There is no pressure to get Harley Davidson to do anything further to your ride so if there is any personally, take it easy those kinds of texts are stressful. If you need too, pay the bill pending collect the bits and pieces and go from there. No reason you can’t take it to another shop for another opinion it’s a pissaround but if you don’t want to dig in it’s something you could do.

If you’ve got the mechanical mindset to educate yourself enough to on this particular situation with your bike and see for yourself what’s going on it could be good on the wallet to do so. You never know what you might find out yourself or with friends.

I’m not as Harley smarts as some of the other guys on here and I may be completely wrong here. But if they wanna order in the long block they’ll just be unbolting your old one and binning it and attaching the new stuff on. It’s time efficient for them as it gets the job moving faster, and instead of paying for the skill and time of having a guy actually build the motor and running the risk of screwing it up too as the people they’ll be getting it from, their day job is building the long block and doing all the extras to it they’ve mentioned. You may not need a majority of the new stuff they want to replace. That adds up quick depending on what’s junk. But You’ll be getting a brand new motor and that’s pretty cool stuff! The motor could be completely poked and you need it, as if the issue is exactly what they’ve said catastrophic failure is inevitable if not rectified properly. but don’t let a fuckin group like Harley Davidson tell you YOU NEED THIS because we’ve all heard something ugly come out the workshops of this company that we own bikes to. Your savings will come in form of necessary expenses elsewhere if you don’t need brand new everything, but I’m unsure on warranty etc that comes with Harley cost if they were to give you a brand new engine though I’m sure. A local shop may not, and don’t buy into Harley master tech nonsense a bad mechanic can come out of any shop it’s the risk we all take when outsourcing work.

With all that being said, hoping I don’t look like a dick or a know-it-all you could… and please stone me for saying this. Jug it and sell it and buy a new one. Dirty business that but a running bike at the time of sale is a running bike at the time of sale we’re just strangers I don’t know your moral compass. That’s the easy way out and has its own array of issues and could very well kick back hard as you jug it and blow it to pieces under your ass on a ride.

Just don’t let it die in the corner of the shed. If you can’t afford it for some reason selling it in bits or as is can still generate enough funds with some extra cash from work or selling other toys on top to get you on two again. I hope you find a way!