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Hello and Happy Father’s Day to all to whom it applies!
Went to change out my air filter today and found that one of the housing bolts is good and seized. I obviously regret not applying anti-seize. Unfortunately, I also damaged the bolt head. It’s not completely rounded out but it’s pretty bad.
Now while I’m certainly not thrilled about it, I’ve been planning on having the stage 1 intake and pipes installed and so will probably just go ahead and have it done now. I’ve dealt with damaged bolts before but not quite like what I’ve got here and so figured that I’d just let the shop know about it when I call to schedule the install.
My questions are these: First, has anyone else had trouble with their air box bolts seizing up? Second, how do you think the shop will deal with the bolt? I absolutely trust the place where I’ll be taking it and so this is really just me being curious about how motorcycle mechanics typically handle situations like this.
Thanks!
Went to change out my air filter today and found that one of the housing bolts is good and seized. I obviously regret not applying anti-seize. Unfortunately, I also damaged the bolt head. It’s not completely rounded out but it’s pretty bad.
Now while I’m certainly not thrilled about it, I’ve been planning on having the stage 1 intake and pipes installed and so will probably just go ahead and have it done now. I’ve dealt with damaged bolts before but not quite like what I’ve got here and so figured that I’d just let the shop know about it when I call to schedule the install.
My questions are these: First, has anyone else had trouble with their air box bolts seizing up? Second, how do you think the shop will deal with the bolt? I absolutely trust the place where I’ll be taking it and so this is really just me being curious about how motorcycle mechanics typically handle situations like this.
Thanks!