F***in fairing Bolts!

[dino3310]

must be a knack or a tool for the job,cunty little thing i'm fustrated just thinking about it.TriBoy on line he might know how to get the little fucker.

[Bikernereid]

Leave the Suzukis alone you are the HONDA owner who can't get his shit together and sort out his bike!!

No idea mate, got everything undone now and just trying to wriggle the airduct covers out of the airbox/tank cover and then the whole front should come off!

Else I might just use the tried and trusted Suzuki fairing removal method and go throw it into a fence somewhere!

[marty]

messers boeing and beechcraft uses 1000's of these to hold interiors on in their aircraft. the secret is 1. the screw type, and 2. how tight they are done up.

cut the rubber off around the nut with a razor blade. that's all that's stopping it coming through the hole. it sounds like someone has used the wrong pitch screw and cross threaded it.

of you want some replacements, let me know. i should have some stainless phillips head stainless screws for them too.

otherwise, you could use a rivnut (need an insert tool), or an anchor nut (need a tool to fit) or dzus fastner (need tools to fit receptacle/dzus)

[sAsLEX]

when and if you get it out

Well the nut was not spinning..... so off with the fucker..... except my pliers weren't quite up to the job...... but a pair of poly grips squeezing the pliers got through it in the end!





So it will likely be Dzus fasteners if I can find some somewhere tomorrow....... where in North Shore? RipCO?

But there is one left to come out that isnt accessible with the pliers/poly grip combo..........

[sAsLEX]

ah fuckit...... last bolt wasnt able to be access by the pliers and after soaking overnight with crc it still wasn't budging so had to cut it off with the angle grinder....... note to self next time use something large and mettalic as a heat sink to avoid melting your pristine fairings! Was only a small bit which isn't too bad but will require some plastic welding now as it is through the hole for fastening the fairing.........


Caldwells on William Pickering seem like the best place to get DZUS fasteners but they weren't open today..........

[sAsLEX]

Well must thank Great Grandma for the hankies I got for Christmas, they were just the thing to wipe melting plastic off my soldering iron! The small issue of melted fairing bolt hole has now been rectified.

NOw all there is left to do this weekend is clean the chain and the front sprocket, clean the bike, put the bike back together, change the oil, find/break something else to do......