Touratech engine bars

[batman1]

Yes but while they were bending they were absorbing and dicipating the energy from the fall into themselves and not the mountings and frame.

A mate of mine dropped his Triumph Daytona at a roundabout on some diesel, fairly low speed slide and as he had R&G extended sliders sticking out from the fairing all should have been fine. However the nylon slider bobbins were mounted via long bolts that took the place of the standard top forward engine bolts. The result was that force of the fall or the slide transferred itself into the mounting point and snapped the mounting clean off the frame, the frame was alloy, so we ended up having to strip the bike right down to get the frame off to a specialist alloy welder to get it repaired.

The Moral of the story in this case was had he not fitted the sliders, the damage would only have been some superficial fairing damage which ended up damaged anyway.

Sometimes the parts that we fit to protect an item do need to be sacrificial in order to save something more important.

 

[Rockred]

You've probably done it this way already, but just in case!
The general rule with Touratech stuff, as divulged to me by the TT main mechanic when I was struggling to fit my engine bars to my LC at their HQ 3 years ago, is to fit everything together really loosely first. And when he said loosely he was quite specific that any nuts or bolts should be only just engaged with a couple of turns. Then you tighten everything up in rotation a bit at a time until everything is torqued up correctly.
No idea if that helps but good luck getting it sorted.

I bought mine from off this forum from a very very nice man. I don't remember if it was Crutchrocket or the instructions that said, fit the bars loosely first, before you tighten up any bolts, did that and no problems.

 

[RickSkye]

That could be a better fit!

I was using some plastic spacers to get the distance, 10mm, and for a laugh I popped the bolt in and took a photo as if this was the finished job.

I guess most were too shocked to comment.

Thanks duckspeed

I have since got some ss washers and extended bolts and when i can find some 10mm aluminium, I shall fashion a nice spacer to fit and order some torx bolts to match.