I'd love to swap a 150 tire in for my current 200 tire - the question is, are the narrower swingarms similar enough to the wide-tire swingarms to do a bolt-on swap? I'm thinking I can pick up a heritage swingarm and swap it over without much difficulty, but I don't know if there's any significant differences other than the width.

 

swap out the wheel and either a. keep current hubs to keep current spacing or b. narrow wheel with new spacers. Fender use new spacers.

 

Thanks, I wonder if it would look decent with the narrow tire and wide swingarm, changing out just the wheel would be a whole lot easier than swapping the entire rear end out. Might take another look at the bike today.

 

best bet is new fender new wheel, or just find someone whit an older softail that wants to go wider and you guys can just swp stuff out.

 

I might want to swap the swing arm and wheel out with you. Brakes and all.What type of wheel are you looking for. PM your phone number if your interested.G.

 

What year we talking? 07 and up Heritage/Deluxe and Fatboy have the same swingarm.

 

I could be wrong here but from what I understand is the 200mm rear tire models ie Fatboy, Nightrain, Crossbones all have a widerframe in the rear. I have never measured one so I can't say for sure. I know the rocker is wider than my bike. Take a tape measure to a dealer and measure a couple to make sure it will fit. The tire and wheel can be swapped out for sure

 

Hey Man! Caught your other thread concerning your Carb switch over. Great stuff!

So what was the answer to this rear swing arm issue? Was it a direct swap or was there more work involved?

I may want to do this to my Crossbones one day.

Thanks

 

I actually didn't do the swingarm swap at all - I used a 150 wheel and tire from another model (dyna maybe?) and it bolted right in with the stock crossbones swingarm:



Hard to see, but that's the original swingarm.

I just had to switch the wheel spacers around to accomodate the narrow wheel. I guess the hub itself is the exact same width on both styles of wheel because the pulley and rotor still line up perfectly on the bike.

 

Okay cool. I can see now from that photo that the swingarm is still wide. When you say you switched the wheel spacers around, do you mean you used the stock spacers, just not in the same arrangement or did you have to get new ones?

Also, did you go this route because it was simpler to do than a complete swing arm swap? I am curious because if I do this swap, I want to be able to use stock Harley fenders and I am not sure how it would look to a narrow H-D fender with the wide swingarm. It works on your bike because of the style of fender you are running.

Thanks again. Keep it up!