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08-24-2009, 09:17 PM | #1 |
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Lightbar and handlebar questions
I've only had my '04 Nomad for a few months and hope to get help with a few questions. The Kaw lightbar beams are still too high after adjusting as much as possible. Can a thin piece of foam be stuck to the sealed beam, forcing it too shine lower. Any other ideas? Also, I need to retighten the screws holding down the risers. Can this be done without removing the clutch and brake cylinders and throttle linkage? Thanks in advance for your help.
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08-24-2009, 09:52 PM | #2 |
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Something must be wrong, such as bent for this to be any issue. If I recall the lamp holders had a carriage bolt with a square section inside the buckets. Normally this should allow more than enough room to tip the lamps down.
First i would inspect the bar for being bent, which will determine what else might be done. I have forgotten how the bar is attached, but seem to recall it was held by 2 bolts underthe main lamp, and centrally located on the lower A frame to the goose neck. You may well find the bracket there is bent up and back. I would forget the foam idea, do to heat. If you can't bend what I think is bent back down then the next option I might try is to make the slots in the lamp bucket longer with a little delicate file work, or a dremel. As to the risers, are you talking from the bottom and the nuts there, or the top? Either way you shouldn't need to take a thing off the bars. If i recall the bottom nuts are 14mm on a 10mm studd, and if it isn't a studd it is a bolt in a socket held from being able to turn. If it is the allens on the top plates holding the bars down and tight, you simply tighten these 4 bolts up.. Not being sure what risers you have makes it impossible to say what torque specs should be.
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08-25-2009, 09:13 AM | #3 |
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I don't know what your light bar is like, but the Kawi lightbar I had on my 99 Nomad was aimed too high also. After much looking the situation over, and trying different things, I put a crescent wrench adjusted as thin as would slide over the 'platform' that the lights bolt to, and bent the platform further down. I braced it with my hand the best that I could so that the torque was going into bending the platform, not ripping the mounting bolts under the headlight loose.
It was a slight enough bend that nobody would ever notice, but it got the beams back to where they needed to be. |
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08-25-2009, 10:18 AM | #4 |
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If you try Dan's method pad the wrench with masking tape in more than 1 layer, or use leather.
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08-25-2009, 10:49 AM | #5 |
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I don't understand why you'd need to remove the lever and throttle assemblies to tighten the riser bolts, so no - you shouldn't have to do that.
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08-26-2009, 11:33 AM | #6 |
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Thanks guys, I'll take a look at all you suggested.
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