does anyone have a part number or for heaven's sake the specific url to a reasonably priced (under 30$) ts relocation kit? I hate trying to find anything on ronayers or jandpcycles because they require you to pick out manufacturers before you even know what it is they sell. ARRRRGH! I would really appreciate some help here as I think I don't have the cohones Cegodsey has putting his ts in his tail light like that. I am sure that one of several, equally depressing unmentionable things would happen if I tried it.

thanks in advance, kait

Thanks for saying I have cohones. Because of a genetic defect, they are smaller than juevos.

Thanks for saying I have cohones. Because of a genetic defect, they are smaller than juevos.

Actually that would be huevos. But I am glad you appreciate the compliment, you deserve it. I am sure it would take one drill bit and a tiny bit of pressure and the side of the tail light would go CRACK! So I am for spending the small amount rather than the big bucks to replace the tail light assembly on top of everything else. Hell, I can't even get the stupid helmet lock off the drivers side. :hitanykey It's like someone superglued the thing on. I am going to have to take it to the dealer, or egads, maybe drill the thing out myself, then I have to find a stupid flat head bolt that will fit and stay in there, this time without the superglue. Any ideas on that?

It feels like everytime I try to loosen a nut or screw it strips out. I don't have any fancy smancy tools like an impact hammer (like I would even know how to make THAT work). So any help with ideas for a regular screwdriver or even a regular cordless drill and driver to remove these screws/bolts would be very helpful.

kait

Regular screwdriver, correct size of course, but first - get a penetrating oil (somebody said PB), squirt it in there, and wait several hours. I'm not sure I understand the science behind it, but it works. Just make sure you are pushing on the screw when you try to turn it.

As to relocation, Knifemaker sells a version. Let's see if I can find it for ya.

Too bad about the genetic defect.What the hell is a juevos?

That did not answer the ???? about what huevos are.

Here's pics of his on Yahoo. (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/knifemaker1954/album?.dir=897e&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/knifemaker1954/my_photos)

His email is knifemaker1954@yahoo.com

His web presence:
http://www.metriccustomcreations.com/Main.html

That did not answer the ???? about what huevos are.

Try looking it up on the 'net:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3A+huevos

Oh, here's a PS. Kawasaki's saddle bag mounts come with a relocation kit. It doesn't say it in the description. But unless you are getting it from Kawasaki, I don't know if they will be included with yours. I haven't come up with a solution for my helmet locks yet. I've been just putting my helmet over the sissybar tail thingy. We don't have a helmet law, so there's not a huge demand for stolen helmets.

That did not answer the ???? about what huevos are.
"Huevos" is spanish for eggs... usually chicken eggs, but cegodsey may try to claim they are ostrich size now that you know. :D

Here's pics of his on Yahoo. (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/knifemaker1954/album?.dir=897e&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/knifemaker1954/my_photos)

His email is knifemaker1954@yahoo.com

His web presence:
http://www.metriccustomcreations.com/Main.html

I got my supports off ebay and they don't come with the relocation part, so I will probably have to get knifemaker to fab one for me. Thanks for the links. It looks really good in black and that is color of my fender anyway! Thanks again, and I hope your huevos are the size of ostrich eggs and not chicken.;)

As I get older, seems like they are approaching the size of grande rooster huevos.

Rooster Huevos.... hm I think I understand, but maybe you should ask your wife if you should really be discussing this information on a public website. It may be too much information for her to have to deal with being out in the big wide world.

btw, what keeps you up all night and answering posts at dark morning hours? If you are a vampire, I could understand, but you do ride during the day don't you? If not why worry about lights? (see and you thought I was just hijacking the thread!);)

Years of messing around with snowmobiles, motorcycles, etc has taught me this: Find a screwdriver that fits the phillips head of the screw. Not oversized and definitely not undersized. Preferably with as large a handle on it as you can get and use a glove for better grip/leverage. Use all your muscle to push the screwdriver into the screw and twist (lefty loosy/ righty tighty) and HIT the end of the screwdriver with a hammer while turning in the direction to loosen. Not a rubber hammer but a REAL hammer. My Craftsman screwdrivers have not failed me to date. Cheap ones tend to break though.

