Modding Drivers Backrest To Lower IT?
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Road Master
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Modding Drivers Backrest To Lower IT?
Has anyone tried with success to rework the mechanism that slides into a HD adjustable backrest to make it even lower than the lowest hole position drops it to?
I bought a used backrest and need to pull the pad off and make some repairs within it. I'd like to drop it so that it's another 1-1.5" lower than it normally can go, so that it sits closer to the seat top.
I know...another stupid idea, but I'm full of them.
I bought a used backrest and need to pull the pad off and make some repairs within it. I'd like to drop it so that it's another 1-1.5" lower than it normally can go, so that it sits closer to the seat top.
I know...another stupid idea, but I'm full of them.
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Has anyone tried with success to rework the mechanism that slides into a HD adjustable backrest to make it even lower than the lowest hole position drops it to?
I bought a used backrest and need to pull the pad off and make some repairs within it. I'd like to drop it so that it's another 1-1.5" lower than it normally can go, so that it sits closer to the seat top.
I know...another stupid idea, but I'm full of them.
I bought a used backrest and need to pull the pad off and make some repairs within it. I'd like to drop it so that it's another 1-1.5" lower than it normally can go, so that it sits closer to the seat top.
I know...another stupid idea, but I'm full of them.
Cut a section out of the post and get welded or inside the backrest itself I burned a hole in the plastic with soldering iron and shoved the post up as high as it would go, jammed some scrap behind the bolt to hold it. Still using it 3 years later.
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I cut & welded two inches lower. Flat bar style (not round rods). First cut at the factory weld, so my weld blended & is hidden. I still have two inches of vertical adjustment. Man I can't believe how horrible it looked before even on the lowest setting. Who designs these things ?
Anyway, when you prep the metal to rejoin, lightly bevel both pieces 360 deg. where they butt together for good weld penetration.
Anyway, when you prep the metal to rejoin, lightly bevel both pieces 360 deg. where they butt together for good weld penetration.
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2" lower will be nice
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