Chrome rear sprocket/pulley suggestions
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Chrome rear sprocket/pulley suggestions
Just dropped my FXD mags off at my indy to strip down and send off for chrome. He all but talked me into replacing my stock pulley with chrome cover with a solid chrome one that matches the wheels better. The best match I can find is $400 and I don't want to put that much more into it as I'm already going to have to buy chrome spacers, bolt covers, axle covers, and he talked me into polished rotors front and back. Below is a link to the one I'm looking at. Just curious if there are aftermarkets at better prices that will be a direct fit replacement? I'm not exactly familiar with the exact dimensions that I need to look for as far as fitment with regard to width, teeth, etc.
Another option I thought of would be to find someone with a stock pulley laying around that I could get cheap and have it chromed. It won't match the spoke pattern on the rims but it would be true to what HD puts on the FXD with these wheels.
http://www.harley-davidson.com/gma/g...bmLocale=en_US
Another option I thought of would be to find someone with a stock pulley laying around that I could get cheap and have it chromed. It won't match the spoke pattern on the rims but it would be true to what HD puts on the FXD with these wheels.
http://www.harley-davidson.com/gma/g...bmLocale=en_US
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I'll amend my post a bit. The HD sprocket I have the link to is not an exact match for the rims I will be using. It will probably look okay but for $400 I would want a real matching sprocket, which I don't think exists.
So, given that I have the same sprocket on my bike that comes with the FXD standard with mag wheels and I have a chrome cover for it, and therefore it's common to see that sprocket paired with the FXD rims, what would you suggest if if were you? Stay with what I have? Find or have made a fully chrome FXD sprocket? Or search for the best possible match to the wheels in chrome?
So, given that I have the same sprocket on my bike that comes with the FXD standard with mag wheels and I have a chrome cover for it, and therefore it's common to see that sprocket paired with the FXD rims, what would you suggest if if were you? Stay with what I have? Find or have made a fully chrome FXD sprocket? Or search for the best possible match to the wheels in chrome?
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Manufacturer, resource, price, pic? Is it a HD pulley?
Is this what it looks like? I agree, it's better but not a match nonetheless.
Porker has the same rims on his LR that I'm getting done and looking at his pix, looks like he used the standard sprocket and either chromed it or put a cover on it and it looks pretty darn good.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Harle...91210003r17218
Is this what it looks like? I agree, it's better but not a match nonetheless.
Porker has the same rims on his LR that I'm getting done and looking at his pix, looks like he used the standard sprocket and either chromed it or put a cover on it and it looks pretty darn good.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Harle...91210003r17218
Last edited by 2007fxdc; Jan 22, 2009 at 02:46 PM.
Try this place www.americanclassicmotors.net or here
http://www.demonscycle.com decent prices at both.
http://www.demonscycle.com decent prices at both.
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Manufacturer, resource, price, pic? Is it a HD pulley?
Is this what it looks like? I agree, it's better but not a match nonetheless.
Porker has the same rims on his LR that I'm getting done and looking at his pix, looks like he used the standard sprocket and either chromed it or put a cover on it and it looks pretty darn good.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Harle...91210003r17218
Is this what it looks like? I agree, it's better but not a match nonetheless.
Porker has the same rims on his LR that I'm getting done and looking at his pix, looks like he used the standard sprocket and either chromed it or put a cover on it and it looks pretty darn good.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Harle...91210003r17218
http://www.harley-davidson.com/gma/g...bmLocale=en_US
Harley pulley. Looks like the one you have linked there. Designed to match my front wheel ultimately.
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Do a net search for Harley chromers. There are sevral who have an exchange program. Buy a stock pulley which has been chromed from them, pay a deposit, send them your stock pulley, get your deposit back. Probably cost you less than half the cost of a Harley chrome pulley.
To me, the cover looks fine. Not worth the extra bucks. I never even notice the flat silver uncovered side of my pulley.
To me, the cover looks fine. Not worth the extra bucks. I never even notice the flat silver uncovered side of my pulley.
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Believe mine is a 6 spoke HD chrome pulley.
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Yep yours is the exact one that my indy thought would best match my wheels. But my wheels are 5 spoke with each spoke splitting into two and this is a 6 spoke pulley. Look good - yes, probably. Look $400 good against my new chromed rims - nah.
As for the thunderstar pulley, according to the P&A catalog, they don't make one for my year and model - so that's out.
I'm leaning towards staying with what I have or, at most, getting a chromed stock pulley.
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Yep yours is the exact one that my indy thought would best match my wheels. But my wheels are 5 spoke with each spoke splitting into two and this is a 6 spoke pulley. Look good - yes, probably. Look $400 good against my new chromed rims - nah.
As for the thunderstar pulley, according to the P&A catalog, they don't make one for my year and model - so that's out.
I'm leaning towards staying with what I have or, at most, getting a chromed stock pulley.
As for the thunderstar pulley, according to the P&A catalog, they don't make one for my year and model - so that's out.
I'm leaning towards staying with what I have or, at most, getting a chromed stock pulley.
I bought the pulley from Chicago HD for $287.20 but by the time I paid for the Brake rotor, chrome sprocket bolts, etc., etc,. I had 4 bills in it.