Keep braking motor mount bolts!
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From: Carmichael CA
Are we talking about the bolt that runs through the frame sleeve and the motor mount ears? If so, then your bolt may have its threads located on one of the ears which is allowing it to have some impact force as well as shear and placing most of the shear on the ear which isn't loose on the bolt threads...this is the only thing that can explain it from my viewpoint. Make sure that the bolt shaft is solid all through the frame sleeve and on both of the motor mount ears...the nut doesn't have to be tight to hold them together...it's just there to keep the bolt on...use two nuts to lock them together if the best bolt has the solid shaft extending too far beyond the ears and requires several washers.
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From: Fredericksburg VA
Originally Posted by Durango_boy
I like the idea but lets deal with your motor mount bolts first huh?
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From: Columbia Missouri
Originally Posted by waterplay
Ok good idea. I may not ride the short bus and ware a helmet in the mall but I think I may have A.D.D.
Me too. My mall is full of jail bait. The whole thing is full of 17 yr old girls who dress like they're 22 yr old strippers. Never seen so many short denim skirts...yikes.
What were we talking about?
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From: Fredericksburg VA
Originally Posted by Rockn-Roll
Are we talking about the bolt that runs through the frame sleeve and the motor mount ears? If so, then your bolt may have its threads located on one of the ears which is allowing it to have some impact force as well as shear and placing most of the shear on the ear which isn't loose on the bolt threads...this is the only thing that can explain it from my viewpoint. Make sure that the bolt shaft is solid all through the frame sleeve and on both of the motor mount ears...the nut doesn't have to be tight to hold them together...it's just there to keep the bolt on...use two nuts to lock them together if the best bolt has the solid shaft extending too far beyond the ears and requires several washers.
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From: Fredericksburg VA
Originally Posted by Durango_boy
Me too. My mall is full of jail bait. The whole thing is full of 17 yr old girls who dress like they're 22 yr old strippers. Never seen so many short denim skirts...yikes.
What were we talking about?
What were we talking about?
"What were we talking about?"
Sounds like we are talking about Jail time. They didnt grow that way when I was 17. Or maby they did and my issue is not A.D.D. its Old timers.
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From: Columbia Missouri
Originally Posted by waterplay
They didnt grow that way when I was 17.
Nor me...they didn't start that till I got to college. Now I'm 28, and I feel icky when I check out a girl, and then find out she's frig'n 17.
Anyway, back to the bolts. I think Rockn had a great point. The stock bolt was a smooth shaft all the way through, and the threading didn't start until after the last ear. Then a spacer was used to space the nut out to the threads. The contact of the ears and the frame tabs should only be to a smooth shaft of a bolt. Threaded sections of that bolt will shear and break a lot easier. I didn't even think that you were buying bolts that had threading contacting the edges of the tabs and ears.
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