Heartland 2-5-0 with Metzler 260/40 18
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Heartland 2-5-0 with Metzler 260/40 18
ok...i'm installing a Heartland 2-5-0 kit on my bike and need some intel on using a 260 Metz. I've read it will fit but will it fit if the bike is lowered and 1 1/2'. I have a Breakout front end on my 'll Fat Boy. The frame is raked 35*and I'm running 21' wheels so i'll have to lower it and inch to be level and i'd like to go another 1//2 inch for looks.
You should have no problem. My homie did a 2-5-0 with a PM 18x8.5 with a Metz 260 and slammed with a shotgun. I got the EZ-R kit on my ride which is basically the same thing and I'm running a 260
Just a FYI. If you want the slammed look like on heartlands site their rides got air. If you go with their shortest fender. I think you need a air ride for it to look right.
Post pics when you project is done
Post pics when you project is done
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I'll do it. Why do you say I need air ride? Wont a lowering kit do the same thing?
They have two different brands of air ride...Legend without a compressor and Progressive with a compressor. Any input on which one I should go with if I go the air ride route. Just to add, I bought the Heartlander with the license plate and cat eye built in.
They have two different brands of air ride...Legend without a compressor and Progressive with a compressor. Any input on which one I should go with if I go the air ride route. Just to add, I bought the Heartlander with the license plate and cat eye built in.
Last edited by Leftus; Sep 16, 2014 at 12:40 AM.
Since you went with the longest fender option. You should be fine with just a lowering kit.
The shorter the fender with HL kits it exposes a gap between the tire and fender. I went with the shortest fender and I wanted it to sit low. So the only way to get it low to my liking was air
As for air rides. Not sure what HL offers, but I went with shotgun. For a softail I would not recomend anything else. One five minute conversation with JD and I was a customer for life.
The shorter the fender with HL kits it exposes a gap between the tire and fender. I went with the shortest fender and I wanted it to sit low. So the only way to get it low to my liking was air
As for air rides. Not sure what HL offers, but I went with shotgun. For a softail I would not recomend anything else. One five minute conversation with JD and I was a customer for life.
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Got ya. Thanks for the input. This is neither here nor there but I'm painting the frame and whole nine yards, was wondering if your Rock is Scarlett Red?
Aslo, Exhausts and the 2-5-0 kit. Will my V&H black Shortshots staggered work with the 2-5-0 swingarm?
Aslo, Exhausts and the 2-5-0 kit. Will my V&H black Shortshots staggered work with the 2-5-0 swingarm?
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