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ITEM: AO451620
04.21.2023
Works good after a few modifications
| 2005 GL1800 30th Anniversary with standard riding pegs. I've had heel-toe shifters on my last three Harleys since 1981, so I've been wanting one for the Wing as the stock shifter has been messing up my riding boots. There are some issues with this item that need to be addressed. First thing I did was to grease the pivot bushing and bushing spacer -plus the two chrome washers to keep them in place and for lubrication. The pivot bolt is an M8 chromed hex, but the hex head is 1/2". I replaced that with a stainless steel M8 socket head cap bolt (Allen). The pegs supplied are bottom of the barrel and the three rubber rings do not fit tightly enough. They will roll under your boot causing non-solid shifting. They use a chrome Allen head (4mm) bolt through the peg and into the shifter plate, but have SAE threads at 5/16-24 to thread into the shifter plate, which is a good thing as those are standard Harley shifter peg threads. As others have mentioned, the front peg is too large for this application. I removed the front shifter peg body but retained the supplied Allen bolt and installed a stainless steel bushing and two Delrin spacers on each side of the bushing to create a shifter peg with a smaller OD. I replaced the rear shifter peg completely using a black knurled peg from Amazon with a built in 5/16-24 stud. As to the plate, it is some pretty chrome and solid piece; however the factory only welded half the bushing used for the pivot bolt before they chromed it. Likely for appearance reasons, but they should have done a full weld. The weld is hidden behind the plate, so you don't see it. The final modification I did was to use a copper sleeve over the stock shifter peg rubber. This sleeve fits inside of the slot of the shifter plate and distributes the shifting force evenly instead of compressing a small area of the rubber shifter peg. I applied grease to the ID of the slot and top/bottom of the copper sleeve where it contacts the shifter plate slot. The result of these modifications created a much more solid shifting. I did notice that the upper area of the shifter plate slot does hit my exhaust manifold covers, but they do flex. There is now a wear mark in those covers. The only other thing I may do is to install a needle bearing in place of the shifter plate bushing. |
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