Alright guys so I’m a wanna be home mechanic and I have a 2020 streetglide. Ever since I bought it I’ve had a problem with something being twisted and causing the bike to not track straight. Came like this from Harley and they refused to do any warranty work to cover it saying I just dropped the bike. So the problem I’m having is when I ride down the road it feels as if my bars are pointed slightly to the right side just to keep the bike going straight. As well as that, my bike also seems to lean left when going straight sort of like I’m crab walking. I first thought it was the factory bars but after replacing I realized it in fact wasn’t. I just pulled the bike out after letting it sit for a while for winter and when I rode it I would have a problem where if I let go of the handle bars they would start to wobble until they got out of control. So far the only thing I’ve heard to try and fix this is to realign the front forks, check vertical and horizontal alignment in the rear. In doing so today I checked horizontal by measuring center to center on both sides from the rear axle to the swing arm bolt and everything seems even. I then removed the lower rear shock bolts and lowered the bike down just enough it would stand and measured it there, it was even. So am I measuring the vertical right? If I completely bolt everything back up after doing the vertical I have to mount the left side shock first then use pressure and weight of the bike to get the right in. When the bike is sitting on the jiffy from the rear the rear wheel looks as if its leaning hard left. Any thoughts? The photo added is on a bike lift and it just seems off to me, it gets exceedingly worse on the kick stand.

 

Is the problem that the forks need to be realigned to get the handle bars straight (that the bars are still straight), realigned?

Or have you done that, make sure that the rear rim axle is square in the rear swing arm on both sides (not other problems at noted below), and with your hand off the bars, the bike is pulling to one side.


If the later, you have new motor mounts in play
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Swing arm rubber mounts,
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Forks are not bent, tires not cupped, wheel bearings not going south, brakes pistons not sticking or anything else that would pull the bike to one side via friction, and bike is still pulling to one side with hands off the bars,

Then need to ditch the solid stabilizer link,
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And go to adjustable stabilizer link, to rotation cant align the engine/trans/swing arm (all are one piece bolted together that floats in the frame on the rubber mounts) back in tram line top to bottom with frame.








Hence right now,

Can not tell if the problem is the axle not square in the swing arm both sides, Or if the top of motor (with trans and swing arm connected to motor ) is pulled to the left via the solid stabilizer link, to cause the bottom of tire to the right of frame center line drop tram line isntead.

Note, never go by the rear fender, since don't know of any bike that HD managed to get the rear fender on true where the back tire should center with it in the first place, off the assembly line..

As for drive line cant truing of drive line to get it rotational tram top to bottom with frame, there are tools that you can use to hold the swingarm axle center of side plate openings, or there is the laser plumb vertical line trick with frame leveled, to laser down top of frame to rear tire, or even level on front tire with it straight up and down, then to back tire with frame level as well, to use the adjustable link to cant true the drive line with the frame.

And just a FYI, but not until 2006, did HD get the rear tire in line with the front tire on the touring bikes. IT the reason that HD went with the thinner drive belts, so they could pull the rear tire to the shifter side, to align the front and rear tire on the same tram line down the bike.

Short of that, then find a shop that has alignment/truing rack, so that can get the frame straight if bent, and get the drive line true with the frame in the end.