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Title: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: phire on April 28, 2006, 06:30:34 PM
(http://omahasales.net/bolt.jpg)

I've tried using a razor blade, the thinnest thing I could think of to wedge in there and pry that cap lookin thing off but it just snaps the blades!  How does one take these bolts off? I've got a rattle in my front end and I've pin pointed it to one or two of these screws near the windshield. But how do I get these things out short of drilling that middle plastic peice out? Or is there something I'm missing?   :dunno_white:

btw - when I say pry, I mean I tried to pry that middle cap looking thing off not the entire screw head itself.
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: TragicImage on April 28, 2006, 06:33:20 PM
uhm, is it a rivet?
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: phire on April 28, 2006, 06:38:58 PM
Aww damn it does look like a rivet now that you mention it... I hope it isn't a rivet... Then I'd have to drill it out and go find some black matching rivets.
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: FearedGS500 on April 28, 2006, 06:56:23 PM
yes sir, thats a rivet . go find you some black matching ones or get your the normal  silver ones and paint them black
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: Mandres on April 28, 2006, 06:59:18 PM
Wait, what are we looking at?  Where is this mystery hardware located on the bike?

-M
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: Egaeus on April 28, 2006, 07:04:36 PM
Quote from: Mandres on April 28, 2006, 06:59:18 PM
Wait, what are we looking at?  Where is this mystery hardware located on the bike?

-M
IT had me confused as well.  Then they said "windshield" and then I read the signature, and it all made sense....
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: phire on April 28, 2006, 07:18:20 PM
Quote from: Mandres on April 28, 2006, 06:59:18 PM
Wait, what are we looking at?  Where is this mystery hardware located on the bike?

-M

It's on the 'front nose' assembly that houses the windshield and headlight. These rivets aren't anywhere else on the bike except here...
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: Simba on April 28, 2006, 07:23:12 PM
Its a push pin by the looks of it.

Try pushing the inner circle in (in should click in) then pry out the outer part

Something like these but push in.
http://www.wurthusa.com/project/en/leftnavi/catalog/product.php?path=NI.001.jpg
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: TM_Dearborn on April 28, 2006, 07:30:35 PM
I usually just cut it off from the back.  They are not reusable, and the dealer will charge you $2.59 per pin for a new one.  You can get them online for half that.  Your local hardware store might have something similar for a bit less.

Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: My Name Is Dave on April 28, 2006, 10:07:28 PM
Yeah, if that's on the fairings, you push the middle in and then pull the whole part out.

If not, I have nary a clue.
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: melloGS on April 28, 2006, 10:28:05 PM
use a screw driver and pry it and push it through...they are also two holding the lower fairings to the upper fairings under the front.
Title: Re: How do these darn things come off?!
Post by: galahs on April 29, 2006, 02:23:54 AM
I know what they are, I was looking at them today, they are on the inside of the F models front fairing below the vior. I was wondering if they are plastic or metal?

I thought they were plastic. Plastic rivets? :dunno_white: