Dropped bolt. Need advice.
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Had something similar with the dowels on the starter - wasted 2 hours looking/cursing and then reverse. Carried on with the job only to discover later that I couldn't see it for look'n, course this was after I drove 30 minutes to buy a replacement. HD seems to use #27 torx a lot, get a hand impact driver for $20 - no problem. Likewise a torque wrench is a good investement.
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I sure hope he's not still looking, but he never replied back so maybe he is, he sure has missed a lot of riding time.
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I just did the same damn thing. Finished relocating turn signals, was reconnecting battery and dropped the battery bolt in there somewhere. Spent an hour looking for it with no luck. What I read above doesn't fill me with hope! (Are battery bolts really not attracted to magnets?) I wonder what the OP did in the end?
It was 5 years ago...........who gives a crap what he did.
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The belt actually does not enter the primary case. The primary is a closed unit with the chain only inside of it so there is no way that the bolt could have fallen into the primary. Not to bust your chops, but you stripped the bolt for nothing
The bolt could have fallen onto the belt near the pulleys. If that is the case you could fug up the belt and the pulley teeth should it get caught up. Have you tried putting the bike up on a jack and rotating the rear tire with the bike in gear to get things moving? Also the torx bolt shouldn't be a 28.
The bolt could have fallen onto the belt near the pulleys. If that is the case you could fug up the belt and the pulley teeth should it get caught up. Have you tried putting the bike up on a jack and rotating the rear tire with the bike in gear to get things moving? Also the torx bolt shouldn't be a 28.I would NOT start that bike until you have found the nut. Had I started mine, I could have really done some damage. Good luck.
DAMN!! I have to start paying attention to the posting dates! Who the hell brought this post back from the dead!!
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Ask your wife or girlfriend to find it. Guaranteed! Mine asks me to find something in the fridge or pantry, I can't find it for the life of me. She walks over, with barely a glance and voila! Found. Me, the idiot...
My theory is that women have radars in each breast, they walk over, shimmy just a bit from side-to-side, causing that array to do a sweep, it triangulates on the target and FOUND!
We poor souls with just a single unit can't possibly triangulate, so no depth estimation is possible...
Just ask your lady to look for it.
My theory is that women have radars in each breast, they walk over, shimmy just a bit from side-to-side, causing that array to do a sweep, it triangulates on the target and FOUND!
We poor souls with just a single unit can't possibly triangulate, so no depth estimation is possible...
Just ask your lady to look for it.
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Last heard he was down the block still looking. Probably fell on the toe of his shoe where the shoelaces come together. Maybe if he would just go back into the house and take his shoes off. 5 years? He should be getting hungry by now.
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I just did the same damn thing. Finished relocating turn signals, was reconnecting battery and dropped the battery bolt in there somewhere. Spent an hour looking for it with no luck. What I read above doesn't fill me with hope! (Are battery bolts really not attracted to magnets?) I wonder what the OP did in the end?
Guy posts once and drags up a 5 year old thread and responds to it like it was/is current..
Too much..
So much for introductions.
At least he knows how to use the search function, I guess.
More than many on here.
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The belt actually does not enter the primary case. The primary is a closed unit with the chain only inside of it so there is no way that the bolt could have fallen into the primary. Not to bust your chops, but you stripped the bolt for nothing The bolt could have fallen onto the belt near the pulleys. If that is the case you could fug up the belt and the pulley teeth should it get caught up. Have you tried putting the bike up on a jack and rotating the rear tire with the bike in gear to get things moving? Also the torx bolt shouldn't be a 28.
The bolt could have fallen onto the belt near the pulleys. If that is the case you could fug up the belt and the pulley teeth should it get caught up. Have you tried putting the bike up on a jack and rotating the rear tire with the bike in gear to get things moving? Also the torx bolt shouldn't be a 28.
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