Passenger Backrest Installation Warning

[DrJohn]

I don't know if it was just the parts I got or the cold weather. But, the locktite that was on the bolts was hard as concrete. One of the bolts got stuck. I stripped the head trying to get it out. I had to drill out the head and replace all the bolts with stainless steel and added lock washers.

John

 

[cmarsala]

LOCTITE

I don't know if it was just the parts I got or the cold weather. But, the locktite that was on the bolts was hard as concrete. One of the bolts got stuck. I stripped the head trying to get it out. I had to drill out the head and replace all the bolts with stainless steel and added lock washers.

John

Sounds like it was assembled using red Loctite, which is almost like using cement. You might want to put blue Loctite which will keep the bolt in but make it easy to remove.:doorag:

 

[djhobin]

Loctite

See the You Tube Video that Lamonster did when he removed the pegs on an F3. He heated the Bolts carefully with a hand torch. It loosens the Loctite so you can remove the bolt without stripping it.

Dennis

 

[SpyderGTL]

I stripped the head on a foot peg attach bolt last spring when I bought some floorboards for my F3 at Spyderfest. Rode home from Springfield with one floorboard and one foot peg. I think it's fair to say that those bolts had a liberal amount of blue loctite on them... It would have also helped if they were cap screws, as well as Torx heads...

 

[DrJohn]

I stripped the head on a foot peg attach bolt last spring when I bought some floorboards for my F3 at Spyderfest. Rode home from Springfield with one floorboard and one foot peg. I think it's fair to say that those bolts had a liberal amount of blue loctite on them... It would have also helped if they were cap screws, as well as Torx heads...

That must have hurt!

John