| Author | Message | ||
     Rellim51 |
I took my PMs off a few weeks ago to polish them up for riding season. When I put the front wheel on today, the right side spacer doesn't seem to be seating up to the inner fork. It may have been this way before but I didn't notice it. Does this look normal?    | ||
| Smoke |
that looks correct. the axle pushes everything to the one side which puts the wheel in the center. tim | ||
| Jos51700 |
Yes. I usually compress the fork a couple of times to center everything up before tightening the pinch bolts because of this. HD actually has a measurement for centering the forks, but I've never seen such a spec for Buell. | ||
| Spiderman |
Upon closer inspection everything looks good from here... (Message edited by spiderman on March 26, 2008) | ||
| Werewulf |
on the harleys, you put a drill bit thru the hole on the axle after the large nut is tightened.. then you pull the leg until it touches the drill bit and tighten the cap screws...it will be centered by the brake rotor.. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Wulf, That would not be good practice with these bikes. Tighten the axel bolt and leave the cap screws loose. Put the bike on the ground, hold the front brake and compress and release the forks a couple of times. That will center the left leg. Then tighten the cap screws. It's not the brake rotor that's the problem, it's keeping the fork legs parallel that's important. | ||
| Kmbuell |
Are you sure the spacer isn't backwards? Shouldn't the narrow part fit into the bearing? Take another look and see if the bearing is correctly supported. | ||
| Jos51700 |
The "narrow part" is the axle. | ||
| Rellim51 |
Yup, the narrow part is in the bearing. |
