Free Lay Down Licence Plate.
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Free Lay Down Licence Plate.
I thought i would offer this tip as an alternative to spending a lot of $ just to angle your plate bracket. If you remove the bracket you will see there are 2 pieces. Throw the top piece away, replace the screws with hex bolts of the same size. Put the bracket in a vice or use vice grips and bend the base of the bracket flush with the bolt heads. Reinstall. Your plate will now be at an angle following the line of the fender. Hope this helps someone.
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I may post some pics later of finished projects.
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I thought i would offer this tip as an alternative to spending a lot of $ just to angle your plate bracket. If you remove the bracket you will see there are 2 pieces. Throw the top piece away, replace the screws with hex bolts of the same size. Put the bracket in a vice or use vice grips and bend the base of the bracket flush with the bolt heads. Reinstall. Your plate will now be at an angle following the line of the fender. Hope this helps someone.
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I've just done this to tide me over until I get a side mount. I reused the existing bolts and nuts, but found a couple of things:
Firstly, it was lucky I couldn't work out a way of bending the mount with the screws in it, as I realised afterwards that I would never have been able to tighten them.
Putting the nuts on the plate side means that you can hold them with a spanner in the (now very) small gap. There is easily enough space between the fender and the wheel (with stock shock setup on a fatboy at least) to get in with a stubby screwdriver to tighten them up.
Looks much better now, but not sure that the plate is being lit up properly by the plate lamp. Hope that won't attract attention until I have a more permanent solution...
Firstly, it was lucky I couldn't work out a way of bending the mount with the screws in it, as I realised afterwards that I would never have been able to tighten them.
Putting the nuts on the plate side means that you can hold them with a spanner in the (now very) small gap. There is easily enough space between the fender and the wheel (with stock shock setup on a fatboy at least) to get in with a stubby screwdriver to tighten them up.
Looks much better now, but not sure that the plate is being lit up properly by the plate lamp. Hope that won't attract attention until I have a more permanent solution...
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