I have Kuryakyn foot pegs with heel stirrups. Today I noticed my right heel stirrup slipped down some, maybe an inch. I thought my heel stirrup lock nut had slipped.

When I got home I got down and checked it out further, but the heel stirrup nut was tight. I have the standard H.D. Dyna forward controls. What had happened was the footrest mount clevis had turned counter clockwise some. The clevis mounting bolt seemed tight, but the clevis had just turned some. I guess I somehow put more weight on it today than anytime before. (the clevis is the U shaped brace that the peg slides in and bolts to)

But what is confusing me is when I put a wrench the clevis itself, it will turn both ways (if you pull hard enough) about maybe 1/8 turn and then it stops. What is it that makes it stop ?

My bike came with forwards so I don't know the innards of it. I guess I could pull it all apart but figured you guys would know about this. Anyhow I guess I will just make sure it's on the bottom of it's rotation and then set the heel stirrups to that.

 

Maybe there is some kind of burr that catches and stops the rotation. My boards are mounted to a single clevis, like your stirrups, and they turned once when I sort of stood on them while driving up a guys whooped out dirt driveway.

It's best to just remove the bolts, lock tight them, then torque them down good. It also doesn't hurt to first chase the threads as the chroming seems to gall some of them up, preventing a good torquing.

 

That mount will move a little if you put enough preasure on it. Don't know what stops it i've never taken it apart yet.

 

Thanks for the replies. The exploded view of the Forwards PDF shows a shaft with a flat key on each end. But can't really tell why it would allow movement.

If I get in early enough this afternoon I am going to pull it all apart and just look at it. It's got my curiousity now.

 

Well I started pulling it apart and got to the clevis mount bolt which is a Torx head. It seems to be too small for a T45 and a T40 is a bit too loose ?

Do they sell a torx in between T40 and T45 ? I haven't been able to find any.

 

maybe it's a metric?

 

Well that shows how dumb I am, I thought Torx was Torx and there was no SAE or Metric, just Torx.

In any case the two torx screws on the base of the mount are definitely T45, it fits in snug and sinks all the way in. But the clevis screw is a little off and won't let the T45 sink in much at all. I'm just gonna let it go. I was only taking it apart to see how it worked. I just rotated the clevis travel all the way counter clockwise so my stirrup will not sink again. Made it where I can't quite get the Kuryakyn stirrup adjustment threads to match the left side, it's either a little much or a little less. But they are close enough. I will just forget about it until I have a real reason to get it off.