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Yamaha Saddle Bag Guard Installation Instructions
Let me start out by saying that Joe Friday ain't no wrench! I don't even play one on the weekends, but I can do the "bolt on" stuff... The following is a guide for how I made the Yamaha Tour Classic bars fit on my Road Star. Yours may or may not work out the same... This is a 3 or 4 beer project...
| Start out by removing the saddle bags from the mounting brackets. - I don't have a photo of this step, and if you really need one to take the bag off, don't read any further. |
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| For now, leave the bag brackets attached. - Remove the front mounting bolt from the mustache bar and install the upper guard bracket and guard. Snug it down, but it's a fixin' to come back off. Leave the new guard part a little loose too. You'll need to turn it some. |
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| Twist the guard till it is centered on the lower bag bracket as shown. You can "feel" of the end of the bar and make sure it is located as close to the center of the lower bracket as you can get it. While your in here this far you may also want to clean that impossible to reach part of the belt guard! |
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| Once I found the proper location, I put a piece of duct tape around the bag bracket where it was going to mount to the lower end of the guard... |
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| Now mark the duct tape where the guard will be attached to the bag mounting bracket.. Then take an accurate measurement of the marks you made on each side of the guard... |
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| Now figure out what half that measurement is and mark the center of where the lower end of the guard needs to mount... All this markin' is why I put the duct tape on the bracket. |
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| Now take the bag bracket completely off the scoot and center punch the bag bracket where you need to drill the hole. Don't be shy here! Whack it real good! You don't want the drill bit slidin' off the bar as you try and drill the hole! |
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| In my case it was now time for a road trip, at least across the street to Bubba's house. He has a drill press, and I don't. You can use a hand drill, but if you have access to a press, by all means use it! Also while your there, check Bubba's calendar. He sometimes seems to ferget to turn the page at the end of the month, and the least you can do is make it right for him... Come on now, back to work! |
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| I used a small bit to drill a pilot hole, then a little larger then finally finished it off with the correct size. Don't go any larger than you need to clear the bolt... |
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| Now mount the guard to the bracket, 'cause when you get the bracket back on, you can't get the lower guard bolt in... Unless you got a really weird swing arm! |
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| The finished product... |
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Here is a write up that Gasman did on modifying these same bars for the Yamaha hard bags in this post: 152031.1
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| I've never seen
this done before so naturally I had to try it. I made the Tour Classic Bag
Guards work with the Silverado hard bags. I know Joe Friday did it with the
Silverado leather bags but this has a whole different twist. The first problem is the chrome mounting bracket that holds the top of the bar isn't long enough for the bar to clear the bag. So I made a longer one out of 1 1/4 x 1/8 flat bar. That's when I ran into problem #2. There's not enough room for it between the front of the bag and the frame at the rear of the seat. I had already made some bag lowering brackets similar to Geno's about a year ago so I just redesigned them to move the bags down AND back to give me the clearance I needed. The pics below will show it better than I can type it. |
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