Front Wheel Spacers question
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Front Wheel Spacers question
I am in the process of changing my "pizza cutter" front wheel on my nightrain to the 120/70-21.
The bad news is the kids decided to "clean" the garage and now I am not sure which wheel spacer goes on which side.
Can someone with a Custom or nightrain please post which side has the longer spacer? (Front)
I sized things up in relation to the caliper and rotor and think i have it straight but the wider tire really accents the wheel offset, so it looks a little more noticable with the tire closer to the left fork than center. So far the breaks line up fine with OEM spacers (guess i got lucky).
The bad news is the kids decided to "clean" the garage and now I am not sure which wheel spacer goes on which side.
Can someone with a Custom or nightrain please post which side has the longer spacer? (Front)
I sized things up in relation to the caliper and rotor and think i have it straight but the wider tire really accents the wheel offset, so it looks a little more noticable with the tire closer to the left fork than center. So far the breaks line up fine with OEM spacers (guess i got lucky).
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Thanks, The longer one being on the left is what i had that made the rotor line up good. Have a new problem now.
Both hubs measure 6.5" (through the axle hole), strange thing is the OEM wheel is almost perfectly centered between the forks, the new rim is 1/4" off to the rotor side. This means to center the wheel I will need to add an additional 1/8" longer spacer to the rotor side and also add the same spacing to the caliper, basically add a few washers between the fork and caliper.
Looking back I think I should have re-laced my OEM hub.
Both hubs measure 6.5" (through the axle hole), strange thing is the OEM wheel is almost perfectly centered between the forks, the new rim is 1/4" off to the rotor side. This means to center the wheel I will need to add an additional 1/8" longer spacer to the rotor side and also add the same spacing to the caliper, basically add a few washers between the fork and caliper.
Looking back I think I should have re-laced my OEM hub.
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They claim it is for my year, 2000+, but you know how that goes.
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I have been playing around half the day cutting PVC spacers.
Also, does anyone know if the fender is perfectly centered, it would be a lot easier to use the fender has a center reference if I knew for sure it is built centered.
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Sealed bearings are sealed. Timkin's are not sealed and look much different. It's easy to tel with two different wheels in front of you.
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The bearings look exactly the same as the OEM wheel.
After playing around all day on spacing I found some interesting stuff.
The 21x2.15 OEM wheel with orginial spacers sits 1/4" off to the right measureing from wheel lip to fork lower. (Fender is perfectly centered)
The new 21x3 sits 1/4" to the left with OEM spacers and the breaks line up.
I ended up using pvc temp spacers adding 1/4" to the long side and taking 1/4" from the short side. This makes the new wheel center with the OEM fender but still gives the offset like the orginial wheel.
Now I need to machine some spacers and add 1/4" spacers to the caliper.
For those of you that installed the wider wheel and had no problems, man I wish I was that lucky.
After playing around all day on spacing I found some interesting stuff.
The 21x2.15 OEM wheel with orginial spacers sits 1/4" off to the right measureing from wheel lip to fork lower. (Fender is perfectly centered)
The new 21x3 sits 1/4" to the left with OEM spacers and the breaks line up.
I ended up using pvc temp spacers adding 1/4" to the long side and taking 1/4" from the short side. This makes the new wheel center with the OEM fender but still gives the offset like the orginial wheel.
Now I need to machine some spacers and add 1/4" spacers to the caliper.
For those of you that installed the wider wheel and had no problems, man I wish I was that lucky.
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