Anyone have a good video/link for lower exchange on the 14's. Shop manual is slighlty confusing and says you need several HD specific tools to do the job(lower holder, oil seal installer, oil level check tool). Trying to do this all myself to save on the $1200 my dealer wanted to charge on labor for a bunch of work.

For the folks that did the wheel swap did you install new wheel bearings or reuse? I would think new bearings aren't a bad idea with the force exerted on them when removing...

 

New wheel bearings. Relatively inexpensive peace of mind overall.

Couple hard to find specialty tools on the '14+

 

Other than a 12mm & 19MM allen sockets and a fork seal driver - what do you really HAVE to have?

 

No issues on the allen sockets/keys, but I would assume the seal driver is an important piece to the puzzle.

I am doing bars and chroming a bunch of parts. I am going to be angry if I can do it all except the lowers and have to pay harley a ton of labor for one tool. Maybe I will just pull them off the bike and have them do the teardown and reassembly....

 

I like it. Did you do the chrome exchange or buy it from harley?

 

Very nice looking bike!

We offer chrome wheels, polished discs & forks as part of our chrome exchange.

A small difference would be that we smooth out the ridges in-between the spokes when we polish the wheels prior to chroming them. Another notable difference is that all of our work is done here in USA.

We also offer wheel installation kits that are less expensive than the kits HD sells, and ours include Dyna-Beads for balancing, so that you do not need to use any ugly wheel weights on your new chrome wheel.

Here is a pic that was just sent me from one of our clients.

 

I used a piece of pvc pipe to set the seals. I cut vees in it so that it collapse. It worked fine

 

How hard is it to install wheel bearings? I have the manual but don't always get a good sense of difficulty just from reading

 

With the right tool - very easy

Without the right tool, very easy................to screw up.

Buy the tool - got one from Heartland and it works great.

 

There is a tool made by JIMS that works pretty well, it's around $300.

We use a hydraulic press along with several custom made tools that allow us to evenly press the bearings into their seats.

If you need bearings please check out our wheel installation kits. They are less expensive than buying from HD and ours include a Dyna-Bead wheel balancing kit so you do not have to have ugly weights on your wheel. You can check the kits out here.