Need opinion/advice/help

[Tec35]

Hi

So I am a newer Spyder owner and was installing heated grips on my 2019 F3 base model. I should have stop once I got the grips on. I was tired but decided to push through. I started putting the top back on and i dropped a half inch screw between the frunk and frame into the engine area. I spent over an hour and half looking for it even took the frunk out. The question I have is should I rip the front of the bike apart to find the screw? If I do not and order a new screw, do I have to worry about the screw damaging anything? What does everyone think and yes I feel stupid for losing the screw and asking this.:banghead:

 

[Peter Aawen]

I wouldn't worry too much Tec, you aren't the first to have lost something into one of the 'black holes' that Spyders have in abundance, and you certainly won't be the last, either!! :gaah:

You could probably keep searching, possibly even for long enough to eventually find your lost screw - but it's very likely firmly sitting on top of one of the frame rails, on an under body tray, or somehow jammed or caught in/under there somewhere! So if you have the same experience as most of the rest of us who've lost a Spyder screw, then unless you can work out how to pick your Spyder up completely off the ground, flip it upside down, then shake vigorously, that screw is absobloodypositively G.O.N.E!! :shocked:

However, as most of the rest of us Spyder/Ryker owners with a few screws loose have found, they do tend to just disappear, never to be found again, & never cause any real problems or issues... so you should probably just learn from this experience, replace that loose screw, and move on knowing how NOT to lose a screw next time! :thumbup:

Or maybe you'll be content to just Ride On with a few screws loose regardless.... :dontknow: Your choice.

 

[canamjhb]

Welcome to the club. And we are many. Now you know that stuffing rags and towels over open black holes is a good defensive measure and time well spent..... Jim

 

[Tec35]

Thanks Peter and Jim, it is a learning experience. I appreciate all the help and the advice!!! I am going to order a new screw and be careful next time with stuffing all the black holes with rags. Also good to know I am not the only one with a few screws loose.:thumbup:

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

Thanks Peter and Jim, it is a learning experience. I appreciate all the help and the advice!!! I am going to order a new screw and be careful next time with stuffing all the black holes with rags. Also good to know I am not the only one with a few screws loose.:thumbup:

:agree: with both previous posters ….. you said " screw " …. if it didn't have a point , I would call it a bolt …. and I wouldn't worry - Period ……. I have learned from working on anything " if there are holes / spaces in the vicinity of where you are working …. take a few minutes to fill / cover them Before you start working …...jmho …. good luck …. Mike hyea:

 

[Tec35]

Thanks Mike, I believe it was a screw for the top plastic cover piece. I have learned my lesson and will spend the time to cover the holes.:thumbup:

 

[RICZ]

That's what I call a Jesus screw, because when that happens, I yell, JESUS, where'd it go!
I keep a wide variety of metric fasteners for that very reason - mostly.
Solution: Take a similar screw to your local Ace Hardware and get a match, or close to it. Don't buy one, it'll happen again. Don't ask how I know that.

 

[Tec35]

That's what I call a Jesus screw, because when that happens, I yell, JESUS, where'd it go!
I keep a wide variety of metric fasteners for that very reason - mostly.
Solution: Take a similar screw to your local Ace Hardware and get a match, or close to it. Don't buy one, it'll happen again. Don't ask how I know that.

:roflblack: You read my mind. I was going to order one, but I figured i would give Ace a try first after work.

 

[blacklightning]

I agree with the above. But, if it is a screw, be careful and take a look when you pull into and out of the garage. The last place that you want to find it is in your tire. I have had that to happen. I loose a screw in a dark place, it falls out after moving the bike/spyder a couple of times, and then the tire picks it up when I pull back into the garage.

 

[Tec35]

:agree: that is good advice my Spyder/tires only have 400 miles on them.

 

[Navydad]

When working on the Spyder or any vehicle for that matter a large WHITE towel is your best friend. I have saved many suicidal fasteners by putting my well used towel under/over/or around any black holes on my vehicles.

 

[RICZ]

+1 what Navydad wrote. In addition, I have my Spyder parked in the garage on an old area rug. Dropped fasteners don't bounce and roll off into oblivion and it's easier on the knees than bare concrete.

 

[Little Blue]

Area Rug/Carpet

:agree:....+2 and the area Rug. As others have said.

Good Luck on your Mission....:thumbup:

 

[Tec35]

I was installing Spyderpop RGB engine light today and found the missing screw up in the frame. I was laying on the ground running the wires underneath the frame,I looked up and there it was..:yes:

 

[RICZ]

You found you Jesus screw!!!