Triumph Dresser Bars

dtgiese

.040 Over

Joined

Jun 24, 2011

Messages

70

Location

North Carolina

• Jul 1, 2011

• #1

The brown truck delivered them at 1830, had them installed by 1930, EASY INSTALL! Look Awesome and great quality. Unfortunately I ordered the foot rests two days later and won't receive them until Wed. Highly recommend the factory bars for ease of installation.

 

dtgiese

.040 Over

Joined

Jun 24, 2011

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70

Location

North Carolina

• Jul 1, 2011

• #2

BTW, removed the radiator end shrouds to ease the removal of the front engine bolt and found all of the right side inner shroud bolts loose, two almost ready to fall out. Also had one forward seat bolt only 1/4 of the way in but it was tight. Had to put a tap through it to get it to go in all the way. 2009 R3T with only 1500 miles so I guess this is the way it came from the factory. Weird, the quality seems so good, I think I'll check it over more tomorrow.

 

HellFire

Legend

Joined

Aug 16, 2008

Messages

4,518

• Jul 1, 2011

• #3

I bought the bike new and noticed right off all the white and blue paint marks on the most of the screws and bolts indicating they were torqued and checked at the factory. Every one that I've had to re-torque or snug up and applied thread locker to, I wiped the paint off of. Now I challenge anyone to find more than a handful with that paint still on them.
Just a dab of Lock-Tite would have prevented all of it ... Cheap bastards.

 

rayjay

Nitrous

Joined

Jun 27, 2009

Messages

1,359

Location

LONDON ENGLAND

Ride

2012 roadster

• Jul 2, 2011

• #4

Yep..two on the left side shroud were loose and one at the bottom was hanging out
You would have thought that someone would have picked up on this..brand new bike
But experience over the years as taught me to check as much as i can when i get
the bike home and that's what i do..always

Ray