Front fender... posessed?

burvis · Post by **burvis** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:04 pm

I may get heaps of abuse for this question, but if anyone else has encountered this, I'd appreciate some insight, I'm stumped. I'm restoring a 1967 cb77 superhawk, and the front fender fit beautifully when it came off, and now sees to have changed shape somehow.

More detail: I removed the front fender without using force, gently tapped out some mild dents at the front tip and rear tip, buffed out some rust and repainted. The fender was off the bike for about 6 months while I went through the engine completely. When it was time to build it back up, everything went swimmingly until I had to reattach the front fender. I attached the center mounts and the front and rear stabilizers wouldn't line up. In fact they appeared to be about an inch too long. If I bolt up the stabilizers, I can just force the center mount into position, but the front and rear edges of the fenders are too far off the wheel, and it looks like the wrong part. The cable stays are in the right place, so it's not on backwards, and it did not get mangled in storage. And there's no way it's not the fender that came off the bike, it's the only bike I have!

If I'm overlooking something obvious, or if anyone has encountered this, please enlighten me.

LOUD MOUSE · Post by **LOUD MOUSE** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:05 am

Did you replace the sliders?. .........lm

burvis wrote:I may get heaps of abuse for this question, but if anyone else has encountered this, I'd appreciate some insight, I'm stumped. I'm restoring a 1967 cb77 superhawk, and the front fender fit beautifully when it came off, and now sees to have changed shape somehow.

More detail: I removed the front fender without using force, gently tapped out some mild dents at the front tip and rear tip, buffed out some rust and repainted. The fender was off the bike for about 6 months while I went through the engine completely. When it was time to build it back up, everything went swimmingly until I had to reattach the front fender. I attached the center mounts and the front and rear stabilizers wouldn't line up. In fact they appeared to be about an inch too long. If I bolt up the stabilizers, I can just force the center mount into position, but the front and rear edges of the fenders are too far off the wheel, and it looks like the wrong part. The cable stays are in the right place, so it's not on backwards, and it did not get mangled in storage. And there's no way it's not the fender that came off the bike, it's the only bike I have!

If I'm overlooking something obvious, or if anyone has encountered this, please enlighten me.

burvis · Post by **burvis** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:31 am

no, I didn't do anything to the forks or front brake/wheel. Mystifying.

LOUD MOUSE · Post by **LOUD MOUSE** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:48 am

PICS????????????????..............lm

burvis wrote:no, I didn't do anything to the forks or front brake/wheel. Mystifying.

davomoto · Post by **davomoto** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:23 pm

Sounds like you may have a fender meant for the steel sliders. A pic would be most helpful, especially showing the top mount on fender.

davomoto

rrietman · Post by **rrietman** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:51 pm

if you do turn out to have a fender for the steel sliders, and need one for the alloy sliders. I would like to trade my alloy version for your steel version. I am needing a front fender for the steel slider set up.
TIA
Randy

fallingpines305 · Post by **fallingpines305** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:40 pm

It may be possible that you are installing the fender backwards.

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