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hog70
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Help please. I'm not sure if this is a real issue or I'm just looking for problems that aren't there.
Bike is an Evo softail 1999 done about 50K. Running fine and was last serviced by a dealer about 5k ago. I took the back wheel out, mainly to give everything in that area a good clean and polish but also to replace the rear sprocket with a chrome one I picked up in a dealer sale. I didn't touch the rear wheel adjusters, but removed the brake, wheel spindle and spacers etc and carefully dropped the wheel. I replaced the pulley after making sure everything was clean, used loctite and the correct torque etc. I inspected and washed the belt, no disernable wear or damage.
Replaced the wheel, again without disturbing the adjusters so it should have gone back with the same alignment it came out. Since it was fairly free (having no brake yet) I spun it. Spinning backwards the belt runs true, without any trace of fouling on the sides of the pulley. However if I spin the wheel forwards within half a dozen turns the belt creeps to the outside edge of the pulley and I can hear it grating ever so slightly as it catches the inside of the pulley outside rim. On looking more carefully at the pulley it would appear the new one has a more defined shoulder where the old one is slightly chamfered in the inside of the outside rim.
If I back off the right hand rear wheel adjuster 3 flats (ie half a turn) the belt now runs true, but at the expense of putting the wheel slightly out of alignment.
Previously I've changed the rear tyre a couple of times without giving a thought to the rear wheel alignment other than to make sure the adjusters were not disturbed and never had a problem. If I hadn't had a go at spinning the wheel this time I would probably be non the wiser. But now I'm paranoid about shredding the belt in the first few miles if I really have got a problem.
Any advice would be most gratefully received.
Bike is an Evo softail 1999 done about 50K. Running fine and was last serviced by a dealer about 5k ago. I took the back wheel out, mainly to give everything in that area a good clean and polish but also to replace the rear sprocket with a chrome one I picked up in a dealer sale. I didn't touch the rear wheel adjusters, but removed the brake, wheel spindle and spacers etc and carefully dropped the wheel. I replaced the pulley after making sure everything was clean, used loctite and the correct torque etc. I inspected and washed the belt, no disernable wear or damage.
Replaced the wheel, again without disturbing the adjusters so it should have gone back with the same alignment it came out. Since it was fairly free (having no brake yet) I spun it. Spinning backwards the belt runs true, without any trace of fouling on the sides of the pulley. However if I spin the wheel forwards within half a dozen turns the belt creeps to the outside edge of the pulley and I can hear it grating ever so slightly as it catches the inside of the pulley outside rim. On looking more carefully at the pulley it would appear the new one has a more defined shoulder where the old one is slightly chamfered in the inside of the outside rim.
If I back off the right hand rear wheel adjuster 3 flats (ie half a turn) the belt now runs true, but at the expense of putting the wheel slightly out of alignment.
Previously I've changed the rear tyre a couple of times without giving a thought to the rear wheel alignment other than to make sure the adjusters were not disturbed and never had a problem. If I hadn't had a go at spinning the wheel this time I would probably be non the wiser. But now I'm paranoid about shredding the belt in the first few miles if I really have got a problem.
Any advice would be most gratefully received.
