Harley trike head bearings

[tingrin]

Does anyone know how tight the head bearings are on a Harley trike .I know on my 07 ultra classic the front end goes 3 rotations to center in the swing-by but now after converting my bike to a trike and changing the triple tree I need the new swing by. Does anyone have the spec???

 

[mopar]

I've been told 1 swing for a trike.

 

[tingrin]

ultraboy
Does that means 1 swing back to center ?
Thanks for the info . I am doing your front end change over with triple trees and new longer forks and all parts are in and ready to finish project.

 

[1550vt]

I went through all this with Dave (Ultraboy) months ago when he gave me the spec. and mine stops after around 3/4 swing and it's doing just fine. No wobble on either end of the speed chart.

I think the point is that it needs to be a "little" tighter and if it's a 1/2, 3/4 or 7/8 swing....probably won't matter.

I had ran across a thread somewhere a while back concerning TG owners that had a "clunk" in the steering head. The bearings in some of them were loose enough to clunk. They dropped the nut retainer plate (at least in the set of trees I received), so you need to install that off your old trees. Dave goes through all this in his article and i would be sure and install that retainer.

 

[tingrin]

Thanks for all the help. Now i have to start getting it together.