Swingarm bushing
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On my 1st 2004 Road king I had a wobble that I could reproduce at will under the right loadout on the bike, it was manageable but uncomfortable. I went over the bike with a fine toothed comb and made sure everything was up to spec per the service manual. All I found was the swingarm pivot was loose a little bit but it made no difference. This 2004 was equipped with aftermarket shocks also.
It was instantly fixed and never returned after the install of the Glide Pro stuff. I did a very lengthy write up which I posted here and it is still on the Glide Pro site under my name.
After that install and my riding buddies learning about the wobble they became concerned and either threw 3rd links or something at the bikes or we went through them. I even went so far as to load them as I did mine when the wobble showed itself, of the half dozen bikes I farted with only one exhibited any sort of wobble issue. A few of them elected to go the Glide Pro route after riding my bike on my test loops with me on theirs. All bikes I did the install on showed some very noticeable improvements in overall feel of tightness to the handling, as much as you can with the pure **** front fork triple tree design.
Fast forward to a couple years ago and I am on another 2004 Road King which also had a vague looseness to the overall handling with only 17k on the bike. I went through it checking everything and again found a loose swingarm pivot but tightening made no real difference. I obtained another Glide Pro from a fellow via a generous gift and this time it was the whole shebang with front motormount too. Again just the new shaft and bushing setup made a huge improvement, I rode it a couple thousand miles before swapping the new front mount and was rather surprised at the difference from this as well.
I have heard similar results with the Sta Bo stuff too.
As for rear shocks I am a cheapskate these last several years and just cannot afford new shocks so I drained, flushed and refilled my existing ones and again was very surprised with the positive results, they are sure not Ohlins but are quite a bit better than they were stock.
I hope you find your issue.
It was instantly fixed and never returned after the install of the Glide Pro stuff. I did a very lengthy write up which I posted here and it is still on the Glide Pro site under my name.
After that install and my riding buddies learning about the wobble they became concerned and either threw 3rd links or something at the bikes or we went through them. I even went so far as to load them as I did mine when the wobble showed itself, of the half dozen bikes I farted with only one exhibited any sort of wobble issue. A few of them elected to go the Glide Pro route after riding my bike on my test loops with me on theirs. All bikes I did the install on showed some very noticeable improvements in overall feel of tightness to the handling, as much as you can with the pure **** front fork triple tree design.
Fast forward to a couple years ago and I am on another 2004 Road King which also had a vague looseness to the overall handling with only 17k on the bike. I went through it checking everything and again found a loose swingarm pivot but tightening made no real difference. I obtained another Glide Pro from a fellow via a generous gift and this time it was the whole shebang with front motormount too. Again just the new shaft and bushing setup made a huge improvement, I rode it a couple thousand miles before swapping the new front mount and was rather surprised at the difference from this as well.
I have heard similar results with the Sta Bo stuff too.
As for rear shocks I am a cheapskate these last several years and just cannot afford new shocks so I drained, flushed and refilled my existing ones and again was very surprised with the positive results, they are sure not Ohlins but are quite a bit better than they were stock.
I hope you find your issue.
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