Removing the Steering Lock

[Blueraven]

Hi Everyone, my tumbler on my steering lock comes out and I want to fix it. In looking at the mounting, the 2 bolt heads have been filed, cut or something like that so that I can't get a wrench on it to removed them. I was going to use a LEFT handed drill to try to get these bolt out and repair the lock. Any other suggestions on how to remove the steering lock?

Thanks

[ringadingh]

Can you get some needle nose vise grips on them? or cut a slot for a flat bladed screwdriver.

[cnc]

Well you could start by not buying stolen bikes.
Seriously I just had a look at my lock. It is not bolted on. The block is held in place by two studs with washers and peened over like rivets. from what I can see, I would drill out the peened part and the block and washers should come free.
Replacing it is the tricky part. Without seeing exactly what there is to work with a couple of ideas come to mind. You may be able to grind the studs off and drill and tap to accept bolts or thread the studs and open up the mounting holes in the block and use T nuts to reassemble.

[macmac]

My bike is still in winter storage so I can't go look, but I am certain whats left was never a nut or bolt, and was a form of rivet. Maybe if you look hard there is the other end not in a blind hole, or maybe the rivets are driven into a blind hole.

If you do use a screw use a hardened screw and once they are installed fungu the screw heads with a dremel whizz where so no one can take them out.

A lock any fool can unbolt ain't worth squat. That lock should not be the only lock either. They alone are a easy lift and a easy break.

The steering lock is for when you have to pay for gas inside a store because maybe the store won't do cards. Pretty common in my neck of the woods. A disk lock added adds a little motre time, not a whole lot of time. These two locks stop the honest theif One too stupid to get into the 'Craft'.

What slows down a crafty theif is a hardened chain, plus all the above. You can slow him down a little more with hardened cables, and the chain and cable must go around something like a lamp pole, or a axel if the bike is on/in a trailer.

I knew of a guy who had every lock there was on his truck, trailer and bike and all he found left was the drive shaft U bolts from his truck. A real hot shot craft thieft swiped the whole rig and everything locked to it.