[@markleclair1266]

Thanks Rocco, I was having the same problem on my road king toe shifter.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Any questions just ask. Thank you for watching and your sub Mark. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@dave99887]

Gotta do the piece behind the primary cover. Great video! Thank you!!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Glad to help, Any questions just ask. Lay out your parts and it is not that bad. Thank you for your Sub DL. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@stevekingsbury7190]

Nice fix Rocco. Totally agree with you about we should expect more from Harley. SMH. Thanks for the video Sir.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help, Any questions just ask. Thank you for your Sub Steve. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@Chuckwoods777]

thank you so much, mine just went out as I pulled into work today!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy all went well.. Thank you for watching all your support Chuck.. Ride safe And have a great day.

[@dawidos117]

Rocco, you’re an awesome mechanic, man 👍🏻 Real engineer. Technicians at dealerships have really simple job nowadays, they just change parts, not repair them. You’re showing us there is always a better solution. Real mechanic should be able to repair things not only to change parts. Of course some things have to be changed, I understand that. Good job, man and thank you 👍🏻

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to Helps. Any questions just ask. Thank you for your Sub. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@johnnielsen5076]

Same nightmare on the transmission shift arm! This should work there as well. I love how there is not enough clearance behind the inner primary to remove the worn shifter on 06 and older models. Remove the entire drive system to change a 15 dollar shift arm?! Never again...I clearances the inner primary with a dremel for the next time! Thanks Harley....

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Hope this helps. Any questions just ask. Take a look at this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKTcl2huncd0d9k. this will fix your problem. I hope. Thank you for your Sub John. Let us know how this works out. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@davidgarber8944]

Lost mine totally yesterday, will give it a try to save a trip to Mr. Bike Shop .....

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Mine went the same way totally. That's why I made this video. You will be happy with the results, let us know how it works out. Thank you for watching and your sub. David.. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@bobberguy1]

Good video. Been there, done that. HD is famous for 20th century technology in the 21st century.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Couldn't of said it better, my friend. Thank you for watching all your support Bobby. Ride safe and have a great day. I'm gonna remember that one. And I will use it.

[@jeffmanzone]

Thinking it may be better to do it before they start to wear and do the fix. That way it doesn’t lose the groves. 🤷🏻‍♂️. Great video.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

I totally agree! It is by design so you trade or pay to fix...Shame on Harley. Thank you for you Sub Jeff. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@butchmannyreiniche5382]

Thank you for doing this video man. 🤘🏽

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Any questions just ask. Thank you for watching and your sub.Butch. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@jenstybring]

Great video! My toe-shifter is about to give in and I will now fix it using your method. This will save me a lot of money and therefor double the pleasure when I'm done. Looks like you are using a grinding disc and not a cutting disc in the video? Doesn't matter as long as the groove gets wider. Thanks and all the best from Norway

[@TwoWheelRocco]

I used a cutting disc, Just be Careful....Wear Gloves. The disc 1/8 wide. Take your time move slowly. Let us know how this works out. Thank you for your Sub. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@dougbell5503]

Thank you for video. Worked great.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to Help, Any questions just ask. Thank you for watching and your sub Doug. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@edrico1]

Another useful video, thanks for the tip, Rocco.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Glad to help, Any questions just ask. Thank you for your Support Ed. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@darrylyancey6753]

You are the man. Creative.👍🏾

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Any questions just ask. Thank you for watching and all your support darrylyaney.. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@davesleyer9393]

Nice fix. I tried using shims to no avail. I’m doing this tomorrow

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. It will work fine. You're giving yourself more clamping power by opening it up. Thank you for watching and all your support Dave. Let us know how it works out. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@davesleyer9393]

@@TwoWheelRocco it worked just fine thanks!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

@@davesleyer9393 Happy to hear all went well. Ride safe and have a great day. And thank you for the update.

[@scrumthebum2451]

Great idea but a little late for me. Lol 😂 my RK had same problem I figured it was a factory defect. I bought a drag specialties for the outter heal shifter and it’s actually a better designed piece.inner toe shifter is still the OEM & holding up for now.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Thank you for your Support. Any questions just ask. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@nickruopoli8720]

another nice video rocco ; oh I always wondered why you always place your hand on a cv carb after changing or adjusting jets.I'll let you explain. thanks for the videos , there always helpful stay & ride safe.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Good question! At that point it is not bolted on the motor. So it can fly off the intake when you try to start. I do this as a test start to make sure no gas leaks. Your air breather plate mount keep your carburetor in place.

[@nickruopoli8720]

Roc, she backfired, LOUD, and the carb came flyen off! live&learnanyway alls well that ends well . after two or three adjustments she's purrin again. thanks for your help ride safe.

[@jimrawlings9396]

Great video! Thanks, going save some cash.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Any questions just ask. Thank you for watching and your sub Jim. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@MrJeepmarine]

Great video, thanks!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Glad you liked it! Happy to Help, Any questions just ask, Thank you for watching and your Sub Shad. . Let us know how this works out. Ride Safe and have a great day

[@millionmilesman]

You can put a needle pin in the spline too

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Thank you for your comment. And yes that would work. Thank you for watching and your support. Ride safe and have a great day

[@Cody-cs2bd]

Last night while riding home both of my levers went limp, and the linkage still moves all the way to the transmission. Any idea what it could be?

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help, Shifter levers threads start to get worn. I've seen it many times and there's no action. Take apart respect and alter and reinstall. Thank you for watching and all your support Cody. Ride safe and have a great day. Let us know how it works out.

