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excuse my ignorance, brand brand new here. I have no idea how to start a thread, but I had my rear wheel **** the bed today. Haven’t taken apart yet to see the full damage, but had a bolt back out even with a lock kit on it and have a feeling I’m gonna need a new wheel in general. I have an 06 dyna super glide with a wide glide front end. As far as I can tell it still has the stock 17x4.5 on it. I can not find a single 17x4.5 anywhere on the cheap. What are other sizes that can bolt directly up to it? Yes I believe the pulley and hub are trashed as well. Not sure how to post pictures or threads or videos or I would to help picture what I’m saying haha. Any quick help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Another one of the fancy aftermarket parts that don't work for crap. The pilley looks cracked.. The spoke hub is likely shot.. If the rim is straight you might be able to find a hub cleap.. Relacing ain't that hard.
Look at it this way: They have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the problem is not simply that the bolts are backing out...
I don't have anything to add to the OP problem but looking at this, how does this happen? Looking at the photo it doesn't appear that the bolts just backed out as we assume could happen if someone didn't use a locking system. This is also not the first post like this. I can think of a couple of ways and one is just plain scary.
First scenario and the one I would be less worried about if it happened is the backing plate for the locking system is bringing the bolt head out just a bit too close to the swingarm and with some flex in system combined with closer tolerances that bolt head is coming into contact with the swingarm and things cascade from there.
Second and more worrisome for me is somehow the bolts are jumping threads. Maybe these bolts are like connecting rod bolts. 1 and done. After they are torqued down once they stretch too much to be used a second time. Maybe harley has some weird thread cut. Maybe both. Maybe something else.
I guess as we have discussed before replace the bolts with new once removed.
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Yet another pulley bolt thread
Harley parts ain't cheap.
