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Just a little update. I took the rim to the local dealer and told them exact what I wanted to do. The tech who they called the encyclopedia because hes been a tech for 30 years said," your trying to retrofit a newer rim on and older bike. I say yes. He says "I dont know if that can be done", I say "It can be done easily i just need all to set the bearing right. He looks at me and says "your own your own buddy and walks off". So instead jacking around with all the BS i went ahead and bought the tool to do it myself.
No ****.. I was like hey man I bought my bike here, the bike the rim came off of was bought here too so whats the damn problem. Until Saturday I hadn't watch any videos on how the bearing work is done. After I watched some stuff, and saw how easy it was I knew I'd be able to do it. All in I'm still coming out spending less than whay I was going to pay the dealer for to look and see if they could do the job
That really doesn't matter which way they're point. They're the same width regardless LoL.
They are the same width, but I think I remember someone showing that one side of it has a bevel on the interior side or something. What for I don't remember. Hell, I forget everything these days. ha
I used the pit posse tool and pulled the bearings on the kitchen table. Put everything back in the next day and it was easy to see they were not installed correctly two times.
I planned on waiting till this weekend to remove my stock rim and put the cvo rim on but I got home today and couldn't wait. Got it on and mocked up with all the nuts sorta hand torqued enough to line it all up.. Threw the calipers on and whodathunked it but the rotors weren't eating the calipers. They are a hair closer to the primary side caliper but just a ˘u#t hair.
I will check all the bolts and clean the calipers this weekend and get this **** out on the road.
The only problem I had was with the hub bewitn really narrow the bearing puller bridge wouldn't it son it flush. If I were to use it that way it would have eaten into the chrome and I didn't want that.. I couldn't find anything in the shed thay would fit it good enough. I happened to see soem paint stir stick and broke them to smaller pieces to lay them over the lip of the hub enough to get the bridge to sit flush.
I didn't need to use any spacers, or any abs bearing(ive seen that said a few times on other old threads).I didn't need any cvo brake side spacer for $20 or any cvo calipers that "floated". Standard non abs bearings from all ***** put in the correct way and bam.. The local shop couldn't get it. They were nice as hell and willing to keep trying to figure it out but I wanted to get it done without putting mix matched parts in.. Harley dealer didn't even take the time to look at it.
SBates08 gets all the credit for this. He answered all my damn questions and helped me thru it.. I've always done my own maintenance but never have had to remove a wheel. If I were to do it again I could do it faster than an oil change. Thanks to everyone else who commented on here as well. The whippersnapper was victorious on this one.
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