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Old 04-14-2013, 09:26 AM
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I’m going to try a windshield for the first time on my new Deluxe and a friend has a 19” Mimphis Fats I can try.
So I order a mount kit, get a call from the girl friend that a box was delivered COOL. I’m thinking all day about getting home installing it and go for a ride.
Get home get the package open cover the tank and fender lay the parts out ready to go. Checkout the mount bolt, what are the odds just my luck and no hardware store had one. But it’s all good went to the HD shop and picked one up a couple days later.
Does this **** just happen to me? LOL …I’ll just keep it with my new spark plug that had no threads machined.

Let’s hear about your new install letdowns

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Old 04-14-2013, 09:54 AM
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They are just concerned about someone over tightening that bolt. That one is for finger tight only.
 
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Old 04-14-2013, 10:11 AM
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You don't have a tool for those bolts? What kind of tool set do you have?
 
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Old 04-14-2013, 10:23 AM
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I think what he is referring to is the fact that the right bolt has no torx grooves. It never got machined, so it's smooth inside the head of the bolt. He may not have the sticky gum on the end if a stick in his tool box. I could be wrong tho.
 
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Old 04-14-2013, 10:27 AM
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I thought the bolt on the left had no threads. I couldn't tell by the picture.

I would like to see a picture of that non-threaded spark plug though.
 
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Old 04-14-2013, 10:37 AM
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Well, How do you like the windsheild?......on the road i mean
 
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Old 04-14-2013, 11:11 AM
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Plain enough to see that photography is not your forte. What's not so plain is the issue. Is it no threads or no internal hex?
 
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Plain enough to see that photography is not your forte. What's not so plain is the issue. Is it no threads or no internal hex?
Sorry about the bad pic the bolt on right is flat not machined for any tool, just a slight impression.
Just got back from a ride very impressed with shield. Think I will move it up to look through and try that.
 
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Your better off looking just over the shield,and not through it. No distortion that way
 
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