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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:09 pm
by Yan
I was putting the gas tank back and stripped one of the bolts that
hold it. It's actually worse than that as I seemes to have stripped
the thread on that piece of frame where the bolt goes into. What are
my options? If worse comes to worse can the tank be held in place with
only one bolt?
The good thing is that the thread is not stripped completely, I was
able to screw the bolt back but it was going in very hard.
Thanks,
Yan
posted some pics
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:45 pm
by teamster1997
OK,
I forgot who asked me to post pics of the bike. I think I posted them
under
"Tim's "06" faster red KLR, Shelton,WA."
The dirty pic is to prove it has been off road, because most of my pics
are taken with the bike cleaned up.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:07 pm
by Doug Krogel
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Yan" wrote:
>
> I was putting the gas tank back and stripped one of the bolts that
> hold it. It's actually worse than that as I seemes to have stripped
> the thread on that piece of frame where the bolt goes into. What are
> my options? If worse comes to worse can the tank be held in place
with
> only one bolt?
>
> The good thing is that the thread is not stripped completely, I was
> able to screw the bolt back but it was going in very hard.
>
> Thanks,
> Yan
>
I did the same thing. I ran a metric tap through to clean up the
holes and put new bolts in.