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Tazmania720
Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 08:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

OK, if you look two lines down from this, all will see that I had a broken isolator mount on the front. I was able to remove both parts (remember one side was broke) with no problems. I had a local shop weld it till the new one gets here, thanks Andy. I looked over the hardware and did not see any problems. Well reassembly was going well up until I was using the torque wrench on the shifter side bolt going into the head. Turn, turn, CRACK!! I stopped and pulled it out, about 2/3's of the threads are broke off inside the head wall. NOW, I have not even turned the bike on yet in hopes of what I am hoping to read. Can I use an easy out on this problem, or am I better off going to a shop? Thanks.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 - 11:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hard to imagine any scenario where it was tight enough to break one of those bolts, but would be loose enough to allow an easy out to work.

Bummer. : (
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Tazmania720
Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 08:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The headache is now gone, and $1000 later I am now back on the street. I am so in the wrong business. I was charged $85 an hour to work on my bike by the local, and only, Buell dealer. Funny thing is, they could not pull the bolts themselves, they had to send it out. I was only charged $100 for that part of the job, but since it is 5.5 hour job to pull the motor and such, BIG MONEY!!! Oh well, the price we pay I guess.
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