Rear drive pulley ?
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Rear drive pulley ?
I have a 05 softail that I'm doing a 200 tire conversion on this spring, I'll be using a 06 rear pulley from a 200mm wheel. I know my current pulley is 70 tooth and I think the 06 is 65? Is the front pulley that same size on the 05,06-07? Will the 65 tooth give me more low end? Thanks
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Can't speak to the front pulley size, or if your same belt can work with the smaller rear pulley (if there is enough rearward play to tension the belt with a smaller pulley), but I can say that IF it all goes together, you will have less low-end grunt, but you will have lower RPM at highway speed.
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From what I can find, it looks like they changed in 2007 along with the 96'er and six speed, to 32 tooth front, 66 tooth by 1" wide rear pully.
1995-2006 softails used a 32 tooth front, 70 x 1 1/8 rear pulley.
So thinking the 06 Ur getting should have the 70 unless someone changed it out.
Again as said above, if U now have a 70 and go to a 65 U'll lose acceleration down low and U'll be running less RPMS at same speed on hiway.
Its like a car with 308 gears (65Tooth pully) vs one with 411's (70Tooth)..
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1995-2006 softails used a 32 tooth front, 70 x 1 1/8 rear pulley.
So thinking the 06 Ur getting should have the 70 unless someone changed it out.
Again as said above, if U now have a 70 and go to a 65 U'll lose acceleration down low and U'll be running less RPMS at same speed on hiway.
Its like a car with 308 gears (65Tooth pully) vs one with 411's (70Tooth)..
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Last edited by oct1949; Feb 11, 2012 at 01:13 PM.
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