| Author | Message | ||
     Tankhead |
Ok. Kids are at their mother's. Sitting at home with this homework project hangin' over my head. Those of you who are snowed in and bored and have put on the racks on before, at approx. 12:00 today I will begin the build. If I have any questions I will be posting them here. If anyone is available I would appreciate the guidance. Tanks | ||
| Ratbuell |
You're just mounting stock racks to the bike? Easy-peasy. Put the side racks together with their crossbrace, on the floor. LOOSE. Do the disassembly of the bike per instruction sheet. Lay racks on the rear tire, and start the bolts at the passenger pegs - LOOSELY. Swing racks up to tail and start the bolts there - you guessed it, LOOSELY. Get all the pieces bolted on - I won't say it this time - and fiddle/fidget until it all lines up. Then tighten it all. Not like you can get to Home Depot at this point...but I exchanged all my hardware for Gr8 because I always overload  Worst case, you get it all installed...and if you want to swap stuff out just do it one bolt at a time. | ||
| Fordrox |
Ratbuell, I know you did'nt ride in to work today. if you did, where did you get the outrigger ski's and the studded tires from. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Work? Like we're open?? LOL | ||
| Tankhead |
Ok. side cases on. Brainiac sprayed the racks with bed liner so the 40 liter bags are uhhum a little snug. should the bottom squared off lip be inside the rack? | ||
| Tankhead |
top rack doesn't f'n line up. Pissed. the two top bolts into the handles. the racks are not far enough apart gosh darnit. | ||
| Ratbuell |
There should be an arched spreader bar that spans the racks, and goes beneath the tail. As well as a straight crosspiece that holds the top rack. And yes, if you look at the backside/inside/rack side of the bags, you can see a square shaped like the rack opening. It all goes inside the rack. | ||
| Court |
See #8   | ||
| Tankhead |
Yes I have the cross member brace in place. I guess I will just have to walk away for a day or two. That always works. Tanks guys. | ||
| Tankhead |
#13 on the throttle side does not line up. I got the clutch side on. Kept everything VERY loose but yet no go. I will wrestle tomorrow | ||
| Etennuly |
Do you have a small ratchet strap? Sometimes they only need to move a 1/16 of an inch, but you cannot hold it and insert the bolt at the same time. Let the strap do the hard part, while you thread the bolt. | ||
| Tankhead |
I am confused how the top rack gets support from the side racks. If it is because the side racks tie in to the foot peg assembly, how does that offer support to the top rack that doesn't attach anywhere to the side racks. Maybe because the side seat rails are all tied in together? Not sure but I will try your advice today Etennuly. tanks | ||
| Ratbuell |
Yes, the side racks support the seat rails (the "diving board" - see numerous other threads on rack installation and you'll see my reason for that phrase) by triangulation. Now instead of a single lever - the rails - you have a triangle - the rail/lever, the rear lower leg (taillight to passenger peg), and the front lower leg (footpeg to frame / base of seat rail / lever). The seat rails - and now the entire triangle - support the top rack. The side racks keep the seat rails from acting like the aforementioned diving board, allowing mounting of a topcase - slung way out back at the far end of that diving board - without letting it bounce up and down, flexing the seat rails...which would generally be considered a "bad thing". +1 on the ratchet strap idea...but if you have to pull it real hard/far, I'd do it off-bike so you're not sideloading the screw that you can get installed. If you don't have a strap, a small hydraulic floor jack and some anti-scratch rags could do the trick. Put one side under the jack, the other side on the jacking cup, and "jack it up" to spread 'em out. | ||
| Tankhead |
Hey Rat, Yeah I was actually referring to the threads about the diving board that you have written about. thanks for the clarification. I ended up installing the top rack with quite success. I had to loosen the bar under the seat to have everything line up. I too upgraded bolts when gathering bolts at the hardware store. Saved me some money. I hope everything sticks. For instance, I only installed the big washers with bolt to the foot peg arm assembly. It calls for a small on top of the large but I missed that in the instructions. Loctite on all bolts so I am hopeful that everything is golden. The 40's (liters) all around look great and will be quite useful for travel. (Message edited by tankhead on February 11, 2010) | ||
| Ratbuell |
Awesome. All you have left is PICTURES | ||
| Tankhead |
What happened to photobucket. Having a problem finding where to copy image to post here. Never a problem before. | ||
| Tankhead |
I found the copy part but when I copy and then open bad web to paste it, it doesn't paste it to the thread | ||
| Xb12xmike |
Hey Tank,... the problem is, you bought the wrong racks...the ones you have are supposed to be on MY bike!! good luck with the assembly. (Message edited by xb12xmike on February 12, 2010) | ||
| Xb12xmike |
crap...thats what I get for not reading the new posts before posting myself. (didn't see that they were installed) Good job. You can reduce the size and/or quality of your pics to fit the 80kb size to post directly on this forum. | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Xb12xmike, It's 103kb not 80kb. | ||
| Froggy |
300kb | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Mine always errors out if I go over 103kb. How do you go to 300 without being admin? | ||
| Froggy |
I wonder if Blake only upped it for Admins, try it again  | ||
| Tankhead |
No I mean nothing happens. Nothing. No message. Nope | ||
| Blake |
You gotta click on the "post message" button, on the preview page. Then you'll be asked to designate the file. | ||
| Blake |
To post image files that are already resident elsewhere on the web, simply use the \imagelink{paste URL of image file here} formatting tag. | ||
| Tankhead |
 here ya go | ||
| Ratbuell |
Very nice. Love the larger sidebags! | ||
| Tankhead |
Yeah Forties all around |
