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[tazmun]

Make it cheaper, this is my third Ultra and the first to have these issues

Would this come under the extended service plan, or???

[Chains]

Would this come under the extended service plan, or???

Wow, good question, I have extended warranty but never gave it a thought

[Ultra2010]

my 07 did the same thing............. easy to change out, new brackets are better. 

[Chains]

Upper brackets done, 304 Stainless Steel With Stainless bolts, had to have some hidden bling.  Will finish cross bracket tomorrow I hope if I get done with a customer visit early enough to work on it.  This is the RH side

[Chains]

Upper brackets done, 304 Stainless Steel With Stainless bolts, had to have some hidden bling.  Will finish cross bracket tomorrow I hope if I get done with a customer visit early enough to work on it.  This is the RH side

LH Side

[dustingaunder]

Where do these nuts belong?  I found them rattling in my fork sliders one on each side.

[Chains]

Where do these nuts belong?  I found them rattling in my fork sliders one on each side.

The hold the gauges in , hopefully they were dropped in at the factory.

[dustingaunder]

Great...  I'm gonna pull the front off and see if there is a spot for them on the gauges then.  Are there more than two of these holding them in?

[Boatman]

Great...  I'm gonna pull the front off and see if there is a spot for them on the gauges then.  Are there more than two of these holding them in?

Two per gauge.

[dustingaunder]

Alright.  From where they were laying they should have come off different gauges and none of the gauges have fallen off so hopefully I haven't lost any more of them that weren't still in the bike.

[Chains]

Done, final brace made and installed, the fairing is so secure now I think I could tie the bike down with it.  I just hope its not to well mounted and will start to fatigue the fiberglass.

[grc]

my 07 did the same thing............. easy to change out, new brackets are better.  

    I guess "easy" is a relative term.  I'm changing out all my brackets, and while the speaker braces are a piece of cake, the main brackets are a PITA.  Wouldn't be too bad if the clutch fluid line didn't run through the left main bracket, requiring you to disconnect the clutch line, pull it through the inner fairing and the bracket, then thread it through the new bracket and the inner fairing before screwing it all back together and refilling/bleeding the clutch.  Too bad the morons didn't route the line around the bracket, rather than right through it.  That's how the throttle cable side is, so that one is simple.

Didn't realize it when I decided to change all the brackets out, but the right main bracket was broken through at the top bolt to the inner fairing this time.  That makes the fourth broken piece in 5 years.  Way to go H-D, your engineering and quality leave me underwhelmed once again.

One good thing about changing all this crap out I guess, it gave me a good excuse to take everything apart and inspect & clean all the pieces.  Good time to change the fork oil also.  As long as I don't come up with any extra parts when I'm done, I'll try to look at this little task in a positive light.


Jerry

Oh, btw, I compared the old and new main brackets to each other off the bike, and the only difference is the upper attachment tab for the inner fairing.  The rest of the bracket is exactly the same.  So while this change may help the upper tab problem, I don't see anything that will help the cracks in the main portion of the bracket.  I'll be keeping the old bandaid style reinforcing pieces from the old broken brackets in my junk drawer, so when the new ones break I won't have to reinvent the wheel to fix them.

[Ultra2010]

  I guess "easy" is a relative term.  I'm changing out all my brackets, and while the speaker braces are a piece of cake, the main brackets are a PITA.  Wouldn't be too bad if the clutch fluid line didn't run through the left main bracket, requiring you to disconnect the clutch line, pull it through the inner fairing and the bracket, then thread it through the new bracket and the inner fairing before screwing it all back together and refilling/bleeding the clutch.  Too bad the morons didn't route the line around the bracket, rather than right through it.  That's how the throttle cable side is, so that one is simple.

Didn't realize it when I decided to change all the brackets out, but the right main bracket was broken through at the top bolt to the inner fairing this time.  That makes the fourth broken piece in 5 years.  Way to go H-D, your engineering and quality leave me underwhelmed once again.

One good thing about changing all this crap out I guess, it gave me a good excuse to take everything apart and inspect & clean all the pieces.  Good time to change the fork oil also.  As long as I don't come up with any extra parts when I'm done, I'll try to look at this little task in a positive light.






on the 07, it was just a simple bracket change, nothing running within it.......... 













Jerry

Oh, btw, I compared the old and new main brackets to each other off the bike, and the only difference is the upper attachment tab for the inner fairing.  The rest of the bracket is exactly the same.  So while this change may help the upper tab problem, I don't see anything that will help the cracks in the main portion of the bracket.  I'll be keeping the old bandaid style reinforcing pieces from the old broken brackets in my junk drawer, so when the new ones break I won't have to reinvent the wheel to fix them.

[Chains]

I plan on a long ride tomorrow, I'll let you know if the bracket changes I made make a difference.  Hopefully I have improved the HD pieces of crap.  I think the SS brackets will endure more than the cheap old cold roll parts, my stainless pieces are 50% thicker and the tensile strength is much higher, time will tell.

[Mr D]

I plan on a long ride tomorrow, I'll let you know if the bracket changes I made make a difference.  Hopefully I have improved the HD pieces of crap.  I think the SS brackets will endure more than the cheap old cold roll parts, my stainless pieces are 50% thicker and the tensile strength is much higher, time will tell.

Chains,

Where did you purchase these from?