- Sun Sep 29, 2019 9:25 am
#85672
Finally managed to fit the "bash plate" yesterday and what a pallaver that was!
It needed "certain modifications", shall we say. I think when it was designed around an engine there can't have been a sump plug in it because the sump plug on mine fouled the inside by a few mm and prevented it fitting properly.
I had to cut a round hole to clear it (I believe Mr. H's bash plate is better and has this already cut out). Getting this in the correct place was quite tricky. Having done that (which wore out my hole saw despite using loads of cutting oil), I then had to alter the bend angle of the front of the plate and then all four lugs to get it to line up any where near. A shame and an annoyance because the powder coated finish looked very good - now it doesn't look quite so good, but then it's going to get bashed anyway. So far it's only been bashed with my lump hammer but it does look OK and is firmly attached.
One thing I noticed when I was doing this job. The footrest locating bar goes through a tubular spacer between two plates across the underside of the bike. Mine is loose. I suspect a washer or something must have gone astray and this probably explains why my footrests tend to rotate forwards when my weight is applied. Next job to sort that out, then I think I'm just about done.
It needed "certain modifications", shall we say. I think when it was designed around an engine there can't have been a sump plug in it because the sump plug on mine fouled the inside by a few mm and prevented it fitting properly.
I had to cut a round hole to clear it (I believe Mr. H's bash plate is better and has this already cut out). Getting this in the correct place was quite tricky. Having done that (which wore out my hole saw despite using loads of cutting oil), I then had to alter the bend angle of the front of the plate and then all four lugs to get it to line up any where near. A shame and an annoyance because the powder coated finish looked very good - now it doesn't look quite so good, but then it's going to get bashed anyway. So far it's only been bashed with my lump hammer but it does look OK and is firmly attached.
One thing I noticed when I was doing this job. The footrest locating bar goes through a tubular spacer between two plates across the underside of the bike. Mine is loose. I suspect a washer or something must have gone astray and this probably explains why my footrests tend to rotate forwards when my weight is applied. Next job to sort that out, then I think I'm just about done.
Built like a gun... could go BANG!