AltRider Skid Plate Install?

[Wulfgar]

Trying to finish the above and getting frustrated. Specifically, Step 9 indicates the fasteners fit flush with the outside of the plate. My fasteners DO NOT fit flush and it appears the correct order (based on my parts) is - fastener-finishing washer-skid plate-bracket-washer-locking nut. Any advice? Photos? Their website has the same info and I am at a loss to continue at this point.

 

[stevepsd]

You are using the beveled finishing washers on the outside of the skid plate, correct? The beveled finishing washers used on each side of the rear mounting (2 per side) and the front left mounting.

It looks like they are supposed to be flush from the pictures, but they are not.

Nothing in the instructions actually say that these are supposed to mount flush, as far as I can see......

A pictorial diagram of the skid & mounting hardware would be helpful, as it took me a couple of double-takes to make sure I was assembling my skid plate correctly.

 

[limey]

Trying to finish the above and getting frustrated. Specifically, Step 9 indicates the fasteners fit flush with the outside of the plate. My fasteners DO NOT fit flush and it appears the correct order (based on my parts) is - fastener-finishing washer-skid plate-bracket-washer-locking nut. Any advice? Photos? Their website has the same info and I am at a loss to continue at this point.

Wulfgar I just installed my skid plate yesterday with no problem. If you go on there wed site the pics are a lot clearer. Is the hole for the finishing washer countersunk?

Paul

 

[limey]

Sorry my mistake steve is right they do not mount flush.

 

[stevepsd]

Wulfgar I just installed my skid plate yesterday with no problem. If you go on there wed site the pics are a lot clearer. Is the hole for the finishing washer countersunk?

Paul

Yep.

The 'finishing' washers are the large, thick washers that are flat on one side and countersunk on the other....made from aluminum.

 

[Wulfgar]

Thanks guys (as usual). As noted, the pics make it look different than the install results. I do have the counter-sunk washers on the outside (two on each side in the back and two on the left front). Sounds like I got it right.

 

[Twisties]

There is an install video on the altrider site.

 

[Wulfgar]

Saw the video but didn't seem to answer my questions (to me). Always helps to ask the experts

 

[Twisties]

Saw the video but didn't seem to answer my questions (to me). Always helps to ask the experts

Well, I am most likely ordering one soon, so this thread is helping me. I just hadn't seen mention of the video and thought it might help.

 

[Wulfgar]

Oh, it did help = quite a bit. Just not that one issue. The quality seems to be good on the AltRider products just expected better instructions on an American made product. Once on, it seems solid, stable and up to the job.

 

[phplemel]

I installed mine as soon as I got my bike (July) easy-peasy , Tonight when I left work I went for an extended ride home (80km)via some old mining roads. Still on street rubber so I have been real careful so far but tonight I got into some real offroad ::005:: Bike was AMAZING I heard some HARD rock hits on the skid plate but when I got home I found nothing but mud ::012:: This plate rocks :exclaim:

 

[DuMar]

Oh, it did help = quite a bit. Just not that one issue. The quality seems to be good on the AltRider products just expected better instructions on an American made product. Once on, it seems solid, stable and up to the job.

Wulfgar,

You may find you need to isolate the bash plate from the bike to suppress harmonics.
I have some rubber standing by for this very reason next time I change the oil and filter, because as we know, the bash plate must come off for the filter change. D'oh.
I'm looking at making some changes to the plate so I don't have to do this.

Mike

 

[Alan]

I installed the Altrider Skid Plate this afternoon. The quality is very heavy duty.

The picture in the instructions are very poor. They should have washed the bike before they took pictures. With all of the mud everything is gray and there is no contrast for the picture.

The pictures should have been zoomed out a bit more. They were zoomed in so close it was hard to tell where they were working. After you figured it out it was obvious.

Some of my hardware did not match the instructions.

Since you have to take the skid plate off to change the oil filter, they should have drilled and tapped the brackets and slotted the skid plate. Messing with locknuts and washers every oil change is going to be a pain. I'm also not sure why they have two fasteners at each of the four attachment points. This means eight fasteners to remove every oil change instead of four.

 

[Scoop47501]

Exactly ! A threaded bracket instead of all the washers and nuts would have been nice. I fought the friggen nuts for a good while. Some of those spots are hard to get your hands in to. I also had to modify mine to fit the Yamaha engine guards wrap around bracket.
Scooper

 

[colorider]

Welcome to the forum Alan! Please post an intro over in the "Member intro" section of the forum!!! Also, it is handy for others if you include your location in your profile.

Thanks!!

Rod ::004::

 

[Firefight911]

As for the instructions......

http://www.yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?topic=2222

Welcome to the forum!!!

 

[elizilla]

The picture in the instructions are very poor. They should have washed the bike before they took pictures. With all of the mud everything is gray and there is no contrast for the picture.

+1! I found this incredibly annoying when I was installing my Altrider crash bars. Yes, your stuff is good for riding the bike off road, and when you do that it gets dirty. I get that. But when I'm installing things, I want to be able to actually look at the pictures and understand what I am looking at, and the mud is a huge problem for that. If you're taking pictures for advertisements, fine, load up on the mud. But get out the hose and use it, before you take the pictures for the installation instructions, Altrider. Sheesh!

 

[fender5803]

That's funny K about the Pre wash on the Pre installed bars which I have just installed yesterday and am very happy with. My wife and I were wondering about the mud stains. She thought it was a advertisment not a installation video. I never tried to follow the paper instructions. I finally wrestled them into place and am happy. Just a little bit of a struggle to get them lined up. I think in the video the bars have already been on the bike for sometime and seemed to line up easily-? My holes where off just enough to make it interesting. I followed the audio instructions more than what was being shown as he talked, but finding both helpful of course.
-DT