ok... so i took my bike on the freeway to go to school.. and rode it around for most of the day.. and the next morning i was going to take my bike out... and i started it up and was checking the bike... and then i found that two of the bolts on the exhaust fell out... its the bolts that hook the exhaust up to engine... and luckily one got caught somehow in the part of the bike.. buit the other one is lost.. and now i have to order one... well i did.. and it should be here soon... but what im wondering is.. do you have to check uyp on the bolts often? or was it just something that happened to me unluckily?... oh yea.. and another thing.. i this cable that goes from the tachometer to the engine.. and it screws in.. but for some reason it always comes loose.. and once its comes loose and detaches my rpm's dont work... so i have to pull over and screw it back in... no matter how hard i tighten it.. it always seems to get loose again... does anyone else have these problems? anyway to fix it? let me know thanks!
Try using locktite on your tach bolt and I have no idea if locktite is for high heat applications, if it is use it on your exhaust bolts.
this is why race bikes have safety wire on them......
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part of your periodic maintenance should be to torque the major bolts on your bike...also lube the crap out of your rear suspension and steering stem bearings
where do i get locktite?.. do you think they will torque the bolts for free ? if i take them to a shoip?
when was the last time you went to a shop and had any service performed......FREE??????
service manual and a torque wrench....
You can get lock tite at any hardware or automotive store
PTFE tape wrapped around the male threads will stop the locking collars at each end of the cable from becoming loose.
I use loctite blue on the tach cable ends too... well, actually I think I've used it on every bolt on the bike.
I don't know about high-heat applications. I believe that the 8 bolts that hold the case covers on use loctite from the factory, and that they come loose easier if you heat them up first... so that would possibly mean that high heat would make the loctite ineffective.
I don't wire my bolts, but I do mark them: after I put them back on, I draw a vertical line across the bolt head with a black or silver sharpie marker. Then I ride about a mile, then recheck the bolts I just messed with.
ooohhh smart.. thanks for the input :kiss:
There are different types of locktite depending upon what you need. Talk to any COMPETENT(or willing to do the research) sales person, and you can find out what you need. One thing that I know for sure is that you only want to use GREEN locktite on things you never will loosen again(my shifter bolt for example). Red locktite should hold things together just fine, but every possible nut and bolt should be checked while doing oil changes(better safe than sorry)
Don
Red Loctite loosens at 400 degrees, so it's out for header bolt usage. Best thing to do is tighten them and check them often. The bolts holding the front fender on are prone to backing out too. I lost 3 of them last year before I knew they were gone.