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| | | PapaSmurfMC | | Chaac |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 03/10/2013 | | Posts | : | 871 | | Location | : | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| | Posted : 31 Dec 2013 - 04:56 Post title : Kuryakyn Dually Pegs and Stirrups installed | | | After a long debate with myself over floorboards versus pegs with stirrups versus staying with the stock pegs, the stirrups won (again). I'd had the same debate with my previous bike and really came to like the Kuryakyn Dually ISO pegs and add-on stirrups. Most of my riding friends that have floorboards tell me they can't imagine riding without them but there's something about them that just doesn't click with me.
On the other hand, the Kuryakyn Dually pegs and optional stirrups have a known issue, and Kuryakyn knows it as well as anyone (I've spoken with their support about it). The mounts of these pegs (and stirrups) aren't splined and are [in]famous for rotating under the weight of your foot, especially the right side where the direction of rotation is counter-clockwise (loosen/unscrew direction).
Kuryakyn Support freely admitted it's a bad design and recommended either using "gray locktite" (a.k.a. JB Weld) or returning all parts to them for a full refund, even though I bought through a dealer. It was nice of them but I didn't like either choice and eventually did find a way to lock them together so they wouldn't rotate while also letting them remain adjustable and removable (so no JB Weld; keep reading).
These are the parts I used:
- Kuryakyn 8840 metric peg adapters.
- Fast Eddy MM07 Pin Adapters Link ; HIGHLY recommended, these are spacers to take up the severe slop in the Kury 8840 adapters when in the TBird peg brackets.
- Kuryakyn 7963 Dually Iso Peg Without Ends
- Kuryakyn 4028 Iso Stirrups For Metric Cruisers
- Drywall sanding screen (Norton, 3M or similar), silicon carbide or aluminum oxide, medium grit
Here's what they look like mounted:
You probably noticed drywall sanding screen in my parts list. This stuff turned out to be the perfect medium for locking the smooth metal to metal interface together between the peg and stirrup. The peg and stirrup fit together like a cone and socket; if Kuryakyn had splined their surfaces, they would have locked together but since they are smooth, they slip a little no matter how much you tighten the central bolt that passes through them. Putting a thin but tough, gritty layer between them accomplishes the task of preventing the slip and that's where the drywall sanding screen comes in.
Cut a "grit washer" out of the sanding screen, just enough to cover the metal-to-metal contact area where the peg and stirrup connect. A sturdy scissor works fine.
When lightly tightened, the peg and stirrup can still be moved and adjusted. Once cranked down, they don't budge. I also made sure to put blue threadlock on the mounting bolt that passes through the peg and stirrup and ultimately screws into the peg adapter.
One installation catch: The left side stock peg can't be removed without first removing the shift lever arm. Naturally!
A simple trick I use to quickly reallign parts when reassembling is to first run a piece of masking tape across the assembled parts and slice it where the parts meet. To reassemble in exactly the same position, just reallign the tape on the two pieces and tighten. Don't forget to remove the tape when you're done. :-)
You'll want to adjust the angle of the Dually peg and the stirrup with the actual boots/shoes you ride with. I find you can lightly tighten the peg mounting bolt with the peg and stirrup parallel with the ground and then rest your foot on the them, letting them rotate down to a comfortable angle, and then just tighten in place. Kuryakyn doesn't give a torque value for tightening but I crank them down (with the included hex key) as far as they'll go. Too tight is just enough. There was just enough of a difference in height between the stock pegs and the Dually's that I found it necessary to adjust the shift lever one notch higher to allow more room to get under it with my boot.
Another little installation quirk I found was that I had to mount the Kuryakyn 8840 peg adapters 180 degrees out of phase between the left and right sides for them to sit level on both sides. The peg adapters have a little lip on one side, presumabley to act as a stop but as far as I can tell, they're completely unnecessary and don't serve any purpose on the TBird. On the right side with the lip facing down, the adapter woudn't sit flush with the TBird's peg bracket (it was angled up a few degrees) because the radius of the adapter lip wasn't clearing the edge of the peg bracket. I flipped the adapter over and all was well.
Opposite story on the left side. With the adapter lip facing up (to match the right side), the adapter drooped down a few degrees. Flipped over with the lip facing down, the adapter lay level in the peg bracket. I don't know if this will be true on all TBirds or maybe the peg brackets have some variation in them so your experience may be completely different.
It's winter here (with a vengence) so I haven't ridden with the new setup yet but I've used the same configuration before and have no reason to think I won't be just as happy with them. They look really good on the Bird, they're not as obtrusive as floorboards and they're easily half the price.
Ride Safe,
PapaSmurfMC
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| | Post edited by PapaSmurfMC on 31 Dec 2013 - 05:00 |
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| | | GerPa | | Jupiter | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 10/12/2011 | | Posts | : | 1,919 | | Location | : | Mackay, Central Queensland, Australia |
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| | Posted : 31 Dec 2013 - 05:19 Post title : Re: Kuryakyn Dually Pegs and Stirrups installed (Re: PapaSmurfMC) | | |  Well done Papasmurf. A great write up and great pictures and yes your 1000% correct re the stirrups. I had them on my Ol America and  I could NOT for the life of me no matter how tight I swung on that retainer bolt stop them drooping particular the RHS  . I hope you little fix sanding medium works and solves the problem.
My solution for the TBird was to get the KY switchblades and the adaptors from Fast Eddy and they work perfectly for me.
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| | Post edited by GerPa on 31 Dec 2013 - 05:20 |
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