[@williamsjeffrey9256]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Any questions just ask. Thank you for watching and your sub. Jeff. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@Silentdrum71]

Great video Rocco! How do you loosen, and get to the front shifter Allen head, to do the same thing to that one also? Thank you in advance. T

[@rgh622]

Tony, Yes. Come up from the bottom as that head is facing down. Make sure you mark it's location also for ease of indexing when putting back on the bike. I also add red loc-tite to the spindle when retightening mine.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Thank you for your Support....Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@Silentdrum71]

Thank you Rocco. Have a great weekend!

[@dags6439]

Thanks Rocco I love my road king but I see so many videos of poor workmanship from Harley that makes me have second thoughts about keeping her

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Same here. They are a love affair. Harley needs to do better. I myself would never buy a new one. Happy to Helps. Any questions just ask. Thank you for your Sub Tags. Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@estebangutierrez1177]

If I didn’t mark it before taking off shifter how do I go about putting back on correctly. I changed the shaft and put on the sane shifters now not going in 5th gear not sure if I did something wrong? Back shifter is not touching floor board when I go to 4th

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help relocate that shift that you need more room to get it into fifth. Thank you for watching and all your support Esteban. Ride safe and have a great day. You'll get it be patient.

[@estebangutierrez1177]

@@TwoWheelRocco the rear heal shift you mean relocate or both do I got to do anything to the shaft? Thanks

[@TwoWheelRocco]

The rear shifter needs to be relocated. That's the spot. You don't have space to get it into fifth gear. I hope that helps.

[@estebangutierrez1177]

@@TwoWheelRocco thank you I will try that

[@cmeek1017]

Awesome fix. But as far as quality of the steal on the shifter, yeah harley probably does do alot to get you to buy new parts or bikes. But it's actually genius design flaw. Making the shifter out of worse metal will wear it out faster but will keep you from tearing up the shaft which is not as easy of a fix and something your average rider can't do on the side of the road

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. If they would've made the slot a little wider you would have more clamping pressure.And you would never need to replace that shifter . Let me know what you think. Thank you for watching and your sub Chris. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@ridermotorman1320]

Well it’s Harley no surprises 😂😂😂

[@TwoWheelRocco]

I Know. Thank you for your Sub and comment. Ride Safe and have a Great Day.

[@scrumthebum2451]

On the front shaft if you loosen the toe shifter and push as hard as you can against the shifter and the back of the shaft and tighten the shifter back down it will help firm it up a little. I just had to order a new oil cooler for my 2015 because of the dumb location they put it at it’s all beat up and so many fins are damaged it’s only working about 50% cooling efficiency.y 40 year old shovelhead also has a factory oil cooler mounted higher on the frame is in perfect condition. Smh Harley engineers a getting worse

[@TwoWheelRocco]

They know what they are doing. SALES SERVICE $$$$. Thank you for Support, Ride Safe and have a great day.

[@lawrencebrandt8448]

those are splines not threads on the shaft and they are warn .

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Happy to help. Thank you for the correction and all your support Lawrence .sometimes when you're filming, the video you get caught up a little bit on filming and everything but I appreciate your correction and it does fix it if you give a little relief to shifter to make more, tightening pressure. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@vinnypandolfo6195]

Just buy a new shift spline. It takes 10 minutes to replace the shaft.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Just trying to help. The shaft spline rod is not the problem There made out of steel. The heel to toe arms are made out of Cheap metal and that's why you cut away and you have more clamping power. Harley Davison dealer would replace the shifter levels. The steel shaft will not wear out, it's made out of a harder steel, The toe shifter is weak. They won't to sell you at the dealer. Thank you for watching and all your support Vinny. Have a great day ride safe..

[@vinnypandolfo6195]

@TwoWheelRocco Thank you for putting out the content. I feel that the whole assembly is a fail point. That steel spline has stripped on both of my baggers. The screws and shift levers are made of cheap pot metal. There shouldn't be such an issue for this long. I'm told HD has supposedly fixed the issue on their 2022 and up touring models. If there's an issue it should be repaired and replaced by HD. I've been stranded twice by two different year, and model touring bikes by the same issue! I've since added the spline and screws to my road kit. Just in case it happens again. The definition of insanity is "To do the same thing, over and over, and expect a different result"! It seems that HD has cornered the market on using that definition!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

@@vinnypandolfo6195 I truly believe it's designed to fail, so you will trade your bike in. This is how HD makes money just like the rocker box oil leak. These are things that will happen more than you care to think about. If you look at your shifting arm, the heel to toe,, you will see it doesn't have the clamping power, so when I cut out a little out off that center now, you can clamp down with more pressure onto the spline and this is the fix. Give it some thought, the spline is Harden steel. You can clean up that spline with a wire brush. what's caught in the thread is pieces of your shifter.. It's designed for failure. But I still love Harley Davidson. Great Rides and people.

[@ericrhinehart5434]

Tried to buy a set of keys for my 2010 Dyna, and was told to buy a new bike, those parts are obsolete! Can't wait to ask for parts for my 2001 Road King! I'll NEVER buy a bike from a HD dealership. Better to buy it from a poser who realizes he's not really a rider after he eats the depreciation cost!

[@TwoWheelRocco]

I agree. All they care about is a trade-in. And expensive repairs. Thank you for watching and your sub Eric. Ride safe and have a great day.

[@keithgrizzell593]

Buy a new shifter. Cmon. The " splines" are gone. just happen again.

[@TwoWheelRocco]

Just trying to help. The design was flawed when you open up the shifter lever you got much more clamping power. I'm sorry you missed that it been working fine and I did this three years ago. I'm sorry I don't have the money to go to Harley Davidson and spend my money away. I believe it was engineer to fail. I hope this helps somebody, Thank you for watching and all your support Keith. Ride safe and have a great day. And it is rewarding to fix your bike.. I don't find it rewarding to go to Harley Davidson and buy parts that I don't need. If you have time, read some of the other comments.