Hi,

I'm fixing up a wrecked 2003 Electra Glide with my Dad and we're just about done. The only issue remaining is that the caliper sits further onto the rotor than it looks like it should and it's causing the anti-rattle clip inside the caliper to rub. Since there is really no adjustment for just moving the caliper up 1/16 or 1/8 of an inch, what can be done? The caliper itself clears the rotor; just barely, but it does clear.

This is a new-used wheel (just saying it's not the one that was on the bike when it was wrecked) with new forks and has new wheel bearings and rotors installed. We thought the rotors may have been bent before we realized that the anti-rattle clip is what was rubbing.

Thanks in advance!

 

All is well now. Not sure if there's a way to delete this thread... hmmm...

 

Why don`t you tell us what the solution was?

 

Sure thing. It ended up being a pretty simple issue actually. Just a mix-up of parts. We had rotors that were meant for a newer Electra Glide and they were just slightly taller than what I needed for my '03.

We obtained a wheel for mine off of a friend of my Dad's and thought it was off of a similar year bike, but it seemed as though the one rotor was bent and we'd have to replace them. I bought a new set, matched them up to the part numbers of the rotors we removed, and figured life was good. Problem was, the part number I was matching them against was the WRONG part number. After some double-checking and a few wasted hours, everything is fine now.

Again, this was a wrecked bike that we were fixing up, so I didn't have a previously working rotor to check against. The original front wheel/rotor were toast in the accident.