Who makes a swing arm that would fit. or a kit.
I doupt the stock dynas will fit but does anyone know different
Ive been thinking about this for almost 3 years now. I saw in the new v-twin that OCC has a production bike with the swing arm i need but i cant find were to buy it even went to their site but dont show anything on it or if its for sale. I just want a swingarm because the shocks are a dime a dozen should be an easy change out if i can find out what i need for the pivot. might even make it a fun ride and just something else so people can shake there head at my bike and ask why or how

thanks

 

I doubt that anyone makes a "kit" for that kind of thing. The pivot point on a Softail is some 4 to 6 inches higher than the Dynas and even if you made an"L" shaped swing arm that would look like a Dynas. The geometery of its arc would make keeping a belt at a continuous tension levelthroughout its arc virtually impossible.
A simpler, safer, and better, if not cheaper way would be to get an aftermarket frame from someone like Daytec that's made to look "like " a dyna, but with the mountings for a Softail engine/tranny combination. That would allow you to usenearly all of the parts off your bike.

 

Hello,Haven't gone out yet to look at my softail, but being a retired fabricator/welder, why couldn't you use the original softail rear section as a swingarm. Mount new shocks outboard like the dana you'll have to fab up some brackets and remove the stock shocks from under the bike.Still on my first cup of coffee.Just a thought.Good luck, tom south florida.

 

It would take a transmission change and a lot of other things to make this happen. On the Dyna, the pivot on the swingarm goes through a bracket on the transmission. On the Softail, the transmission is hard mounted to the frame. I don't know why anyone would want to do it anyway. Just get a Dyna.

Bill

 

That would work, but you would need to do some "engineering" to fabricate and weld in something a bit (read a whole lot) stronger than aSoftail's fender struts to mount the upper end of the shocks to.
Thefender strut on a Softail is not a real structural piece, being more like heavy duty trimand wouldnever survivethe kind of loading that a swing arm shock/spring would put on it.

 

accually thats kinda what i am thinking using the swingarm pivot but weldeing that strait dyna swingarm to the pivot and cut the rest of the softail section out

 

Dirty birds FL swingarm

 

Thought about Dyna shocks for my Heritage
They were on a Switchback . . . Ba ha ha !!!

Actually, I REALLY liked that bike. It was the red.
That 103/6 Sp combo in that lighter package. Awesome

I just couldn't hang with the vibes @ 65-75 mph