Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
Thanks for the input, hopefully the basic wrench like Wally posted works.... I don't have anything to jack up the rear tire.
Anyone have a suggestion on what product to get to jack up the back?
Also I'd like something to keep the bike straight up when on the jiffystand, should I just use like a big piece of wood or do they actually make something for this?
Anyone have a suggestion on what product to get to jack up the back?
Also I'd like something to keep the bike straight up when on the jiffystand, should I just use like a big piece of wood or do they actually make something for this?
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
You can use a piece of wood but you better secure the bike with straps to something. Sure would be easy to tip over with a piece of wood under the kickstand.
You can get a cheap bike lift at Sears for about seventy bucks or the much nicer aluminum one for about one fifty. That and the lifting blocks from Harley and you're good to go.
HeHe,once you start buying tools,it's like buying chrome,it never ends.
Good Luck
Tom
You can get a cheap bike lift at Sears for about seventy bucks or the much nicer aluminum one for about one fifty. That and the lifting blocks from Harley and you're good to go.
HeHe,once you start buying tools,it's like buying chrome,it never ends.
Good Luck
Tom
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
ORIGINAL: itznin
Anyone have a suggestion on what product to get to jack up the back?
Anyone have a suggestion on what product to get to jack up the back?
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
if u can adjust your shocks by hand move them to the highest setting and u should be fine...
if not just have a buddy lift up on the rear fender enough for the bolt to clear the tire...thats how i got mine on...
if not just have a buddy lift up on the rear fender enough for the bolt to clear the tire...thats how i got mine on...
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
ORIGINAL: itznin
Thanks for the help.... Just keep in mind I'm new, so when you say things like unbolt the shocks,
I really have never done such a thing, so I don't even know what that entails.
I realize you unbolt them but I don't know how involved it is, etc....
I will attempt it today.
Thanks for the help.... Just keep in mind I'm new, so when you say things like unbolt the shocks,
I really have never done such a thing, so I don't even know what that entails.
I realize you unbolt them but I don't know how involved it is, etc....
I will attempt it today.
Please record the operation and post back here. Should be interesting.
edited to add: picture of the Sears scoot (motorcycle) lift is in my gallery.
mud
RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
I've done the same mounting kit on my FXDWG. I didn't slot out the holes, because I didn't want it to rust. It was a pain to get under the fender, but I just used an allen head on a 1/4 inch ratchet. The worst part of it is having to use Torex heads, and allen heads. why can't things be a little simpler ?
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
ORIGINAL: TOMMAY
Mud,you have no heart.
Good Luck
Tom
Mud,you have no heart.
Good Luck
Tom
itznin is asking legitimate questions, and wrenching your ride is a real good thing.
I see that you offered several good approaches,
someone recomended a car jack (don't do it),
wally showed what a wrench looks like.
I wanna see the video.
"I highly doubt I have a wrench that is going to get under the fender, what do you recommend I get?"
itznin - make some friends up in your neck of the woods, and one of them will surely lend some insight.
Buy a set of combination wrenches, allen wrenches, torx heads, scrudrivers,
3/8 ratshit and sockets, ditto 1/2 inch. That's for starters.
Blue LocTite.
Service manual is really a must.
A bike lift, Sears has one that is more than acceptable.
You'll use this for washing the LowRider as well.
Go slow, pay attention, be careful.
mud
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
Mud,I didn't really mean it when I said you had no heart. I was just thinking of a video of removing the shock bolts with no lift under the bike.
Hell,if the guy lived close to me I'd let him roll into my garage and use my tools and watch him do the work while I drank beer.
Good Luck
Tom
Hell,if the guy lived close to me I'd let him roll into my garage and use my tools and watch him do the work while I drank beer.
Good Luck
Tom
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RE: Tool needed to install Sissy Bar Bracket
ORIGINAL: mudpuddle
someone recomended a car jack (don't do it),
someone recomended a car jack (don't do it),
I said that I used a car jack BUT that I also would not recommended anyone else doing it. It worked to get the wheel off the ground, but there are obvious safety issues...