We set up a wide-Davidsson Sportster

We are going to replace the nijas of origin with a Wide Tija Kit To enhance the front of our motorcycle, providing a more "fat" and robust appearance.
To achieve our goal we will use one of the many existing kits in the market, of the "Bolt On" type, that is, that it is installed without making any modification, and brings everything necessary for its assembly.

The kit
The pieces that make up the kit are the upper and lower shell, the axis of the same, the new axis of the longest wheel, and two sets of separators. One is for the brake disc, since by increasing the distance between the bars and the wheel the brake clamp is also distanced and in this way the lateral displacement is corrected. The other separators perform the same function but holding the fender, thus allowing it to locate it in the same original position with respect to the wheel.

The preparation
The first thing we have to do to mount the kit is to raise the front of the motorcycle so that the set of forks and wheel is free, and then be able to disassemble it by taking out the axis of it. We will also take the opportunity to disassemble the fender and the brake clamp.

We continue with the disassembly loosening the 4 Torx head screws that hold the bars of the forks and reaching this point we loosen the bolts that hold the handlebar towers and we can already loosen the upper screw of the axis of the tokers to extract them.

We started riding
The next step is to extract the lower bearing from the original beal (if deteriorated we will replace it) and install it on the axis of the new beal, but not before conveniently lubricating, from the inside out, we have done it with a creator of bearings .

We take the same steps with the upper bearing, and install the new scams following the reverse order to disassembly and respecting the tightening pairs of the Harley-Davidson service manual.

The bars must excel a few millimeters at the top.

Then we have to disassemble the wheel brake disc and install the separator

and screw up the album on it. For these needs we continue with the tightening pairs and assembly sequences indicated in the workshop book of the model we work on.

After installing the wheel in its location we only need to mount the brake clamp and the fender, using the separators provided in the kit.

Completion and adjustment
We make sure that we have followed all the steps and verify that the brake works correctly in our new striker, much more imposing and we take a last step consisting of adjusting the slack of the direction so that it is neither very tight or too loose.

This last step is critical, because its correct execution will depend that the motorcycle direction behaves correctly. Again we follow the manual to the letter to check this adjustment.
As always, the final step consists of a road test where we will verify that everything works correctly and at the same time we can enjoy our new forward Wide Glide.

Frank Burguera

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