Front Forks

[MPF1959]

Originally Posted by yorkshire_bloke

Touring forks won't fit as the forklegs are behind the yoke stem and besides other isues will hit the tank. FL softails forks slightly in front of yoke stem and will hit tank unless you reduce fork lock. Wide Glide front end is a straight swap yoke wise, but will not take the tins from a fl softail. You will need extended forks for both the wide glide and fl softails and to keep twin front brakes will need fork bottoms from a fl tourer. The wheel you want to use is not a straight swap as roadking/tourers have 10" ctr/ctr fork legs and fl softails have 9.5" . Most of the above can be sorted if you have the time and equipment. The easy option is a front end from the likes of sjp who make a chunky front end for fxd's.
hope this helps
kev

It helps a lot Kev ta, I can see from this that sticking with HD stuff dont nessesarily make the job smoother, which is what I was wondering as theres better forks off Jap bikes and brakes come to that.