Postby DewCatTea-Bob » Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:26 am
" I could find the front mount bolts and the top rear but not the lower rear unless the front hole in the foot peg mount does double duty as a motor mount bolt.
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foot peg mount front hole, shown as 8mmx257mm. because it is an 8mm bolt, I think I probably am not looking at the correct bolt, "
____ While the more forward bolt-location for the foot-rest bracket seems to be as a motor-mount bolt, it's actually just a (8mm) bolt that helps hold the crankcases together & support the bracket for the foot-rests. _ For Scrambler-models, it was a bad choice because riders over 160-lbs could possibly overwhelm that thin bolt's strength and then let the rider's standing-weight crack the support-bosses of the case. - A real common-problem (understandably) for the 450R/Ts, in both the 8mm/front & 10mm/rear footrest-bracket bolt-locations ! _ I think the factory should've used 12mm-bolts for those brackets in those important bolt-locations, for all their SCR-models.
" top rear 8mmx225mm. This is the one recommended to be replaced with a 10mm bolt I think. "
____ That's right,, unlike stock, there ought to be a 10mm bolt in that location.
Hopeful-Cheers,
-Bob
PLEASE NOTE... If this-post is not-yet signed-off with '-Bob', then I'm still in the process of completing it,, and if not also included with 'DCT' near bottom as well, then I may edit this post's wording at a later time. - Dct.Bob