How Not to Swallow Your SE Air Cleaner Screws
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05-07-2008 | 02:21 PM
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05-07-2008 | 02:22 PM
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RE: How Not to Swallow Your SE Air Cleaner Screws
ORIGINAL: georgiabiker
After hearing about all this backing plate screw mess, I tore down my SE breather. The three backing place screws where there, but only slightly tight. Not a drop of loctite to be seen on them. So the kit came with loctite. Wonder what my local stealer did with the loctite that came with my kit?Now I gotta go buy some red loctiteand butter them up before I hit Myrtle Beach bike week.
After hearing about all this backing plate screw mess, I tore down my SE breather. The three backing place screws where there, but only slightly tight. Not a drop of loctite to be seen on them. So the kit came with loctite. Wonder what my local stealer did with the loctite that came with my kit?Now I gotta go buy some red loctiteand butter them up before I hit Myrtle Beach bike week.
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05-07-2008 | 02:39 PM
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RE: How Not to Swallow Your SE Air Cleaner Screws
I was thinking red so I could have an excuse to buy a new carb.
No really I got the colors mixed up, so red is the almost permanent and the blue is the temporary? Now wouldn't that have led to a real bad day when I decidedtoremove them again.
No really I got the colors mixed up, so red is the almost permanent and the blue is the temporary? Now wouldn't that have led to a real bad day when I decidedtoremove them again.
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05-07-2008 | 02:57 PM
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05-07-2008 | 03:01 PM
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RE: How Not to Swallow Your SE Air Cleaner Screws
Well, you nailed it: it was a half-assed job. I called the service manager this afternoon and told him that I found the backing plate screws and the Loctite in their oirginal sealed envelopes and not on the backing plate. He made no mistake that the screws should have been installed. He put me on hold while he went to talk to the tech about it. He came back a few minutes later and apologized. Geez, if they can't install an air cleaner do you think I'm going totrust them with brakes and whatever else? I don't think so. Good thing I got the manual and I can wrench. I was planning to let them do all of the routine maintenance while the bike is still under warranty, but I just changed my mind.
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05-07-2008 | 05:52 PM
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RE: How Not to Swallow Your SE Air Cleaner Screws
ORIGINAL: Fogoms
Well, you nailed it: it was a half-assed job. I called the service manager this afternoon and told him that I found the backing plate screws and the Loctite in their oirginal sealed envelopes and not on the backing plate. He made no mistake that the screws should have been installed. He put me on hold while he went to talk to the tech about it. He came back a few minutes later and apologized. Geez, if they can't install an air cleaner do you think I'm going totrust them with brakes and whatever else? I don't think so. Good thing I got the manual and I can wrench. I was planning to let them do all of the routine maintenance while the bike is still under warranty, but I just changed my mind.
Well, you nailed it: it was a half-assed job. I called the service manager this afternoon and told him that I found the backing plate screws and the Loctite in their oirginal sealed envelopes and not on the backing plate. He made no mistake that the screws should have been installed. He put me on hold while he went to talk to the tech about it. He came back a few minutes later and apologized. Geez, if they can't install an air cleaner do you think I'm going totrust them with brakes and whatever else? I don't think so. Good thing I got the manual and I can wrench. I was planning to let them do all of the routine maintenance while the bike is still under warranty, but I just changed my mind.
These stealers need to realize that they can't hire any tom, dick, and harry and expect good work out of them. Then again, most of the "really good" guys end up opening their own shop... wonder why
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