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12-30-2010, 10:31 PM
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Honda Rider
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Central Alberta
Posts: 7
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Whast really bugs me is previous owners who jam standard fasteners in metric threads!!! A pox on them I say! Just spent an hour drilling out buggered threads and restoring with perma-thread on the front bumper mounts so I could install my winch. Anyone who puts standard fasteners on a metric bike (unless you have to do it to get yourself home) should be severely beaten with an old piece of winch cable!! NO standard fasteners on a metric bike!!!
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12-30-2010, 10:45 PM
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Honda Red Wing Rider
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: your Nightmares
Posts: 5,460
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Welcome to the Machine!
but on my '09 (and I'm anal about stuff like this) but if I take a bolt out of the Frame on this Quad..... I have a VERY extreme hard time getting it to thread back in, its like it strips the bolts taking it out...Dam-est thing Ive ever seen Ive had to tap 2 frame bolts already & need to do one for my gas tank where the dealer left one out , but was nice enough to send me a new one which does not fit this hole....i cut open the plastic and even looked it up and its the Correct bolt for this hole ..but heII is I can get it to go in! And Ive built & Re-built almost every name brand bike out their, Jap, American, German, Italian & British.....talking about a pain in the rear, deal with Wentworth bolt threads...they have "3 standards",....... besides metric & SAE 
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12-30-2010, 11:50 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: south dakota
Posts: 6,628
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We have to install parts when setting up the machines, they can be a pain from paint or a weld slag. the joy's of using a standard bolt where a metric was stripped out is they can and do get forced fit without cutting new threads. I see all types of this including the odd size head on the bolt that is correct (thread wise).
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12-31-2010, 08:52 AM
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Honda Red Wing Rider
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Embro Ont Canada
Posts: 649
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second that even when i do it myself (some of our bolt head happen to be diff ) But i always stay metric!!!
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12-31-2010, 02:37 PM
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Honda Lover
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Shirley, IN
Posts: 267
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instead of heli-coils or perma threads ive started using nut serts on mine. on the steel and on the plastic, and i use 1/4-20 mainly. i also buy button head cap screws that use an allen wrench instead of a standard wrench or socket. gives it a nice clean look. also, ive replaced almost all of my push in plastic fasteners with large head 3/16 pop rivets and back up washers. except where disassembly is required and then i also use the nutserts.
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