| Author | Message | ||
     Gunut75 |
Is this normal? The pic (albeit a crappy one) is a pic of the left rearward mounting hole in the subframe for the passenger brackets. What looks like a threaded insert seems to have come out of the frame rail a few turns. It does not move, and I cannot find any pics in the service manual of what it is supposed to look like. Can anyone else look at theirs to make sure I don't have to remove it and fix it? The corresponding hole for the right one is flush with the subframe rail.  | ||
| Arctic9r |
looks like a time-sert to me, must have been previously stripped. | ||
| Gunut75 |
Time-sert eh? I may have to take it out of there and put some lock-tite red on there. | ||
| Gunut75 |
Well, the time-sert failed. Not only that, but it's self locking feature failed. Now it is loose, and cannot be turned out of the hole. I can turn it from the position in the pic to about 1 full revolution farther into the frame fail. The time-sert website says they self lock because the threads on the lead on the OD of the insert are roll formed. The problem is that the time-sert was longer than the material it was threaded into. The roll form threads are out of the back of the hole. They are not hanging on to anything. I can turn the bushing into the rail till it bottoms out, but there is still 1/8 inch of the bushing sticking out of the rail where the passenger footrest frame bolts to. I can see how it got effed up before. When it did, whoever fixed it, put the wrong length of time-sert in there. They should have used one 1/8in. shorter. Next step; get it out of there and make a new plug for the rail, and fix it properly. What a PITA. At least it wont stop me from riding. The damn snow we got last night took care of that. |
