Hello, first of all, thank you for all your help in the past, as a 20 year old kid with very limited knowledge and even less experience, this forum has been a great tool.
So here's my problem. It's a 1972 FLH (drum brake with old round swingarm), and I recently got new tires mounted. Taking the wheels off went smoothly enough (well... relatively speaking), but now that I'm finally getting around to putting them back on, I'm running into an issue. I get the rear tire under the fender, lined up straight... but I can not get the tire to squeeze between the brake drum and the swingarm. I pushed and twisted it as hard as I dared, without wrecking the sidewall.
It is the same size tire as what I had before (130/90/16, I believe). Any of your fellas run into this issue before? Just hoping for a couple ideas or tricks. Maybe deflate the tire..? The only other thing that pops into my head is removing the drum/sprocket and mounting it to the wheel before I put it in place, but I'd like to avoid that, if at all possible...
Thank you! - Danny

 

If its the same size, I would deflate it to get it in.

 

I made sure the drum was tight againdt the cover plate, and deflated the tire, and I got it through. Thanks. Now I realize it was probably silly to start a whole new thread just for that, but thanks just the same.

 

That what forums are for.

 

Naw your alright silly is when you don't ask questions till there's a mess to clean up.

Run into that issue with the old bikes , tires back then had completely different profile than today and people didn't use the chicken strip much back then