The other option is to purchase an impact screwdriver to accomplish the same thing. I have one of those. I find myself using the procedure I noted above though more times than not with a regular screwdriver though.

Hope that helps you.

I recently removed my helmet locks and found the right side had locktite. Using the procedure above..... it came right off WITHOUT damaging the screw head.

Please note... following the procedure above will NOT damage your screws. Trying to force the screw only WITHOUT hitting with hammer will when it slips because you are unable to break the static friction of the fastened joint.

My Effexor keeps me up - a lot. At least that's what my wife says. But that's fixin' to change. I just switched to Cymbalta. Like I said to my doc, "I don't think the effexor is working any more. It's like this - I want a bowl of cereal, but that means I have to get a bowl out, then I have to open the refridgerator up to get the milk, then I've got to open the pantry to get the cereal... just too much work for a bowl of cereal."

As far as riding, I ride to work and back. Where else would I go? Oh, sometimes the store.

Wow. and all these years I was turning it the wrong way... :doh:

not really.

Thanks for the help on that. Since I had already trashed the head of the screw on the left side, I found that I could get a pair of vise-grips on the screw from the back. I then tightened the screw so at least is doesn't rattle anymore. When I go to take them off, I will have to drill that one out and then I will try the hammer/ screwdriver trick on the other side. Thanks again itlnstln13,
kait:beerchug:

I thought this was a family site? all this talk of "eggs" and "rack's" not to mention silicone. Cegodsey does have them the size of ostrich eggs but that is only temporary, he locked the front tire up going 10 mph while watching a "rack" and slid into the instrument cluster. That's gotta hurt.;)

My Effexor keeps me up - a lot. At least that's what my wife says. But that's fixin' to change. I just switched to Cymbalta. Like I said to my doc, "I don't think the effexor is working any more. It's like this - I want a bowl of cereal, but that means I have to get a bowl out, then I have to open the refridgerator up to get the milk, then I've got to open the pantry to get the cereal... just too much work for a bowl of cereal."

As far as riding, I ride to work and back. Where else would I go? Oh, sometimes the store.


I have been on Cymbalta for a while now, actually since it came on the market. But I don't sleep if I don't take a sleeping med, so they have me on Seroquel as well. I get really unpleasant when I don't sleep so I really had to work on my sleep patterns. What a PITA depression is huh? oh well taking the meds is better than the alternative...

Speaking of sleep:zzz: I have to be up early in the am. later, kait

I thought this was a family site? all this talk of "eggs" and "rack's" not to mention silicone. Cegodsey does have them the size of ostrich eggs but that is only temporary, he locked the front tire up going 10 mph while watching a "rack" and slid into the instrument cluster. That's gotta hurt.;)
I am on the floor LMAO!!!!!!!!

:pepper: :rockon: :smiley_th

From the factory, the helmet locks have locktite on them to prevent them from being removed easily (why didn't they do that on the toolbox lock?). You need to have a very good screw driver to get it out and either lean the bike against something to prevent you from pushing it over or find a big buddy to hold the bike to prevent it from moving. On the other hand, you could get an impact screw driver (and hammer if you don't already have one) from sears or other places.

The Kawasaki's saddle bag mounts come with relocation positions for both the turnsignals and helmet locks.

I put on my bags, throwovers, permanently under the seat, didn't relocate the turn signals, still have no problem accessing my bags, AND, I can still use my helmet locks just fine. What the heck did I do wrong?

http://pages.tstar.net/~fergy/images/vulcan_bags_closeup.jpg

No, I probably couldn't put something that was solid and exactly the shape of my saddlebag into it without a bit of trouble, but my rain gear and my bike cover, the two main things I carry all the time in there, are able to go in with no trouble. I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Maybe it's the way I mounted my bags??? Did I just get lucky with the bags I bought?

