Originally Posted by DanDman

The guard you are selling should fit with floorboards.

Originally Posted by FXD2003Rider

Nice look Gary! I had the same crashbar mounted to my Dyna FXD 2003 (P/N 49218-01) It fitted like a glove and so far no problems. After a long trip I found out that my front fender had a dink. After having done some research it seems to me that the crash bar caused this dink when I hit a pothole in the road. I have dismounted the crash bar in order to prevent more damage to the front fender. Now I am considering to buy inner front sliders as used on the Dyna FXDP but I am not sure if these tubes give a larger travel to the front wheel. I f you're interested, please check this thread: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/dyna-...ork-tubes.html
Enjoy your ride and take care!
René

Originally Posted by FXD2003Rider

Some time ago I found a crash bar (P/N 49218-01) at Ebay and mounted it to my Dyna FXD 2003 equiped with floorboards as used on the FXDP. It fitted like a glove and so far no problems. After a long trip I found out that my front fender had a dink. After having done some research it seems to me that the crash bar caused this dink when I hit a pothole in the road. I have dismounted the crash bar in order to prevent more damage to the front fender. Now I am considering to buy inner front sliders as used on the Dyna FXDP (4th Pic item# 9) but I am not sure if these tubes give a larger travel to the front wheel. I asked FastHarley some advise. He wrote me:

"René, Your bike has the same frame as a Police FXDP Dyna Defender™ which came already with a crash bar. Please go HERE LINK: http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/photo...naDefender.htm to confirm this is the same type of crash bar. If you lengthen the sliders (lowers) it would make no difference as they are the same length.
You are thinking in the wrong direction. The reason why your fork bottomed out is they are not set up for hitting pot holes. This has to do with what is inside the fork tube. For a cheap fix, leave the bar off. I am sure that HD would not allow their brand new bike in 2003 to hit the crash bar.
Have you rebuilt your forks in the last 10,000 miles? Have you changed the fork oil every 10,000? How much do you weigh under normal riding conditions? Do you ride 2-up, add gear? Have you thought about increasing the spring pre-load? Do you wish to increase the dampening (more resistance during compression) to limit the dampening? That is where you start, not by lengthening the fork tubes or anything other. With the travel you already have should suffice your application. If you are hitting really deep pot holes, slow down and go around them.
What are: buy inner front sliders as used on the Dyna FXDP?"

I got back to him but was not able to attach some pic's to the private email. That's why I opened this thread, hoping Howard or someone else can help me on this matter. Here's what I like to add as an answer to Howard:

Hi Howard,
Thanks for your fast reply.
Let me first start answering your questions:
No, I did not rebuild my forks at all.
According the Owners manual I changed the oil at 20000 miles (32000 km).
When it happened I rode solo and had some hand luggage on the back of the bike.
Before I mounted the floorboard set a had the chrome engine guard P/N 49007-90A. After I mounted the floorboards I used P/N 49218-01.
When you take a look at the pic #01 you will notice that there is a difference between those two engine guards; not only in form but also in dimensions. The smaler one is the stock engine guard, the bigger one is the FXDP/floorboard version.
The 2nd picture shows that the top mounting brackets are not the same. The non-floorboard version guard's bracket is 1 3/8 inch longer, thus giving more distance between the upper tube and the fender.
When you look at pic #3 (FXDP vs FXD) please notice the difference in space between the lower triple tree and the slider cover of both bikes. All this made me think to change the fork tubes and buy me a set of the slider tubes P/N 45365-94.
All this made me thinking changing to FXDP fork legs (pic# 4). I noticed on your site that the stock inner fork legs lenght is 24 1/2 inch. Question is, how long are the FXDP inner legs. I think I will need 26 1/2 inch inner legs. Please advise! René.