Son of a *%**$ I found a problem with my Fatcat and my tranny bolts!!!
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Son of a *%**$ I found a problem with my Fatcat and my tranny bolts!!!
So's I took apart my scoot to change out all the chrome covers to my new black powdercoated ones (I'll have a separate thread on those) and I found the two bottom bolts that hold the bracket onto the tranny where the exhaust connects were freaking missing......they were there when I installed the Fatcat so I know they must've come out since then. Anyhow, I also found that the rear brake pedal lever has been rubbing into the Fatcat and wore down the lever and gouged the damn Fatcat! Thank God it hasn't rubbed through totally. I'm gonna have a bead of weld put on the gouge, grind it smooth and paint the damn thing with black stove paint since you won't see it anyway. I have the Fatcat tab installed under the tranny bracket tab so I don't know if I had it on top if it would have been farther away or if the bracket is too short. I may end up making a bracket too. See pics.
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Sometimes when we install things we just do not look close enough to catch small things.
We look and think that's enough clearance and find out it isn't because we forget to go back later and recheck. It really is easy to do.
When I installed my pcv and auto tune I noticed my mounting bracket looked funny and checked by hand (the rear cylinder on true duals) looked and felt good. End up having to remove the rear cylinder to get the new 02 sensor in and found the bracket had been broke for some time.
You can handle it and perhaps this will help someone else out in the future.
Think I will go check mine just in case.
In God we Trust
dd
We look and think that's enough clearance and find out it isn't because we forget to go back later and recheck. It really is easy to do.
When I installed my pcv and auto tune I noticed my mounting bracket looked funny and checked by hand (the rear cylinder on true duals) looked and felt good. End up having to remove the rear cylinder to get the new 02 sensor in and found the bracket had been broke for some time.
You can handle it and perhaps this will help someone else out in the future.
Think I will go check mine just in case.
In God we Trust
dd
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UPDATE-
D&D wanted the head pipe back so they could hook it up in a jig to make sure that the pipe was straight. Sent it back on their dime. They jigged it up and found the pipe to be what they described as "a little off" but they didn't think that would make it rub on the brake lever. They also found that the tab welded on where it connects to the tranny bracket was "bent" or miswelded. In short, they are shipping me a new head pipe at no cost to me. Pipe shipping today. Of course it is a 4 day jaunt from Fort Worth to VT and it will be 70+ degrees this weekend and I don't have a scoot! Oh well, at least I'm happy with D&D's service and response to the situation. I bought the pipe new back in 07.
D&D wanted the head pipe back so they could hook it up in a jig to make sure that the pipe was straight. Sent it back on their dime. They jigged it up and found the pipe to be what they described as "a little off" but they didn't think that would make it rub on the brake lever. They also found that the tab welded on where it connects to the tranny bracket was "bent" or miswelded. In short, they are shipping me a new head pipe at no cost to me. Pipe shipping today. Of course it is a 4 day jaunt from Fort Worth to VT and it will be 70+ degrees this weekend and I don't have a scoot! Oh well, at least I'm happy with D&D's service and response to the situation. I bought the pipe new back in 07.
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Take a set a pipes off a bike in the service dept for the weekend. Shhhhh....nobody will know. 
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