Cant seem to find the answer through searching, but on the pre 2000'FL bikes, is the rear tire centered in the fender? I know that total bike alignment can affect where the tire ends up, but where should it be?

On my 1998 it looks like it could move more to the pulley side, but the belt guard is already close to touching the tire, so it has me wondering

 

Does the bike wander or pull to one side going down the road, or is the problem that it just doesn't look right? If it handles OK, don't worry about it.

 

Put your bike on a lift and sight down the belt to see if it looks straight or if it's cocking to one side.. That should tell you if the wheel is centered or not. If you've had the wheel off you might have put the spacers on the wrong side too.

carl

 

Unless something is seriously catawampus, the wheel should be generally centered on the fender.

But the fender isn't really a reference point.

This is the vid I put together on alignment.

 

In my 1990 FLHS I have a 160 wide rear tyre (measures 167mm wide), which will only fit with the fender dead centre - I didn't think of that until after I had sorted out a wider wheel and tyre, but was relieved to find that all was well once it was installed! So I reckon a stock wheel should be pretty close.

 

The FLH chassis does carry the rear wheel seemingly offset to one side compared to the fender. This was done , according to my HD mechanic friend to offset the weight of the primary. I know my old 88 FLHS had the wheel offset almost a half an inch making it seem off center in the fender. Not knowing any better at the time I built my bike I made new spacers to center it when I installed the Ness wheels. It did cause pulley to swingarm clearance issues and eventually put it back where it was supposed to be.

 

Common for a wheel offset to the belt side, why I don't know. It's a process to move it over because the brake mounting bracket is the spacer on the right side, moved my wheel over when doing a 150 tire install but would leave it alone like Beemer said.

 

I'm playing with a multitude of issues which is why I asked...new wheels that were supposed to be for my year of bike, but spacers didnt fit and Harley cant no longer get the part number to try others, high speed wobble that when bettered by using mount adjustment via service manual alignment put the wheel hairs from the rotor side of the fender.

So I backed off the front mount stabilizer, removed top link, and spaced wheel myself using random spacers to get it centered....now I still need to eliminate the wobble that plagues this damn bike.

Thanks for the replies guys, just wanted to be sure close to center in the fender is intended, not way more offset to one side or the other