I just got a new sissy bar, tried to install myself, but the crews at my rear fender are lock tide, used some spray for unlock them, used a torque wrench, got two out but I fu?%k the other two, tried and tried but they just dont want come out, asked for help at the dealership he told me I need to make a appointment next week and will cost me 4 hours!! ...anyone have any others ideas what i can do next? ...need help please!!

 

Hate to see you have to pay for 4 hours of labor to get a few bolts out...

What tools have you tried? Is your fender stock? Those bolts shouldn't bee so hard to get off and a regular wrench and socket should break them loose. If not try a breaker bar with a socket to get more leverage.

Maybe if you can post some pictures, it would help folks give you better info. Installing a sissy bar should be a snap.

 

yep i got the stock fender on my standard but the problem i got now is one of the bolt is completely gone, gonna try to post some pics

 

If they are stripped out take a 3/8 inch drill bit and drill the heads out. You don't have to drill in far, just far enough that you can take a hammer and knock the heads off the bolts. Pull the fender support cover off and you'll have about an inch of bolt to work with. I used vise grips but in order to get them to grip and allow me to unscrew the bolts I had to drill a small hole in the threads and bend a small allen wrench around the bolt. That gave the vise grips enough to hold onto. Those bolts can be a pain and have some kind of yellow lock tite. On the ones you haven't stripped you might try to heat them up using the tip of something like a soldering iron. That should heat up the bolt without messing with the powdercoat or chrome of the fender support cover. Hope that helps.

 

I don't think it takes a lot of heat. I've used a propane torch and just hit it back and forth with the torch to heat it up. If you don't hold the heat on it there shouldn't be any problem with the paint. If you do that they will come out pretty easy. Sounds like you're past that point though. +1 on drill the heads off. Make a pilot hole with a small bit, then redrill with a 5/16".

 

I had this same problem and used some of my old allen sockets and hammered them into the torq hole. If you can get one in there it might be enough to socket them out and adding a little bit of heat will help.

 

We need a "STICKY" on this problem. It takes a soldering gun to remove them. And when i say soldering gun i mean the one that looks like space gun. A pencil gun wont get the bolts hot enough. You have to press it onto the bolt so its hot enough you cant touch it. Then they will back right out. I got my gun at SEARS about 70 bucks. A fellow member told me about this...It works. I hate to this this happen.

 

thanks to everybody!! ....got off work ready to try some new ideas!! .

 

I had to use a back out set to get my bolts out the first time. Destroys the bolts, but I needed a longer set for my bags and sissy bar anyway. Needed a lot more leverage than my small torx wrench could muster without coming out of the hole.

 

on my fatboy lo i changed my torx bolts to chrome ones the torx bolts came out to easy lol