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Old 02-10-2010, 01:02 PM
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What the best way to remove the reflector off of my 07 Heritage forks on the botton they are obviously glued on best way to take off put on Fat Daddys along with 16" apes reflectors look terrible on forks........Thanks
 
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Fishing line, run it back and forth like a saw and it will take them off in seconds. Clean up sticky junk with lighter fluid or WD-40. It's really that easy.
 
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Old 02-10-2010, 01:16 PM
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rip em off, peel off any remaining adhesive with your fingers.. use goo gone on the excess. DONE!
 
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Lots of guys just use dental floss....and then the goo gone as listed above.
 
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No Goo-Gone? Use WD-40.
 
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I say leave em' ...they will give your bike that extra shine...lol...jk
 
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take a lighter (grill lighter is easier) and heat the reflector up on all sides and the fork part around it -wrap a flat head screwdriver in electrical tape and pop 'em off. mine had very little clean up with goo-gone
 
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Spray a lil WD-40 or Adhesive remover between the fork and reflector well saturate it really. Then grab ur wifes hair dryer and turn to hot and warm that puppy up should be able to pull off with most of the 3M tape still attached for minimal clean up.
 
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With as little lighting to the sides the bikes have, and having been hit before, my sister's shovel hit from behind at a light, and such as these...I elected to leave them on until I come up with some LED's or a way of making myself seen at night, especially at intersections. This will probably be under-tank lighting for the engine chrome.
Just my choice and my reasoning. I did think the fishing line idea was really cool tho.
 
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I used a hairdryer to heat em' up a little ... the fishing line went right through em' .... then a little goo gone to clean em' up .... good to go !

When I got mine off .... it was like night and day. Looks way better without em' !
 


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