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Ah yes the kick stand spring blues, known to whip a newbies *** every time.
They are by design a pain in the *** to change just so they won't get a hard shock and bounce out by themselves. Wrestled my share of them too bud welcome the the club.
l have an 03 FLHTCUI. I took these pictures tonight. Frame insertion
Had it oriented properly, and installing it was actually easy using the "swing it forward" method. As I stated, the issue was that the spring ends were bent so far that it would not allow them to enter the holes. Once I opened up the hooks everything fell into place. After looking at the spring from New Castle HD I see that most vendors have the applications wrong. If the spring that arrives looks like the one in the picture at New Castle, I should be golden...IF it is the proper length. Like I said, all the exploded views I looked at show a hole in the mounting bracket. Mine doesn't have one.
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