wide glide front end
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wide glide front end
replacing stock front end on 79 xlh roadster 1000 with a wide glide. any suggestiong on where to find one about 4" shorter. also looking for big light bar, spoke wheel, and discs to match?
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RE: wide glide front end
To get shorter you will have to replace the fork tubes.
If you just want to go for the WG look, get some wide triple trees and use the rest of your stock stuff with them.
Remember that the WG neck stem is 1 inch, and your Sporty stem is 7/8 inch.
(New XLs have 1 inch, but I do not remember when the change happened.)
That means you will have to buy adapter cups or special bearings to fit the WG to the XL.
If you just want to go for the WG look, get some wide triple trees and use the rest of your stock stuff with them.
Remember that the WG neck stem is 1 inch, and your Sporty stem is 7/8 inch.
(New XLs have 1 inch, but I do not remember when the change happened.)
That means you will have to buy adapter cups or special bearings to fit the WG to the XL.
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RE: wide glide front end
poco is 100% correct, I am in the process of converting my front end as well. You may need a neck conversion cup set to give you the 1" opening, depending on how new the forks are you may now have different axle size, different wheel bearing setup, forks may take different style caliper, which now meanss you may need a different lever/resivor. This is a very big project. The best thing you can do is find the wideglide front end you want, know what year it is, and shop around and get all of these parts to match that year and model. I was pretty thrifty on ebay and some of my parts are used, some are new, a complete setup including 21" wheel was around 600.00, you may be able to do this for less, I had to convert from drum to disc brake. Good luck. feel free to ask questions
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