New rear wheel off center
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From: Houston
I am not sure if your bike would be the same, but my 2010 fat boy, you must seat the bearings properly. Meaning one bearing must be put in first, and seated as far as possible. then from the other side, you insert the spacer and other bearing. In other words the location of the second bearing, is dependant on the correct placement of the first. I believe it was different for older bikes, and it didnt matter which was seated first. but I am not sure waht year that change would have been made.
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Cruiser
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From: Ocean Springs MS
I am not sure if your bike would be the same, but my 2010 fat boy, you must seat the bearings properly. Meaning one bearing must be put in first, and seated as far as possible. then from the other side, you insert the spacer and other bearing. In other words the location of the second bearing, is dependant on the correct placement of the first. I believe it was different for older bikes, and it didnt matter which was seated first. but I am not sure waht year that change would have been made.
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Cruiser
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From: Ocean Springs MS
The tire is rubbing the fender. I talked to the harley shop today and they said harley made it offset to the left but he doesn't know why. That sucks, so if i want to run the set up i have i will have to do some machining on my caliper and get some spacers. Oh well the price you pay to ride a harley i guess. lol!
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From: Ma.
The tire is rubbing the fender. I talked to the harley shop today and they said harley made it offset to the left but he doesn't know why. That sucks, so if i want to run the set up i have i will have to do some machining on my caliper and get some spacers. Oh well the price you pay to ride a harley i guess. lol!
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Cruiser
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From: Ocean Springs MS
Well it looks like i have 2 choices, i can machine my caliper down and get another axle and pulley spacer or go with a 150 tire. I have talked with HD dealership and with the wheel manufacturer and the bike came from the factory with the offset. I really would like to keep the 160 but this is the first time i have done anything like this and nobody can tell me exactly how much i need to get the caliper machined to make the wheel perfecrtly center. It has to be dead on because you don't have much clearance to play with. Just don't want to screw anything up.
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Well it looks like i have 2 choices, i can machine my caliper down and get another axle and pulley spacer or go with a 150 tire. I have talked with HD dealership and with the wheel manufacturer and the bike came from the factory with the offset. I really would like to keep the 160 but this is the first time i have done anything like this and nobody can tell me exactly how much i need to get the caliper machined to make the wheel perfecrtly center. It has to be dead on because you don't have much clearance to play with. Just don't want to screw anything up.
They make kits to mod your ride for a larger rear tire get the kit do it right or they trying to save buck is going to cost you many time more and end up with a worthless ride.
Your bike was not designed for a tire that size to make it work you need some different parts.
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From: Ocean Springs MS
You are going to end up with one big mess.
They make kits to mod your ride for a larger rear tire get the kit do it right or they trying to save buck is going to cost you many time more and end up with a worthless ride.
Your bike was not designed for a tire that size to make it work you need some different parts.
They make kits to mod your ride for a larger rear tire get the kit do it right or they trying to save buck is going to cost you many time more and end up with a worthless ride.
Your bike was not designed for a tire that size to make it work you need some different parts.
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I am running a rear wheel on front and had to have the hub machined to make everything work. Here's what I did to get the measurements right. If your axle is 3/4", then 3/4" PVC pipe will work perfectly. If not, you might need to experiment with some different sized PVC.
Remove your caliper. Install the wheel with no spacers and put it where you want it to be. Take a measurement on both sides and cut the new spacers out of the PVC (you can use a large tubing cutter to get the cut nice and square). Mount the wheel up with the PVC spacers and make sure everything is still good, adjust the spacers as needed to make it perfect. Be sure to label all spacers for proper side. Take the stock spacers, the PVC spacers and your caliper to a machine shop. Have them mill the difference between your right side spacers off the caliper, and also have them mill a pulley spacer of the exact same thinckness. Then have some spacers made to match the PVC ones.
You could also choose a pulley spacer that works, and have them mill the same amount off your caliper and right side spacer, then custom make a left spacer with the thickness of the pulley spacer added to it.
As long as you have a good machine shop to rely on, it's basically just making sure that whatever you add to the pulley gets added to the left spacer and subtracted from the caliper and right spacer or vice versa. Good luck and let us know how it all turns out.
Remove your caliper. Install the wheel with no spacers and put it where you want it to be. Take a measurement on both sides and cut the new spacers out of the PVC (you can use a large tubing cutter to get the cut nice and square). Mount the wheel up with the PVC spacers and make sure everything is still good, adjust the spacers as needed to make it perfect. Be sure to label all spacers for proper side. Take the stock spacers, the PVC spacers and your caliper to a machine shop. Have them mill the difference between your right side spacers off the caliper, and also have them mill a pulley spacer of the exact same thinckness. Then have some spacers made to match the PVC ones.
You could also choose a pulley spacer that works, and have them mill the same amount off your caliper and right side spacer, then custom make a left spacer with the thickness of the pulley spacer added to it.
As long as you have a good machine shop to rely on, it's basically just making sure that whatever you add to the pulley gets added to the left spacer and subtracted from the caliper and right spacer or vice versa. Good luck and let us know how it all turns out.
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From: Ocean Springs MS
I am running a rear wheel on front and had to have the hub machined to make everything work. Here's what I did to get the measurements right. If your axle is 3/4", then 3/4" PVC pipe will work perfectly. If not, you might need to experiment with some different sized PVC.
Remove your caliper. Install the wheel with no spacers and put it where you want it to be. Take a measurement on both sides and cut the new spacers out of the PVC (you can use a large tubing cutter to get the cut nice and square). Mount the wheel up with the PVC spacers and make sure everything is still good, adjust the spacers as needed to make it perfect. Be sure to label all spacers for proper side. Take the stock spacers, the PVC spacers and your caliper to a machine shop. Have them mill the difference between your right side spacers off the caliper, and also have them mill a pulley spacer of the exact same thinckness. Then have some spacers made to match the PVC ones.
You could also choose a pulley spacer that works, and have them mill the same amount off your caliper and right side spacer, then custom make a left spacer with the thickness of the pulley spacer added to it.
As long as you have a good machine shop to rely on, it's basically just making sure that whatever you add to the pulley gets added to the left spacer and subtracted from the caliper and right spacer or vice versa. Good luck and let us know how it all turns out.
Remove your caliper. Install the wheel with no spacers and put it where you want it to be. Take a measurement on both sides and cut the new spacers out of the PVC (you can use a large tubing cutter to get the cut nice and square). Mount the wheel up with the PVC spacers and make sure everything is still good, adjust the spacers as needed to make it perfect. Be sure to label all spacers for proper side. Take the stock spacers, the PVC spacers and your caliper to a machine shop. Have them mill the difference between your right side spacers off the caliper, and also have them mill a pulley spacer of the exact same thinckness. Then have some spacers made to match the PVC ones.
You could also choose a pulley spacer that works, and have them mill the same amount off your caliper and right side spacer, then custom make a left spacer with the thickness of the pulley spacer added to it.
As long as you have a good machine shop to rely on, it's basically just making sure that whatever you add to the pulley gets added to the left spacer and subtracted from the caliper and right spacer or vice versa. Good luck and let us know how it all turns out.