4 or 5 hours to remove and replace depending on your skills.

 

Yep yet another Harley marketing trick. As you read the forum they are every where. Harley makes poor or ugly parts and we Harley fans rip them off and replace them with pretty and assumed better replacement parts. Almost every Harley part has an up grade for said part. I know, I have most of them on mine. It's just like being addicted. No one forced me and I'm not bitching, just saying what a concept Harley dreamed up.

Oh forgot. I replaced my fork sliders for same reason. They had drawn mosture and look like sh**. Not that bad if your good with wrenches. Oh yeh, got them from Harley.

 

Yep had the same problem, I ended up pulling the front wheel off and polishing the front forks, takes some patience but looks pretty good, good enough to get through another season, so I can concentrate on my engine and stereo mods

 

Just do an exchange and get them chromed.
Much less maintainence and looks great.

 

As others have said you could strip the remaining clear coat off,sand with various grades of sandpaper ending up @1200-1500 then polish with mothers mag& alum. polish. This got me buy for 2010 till this winter when i totally redid my front end. Its messy and time consuming,not chrome, but IMHO is a big improvement over the dull clearcoated lowers. This pic shows the stripper (paint&decal remover) doing its thing. Also the ocean air raises havoc with any bare metals :-(




after

 

Yeah its a utter pain in the *** to strip and polish, but when you dont want or cant spend the money its a good alternative

 

and the award goes to BRASSO !!!!!! im at work and unable to do a thorough job but the few minutes i took with a test of the Brasso is a 1000 % improvement !! ill crack a beer open and do a better job tonite but if i can maintain this appearance with the little bit of effort ive exerted over the course of a fewtimes a year it'll do. thanks guys. would never have thought of Brasso. love it here

 

a footenote here. 3m makes a headlite cleaner kit that has a foam applicator that fits in your drill. (23 bucks at pepboys) i used this with the Brasso and the forks look as new. spent a total of 30 minutes on this project. doing this on a "maintenance" type basis would definitley be a 5 min thing.