1150 - Bash Plate HELP!!

[(RIP) willstatt]

Once when I took mine off, one of the rear studs came out from the engine rather than the nut coming off the stud. I suspect that's what happened with your previous owner, and then he got 'confused' when he re-assembled it all.

Anyway. the plain fact is, that your plate is fitted incorrectly, and should be below, and not above those rubber spacers.

Do as has been suggested: Cut the rubbers off, get the studs out, and fit some new ones, new bash plate and have the thing as it should be!

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Fed up repeating myself on this thread, but here goes again - that's a diagram of an 1100. .

Perhaps they use a generic diagram, but whatever, the diagram is incorrect.

Aye.........................you can lead a horse to water..................but you can't make it drink

 

[Keith Chapman]

Aye.........................you can lead a horse to water..................but you can't make it drink

You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.

 

[John Armstrong]

You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.

Or graphite

 

[Big Den]

All 4 rubber mounts split and fell off my old GS, bought 4 new ones and after a bit of turning with a good set of molegrips they came out suprisingly easily i had already resigned myself to drilling /tapping etc but turned out to be one of the easier jobs.

 

[King Rat]

Oillie - try getting Plus Gas onto the thread of the stuck bobbins. Leave it for overnight - feed it before you go to bed (give it another squirt) then have a go after the Plus gas has had a chance to work its way in - far better stuff than WD40, just not marketed so heavily.

A set of 4 bobbins from Motor works are only a tenner - the rubber perishes after a time anyway, they are a replace item every few years. Then put the bash plate back on as should be.

I have actually ditched the bash plate on my Adv, but the standard single spark 1150 still has hers in place. Never put a hole in a sump yet in 35 years of riding bikes! I admit, I don't slide them over rocks resting on the bottom of the engine.

 

[ghost]

just a suggestion that worked for me~try hammer and screwdriver,jus to crack the tightness,then put vicegrips on em.