When I pulled the wheel off to change the rotor I had to hold in what I assume is the seal. It would fall out if I didn't hold it in. When I re-assembled everything I'm pretty sure everything went back in the way it came out. On one side I have the bearing the seal and the speed-O thing. The other side has the bearing, a seal and a spacer. Since the bike is new to me, I'll probably change the bearings and seals pretty soon...just for my own peace of mind.

 

Yes, those are the ones I had lying around. (But you might find equivalents locally too.)

 

OK I am going to ask one more time, on the initial install did you take the calipers off or just the wheel?

 

Sorry, yes I had the calipers off. Couldn't get the wheel off far enough to replace the rotor without removing the calipers.

 

Well taking off the calipers increases the variables but all these parts are metal and you can take them off a thousand times and the tolerances do not change.
You need to go back and see what has changed.
What has changed is either the distance between the rotors or the distance between calipers.
The wheel spacers will not change this.
The seal should not change this but should not be loose. Something is either holding it out or it is shot.
You need to pull everything apart and check the rotors, the are flat and should not affect things but we need to look at what has changed so if it mean putting back to stock that is what needs to be done to figure this out.
In my opinion Shimming without knowing what is wrong is a mistake, especially since we are talking about brakes and bearings.

 

Thanks for the advice

I'm thinking that the seals are more than likely shot. I would imagine that they are not supposed to fall out like they did. I'll order some and change them out and see what that does.

 

The seals won't have anything to do with rotor placement.
Do a simple check.
Take a ride and take your hands off the handle bars.
If you go straight then everything is good if not you need to adjust your shims.

 

When the speedometer is driven off the front wheel you can use only one spacer...the speedo drive is the other spacer

 

Cool, thanks. I did that last night and it went nice and straight.

 

Well you cant argue with that;-)