I installed 14 in wild 1 bagger bars on my 13 sg. I bought their firmer poly bushings as they recommended since I am going to a taller bar. I torqued to the the spec in the book (30-40) I did 40 and I noticed they feel very weak. If I was backing the bike up and put some force they flex the bushings quite a bit. My father had the same bike and bars along with the bushings. He had his done and are much firmer when moving the bike around.

Question: I have heard with these poly bushing you want to torque and let the poly settle and compress and torque, repeating this a few times. Is this true?

If if it is true I would be disturbing the loctite. Should I put the bolts, clean, re loctite and torque as described above?

Thanks!

 

I’ve never had to retorque the poly bushings. I had 14’s on my 11 streetglide. I just tightened the **** out of the. Went by feel.

 

Awesome I think I might just do that. Did you run the stock top clamp or buy a beefier one? Thanks for the input I appreciate it.

 

On your 13 you do not need a beefier clamp, you already have one. The 09 and down had the two piece clamp that needed replacing.

 

Thank you. Wild 1’s said the same as you but want to see what others thought. Thanks again!

 

07 and down...08’s began the one piece top clamp.

 

Mine already had the one piece clAmp. I just cleaned the clamping area on bars and clamp w alcohol. To not leave any grease behind.

The torque specs you had for bushings. Are those stock specs? If so their not going to work for new bushings. To get them even I would tighten with a torque wrench till it feels good then just make the other one match with same setting.

 

Right, my steed is an '08 RKC with the one piece bar clamp. I went with Wildone 10" mini apes and I purchased their bushings. I had a terrible time with the bushing. The bushing were a bit too tall and I could not use the stock chrome bar clamp cover. The bottom of the cover would touch the top of the bars. I torqued to the correct specs and the bars would more. Eventually I went with new OEM bushings and all went beautiful. I have a set of Wildone bushings that I can give to someone that is interested.

 

i never had to touch the bushings again . I did however how to keep an eye on the clamp tho. There were time on my softail that id hit an unexpected bump and they would move a bit no matter how much they were torqued I ended up replacing the clamp and it pretty much solved the issue

 

I installed solid bushings. (they're not solid but have an inner spacer) on my new 14's.
The clamp doesn't hold tight enough against the leverage of pulling or pushing, so I had to install a locking type top clamp.
If you go this route, confirm you're buying the correct one as not all risers are the same.