Over the weekend, my car died so I took in the battery to get tested. It fit easily into my saddle bag (I have some jumbo Kawasaki saddle bags no longer available). If the turn signals were not relocated, I couldn't have placed the battery in the saddle bag unless I r/r the turn signal.

So I got the supports today and I was all ready to put them on. They don't fit... At least I can't figure out how they are supposed to fit since the space between the bolt holes is way too wide. Any ideas how a set could come off a Vulcan and not go back on a Vulcan? The ebay picture shows the set on the bike. The only difference I see is the color of the supports, on the web I thought they were black, but they came in chrome...Do you think the seller BUFU'd the deal? I have an email out to him, haven't heard back, but I just sent it. As for relocating the damn locks and lights, I guess that is a moot point for a while!:mad:

Well, Fergus, two things. One is the fact that you've got some supports that move the bags out from the side, and the other is that those are some dinky bags. How do you get your laptop in there?

Any ideas how a set could come off a Vulcan and not go back on a Vulcan?

If it's not a Vulcan 750.

no, it was definitely a 750, ears and all.

You got a link to it?

Here's my bags:
http://www.vn750.com/photopost/data/502/bags.jpg

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170023629295&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1

I have no idea if this link will work but it is item number 170023629295.

kait

BTW, Knifemaker no longer makes the relocation box..:(

now what do i do?:confused:


kait

Anyone out there want to volunteer to make kaitbroe a set of relocators? You can use the template in knifemaker's picture gallery on yahoo. Bulldog485 is a master builder a similar items. PM him.

As to being black on eBay, it was just a bad pic. They're chrome.

Damn, and I was hoping that the guy just sent me the wrong set.... oh well.

Maybe I am just not meant to have saddlebags... :BLAM:

I am still looking for a rear luggage rack, maybe I can just go that route and I won't have to do all the relocating of everything. I will keep Bulldog in mind though, just in case I figure out a way of putting the things on my bike.
:motorcycl

Do they look the same attached to the bags? The ones on ebay appear to be the correct ones. He did say they needed hardware to attach. Let me do some looking and I'll get back to you.

I sent you a PM.

thanks ern. got your message, sent one back. He only mentioned that the light relocation kit was not included.

kait

So I called the dealer I usually talk to for work, and the parts guy says they have a universal relocation kit for 30$. If the second set of supports I won on ebay don't come with the bracket, then I will go down and let the dealer install it all... I found out that the bags I got were originally more than 300$, they are kawasaki parts. I will probably sell those either here or on ebay, just because I need larger bags than these. They are spotless, all leather, and set up for the Vulcan brackets. When I get to the dealer and get it all settled I will post them here for a while before I do the ebay route (I hate giving ebay any money when I would rather split their cut with the buyer and me...:rockon:

thanks everyone for your help and input. :notworthy

The saga continues...

Went the 30 miles to the dealer. Got there, the "universal" t/s relocation kit is only good if you want to mount the t/s on your bags... what the f&^%%$$!

so I am back to now owning two sets of supports and I still can't mount any bags. However, the dealer is going to try to call Kawa tomorrow or Monday and see if he can't finagle a set of just the relocation parts, so I can at least use the damn things I have. Needless to say I am soooooo frustrated.

Well when the going gets frustrating, the frustrated go shopping. I didn't buy anything, but at least I looked at stuff that might actually be fun to own.

Will keep you up to date on the latest, soonest.
kait:confused: :doh: :(

The auction states the relocation kit is not included. Without the relocation kit, saddle bag guards are useless. The relocation kit also is the REAR mounting point for the saddle bag guards.

Yeah, I found out that the hard way... twice. But I am trying other avenues. I just sent the relocation kit plans knifemaker did to a guy who does brackets. I don't know if he can make this, but if he can, then I'll have two made and sell the second one with the second set of supports. Saving money by not buying the Kawa part is starting to cost me a fortune!

As my friend's therapist says. OH WELL!

kait