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Good Morning Multi,
Thanks for the feedback. Yea, Avons tire chart lists this tire at 4.7 inches wide, the tire calculator I use calls the width for this size at 5 inches nominal. Dennis Kirk lists this tire at 5 inches nominal, everybody agrees with the tire height at 25.5 inches tall. So until all this stuff shows up I dont know what to tell you other than in either case I have enough clearance to run the V-Rod fender with this tire at the nominal 5 inch dimension. The tire load ratings improved with my tire selection to 63V on the front and 74W on the rear, so no worries there.
Playing with RB racing's rake and trail calculator, and a bit of creative fudging the numbers, with 13 3/8 inch shocks and a front tire .6 inches shorter than stock (.3 lower axial height) should end up with 28.4 (ish) degrees rake and 4.2 (ish) inches of trail. So that looking good for a big cruiser, I will break out the protractor and some string to verify this after the new wheels are on. https://www.rbracing-rsr.com/advchoppercalc.html
Ahh the RSD Morris wheels, you nailed it. It was the connection with the early Sportster Morris wheels that made that decision for me, To my eye its a good looking simple wheel that has a very traditional old school Harley look with modern rim sizes, fairly light too.
: Mike
Yeah those 7-spoke look good and are additional step back into "old school" jumping past the 9-spoke
It doesn't really matter of course, but I think you mixed something up on the front sizing...you quote 130/70-18 and then 4.7" (see chart)
EDIT:
Oh...and I remember seeing that VRod front fender up on your shelf (some time ago) thinking that it was going on the FXDC, but then it didn't and now it is.
I've been planning on doing something similar using the VRod fender I have a few of them
What the hell did I miss?
This?...
Originally Posted by cggorman
Love Jugs posted a "teaser" promising new and amazing oil temp information. Their typical spin. They also bumped the LJ installation thread and it was also modified (deleted, moved, locked? It's not showing on page 1 anymore)
I looked through my email alerts...doesn't seem to be there
Btw, Yikes...Ouch!
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Whatever it was, I missed it too, but it damn sure not you
Ghost
Originally Posted by TBT3
Thunder Torque Inserts installed and they sound awesome! It's a nice, deep rumble. Just loud enough to put a big smile on my face but not so loud that my neighbors are going to complain. Seriously stoked on how these turned out. If anyone has been contemplating it I would highly recommend them, especially for something that only costs $28!
I did have an awful time removing one of my baffles. It was rusted and corroded to the muffler. I ended up getting a heavy duty slide hammer on loan from Advance Auto and was able to pull it out using that. Talk about a pain in the *** though!
Shout out to TinCup for help and encouragement, and to Kevin at DK for responding on the weekend and answering my questions.
If anyone wants to see some pics, I created an album with a few pics of the inserts. I originally got the 258s but they were too big so then I got the 158s. Some of the pics are the two next to each other to show the size difference... https://www.hdforums.com/g/album/7405868
Very nicely done! You had to hang tough on that job, some would have given up but you didn't Every success will lead you to the next success, and your confidence in your abilities will grow.
Good on ya!
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