Sportster engine guard installation instructions

Attach the engine guard upper mounting bracket on top of the engine guard to the open holes under the steering head.

Use the original three screws and washer for Sportsters built after Use the hardware that came with the engine guard for earlier Sportsters. Attach the lower bracket to the engine guard with the included long bolt and hex nut. Tighten the nut to 30 foot-pounds of torque with a hex socket and torque wrench.

Turn the handlebars all the way right and left and check for interference by the engine guard with the clutch and brake cables. Labels: Harley Davidson. There are, it is commonly said, only two kinds of bikers: those who have crashed and those who will crash. Engine guards help protect rider and motorcycle whenever the motorcycle goes over on one side. Most of these accidents are at low speed, or even with the motorcycle stopped, and when that happens the guards don't protect engines so much as everything else on the lower front of the bike.

In the kind of crashes that make wonderful stories, the ones that happen on freeways at speed, engine guards significantly improve a rider's chances of emerging from the hospital with both legs and both feet. Engine guards are an easy bolt-on. Remove the three screws and the one flat washer from under the steering head with an Allen socket.

Remove and discard the two top motor mount bolts, washers and nuts using a socket wrench, a hex socket and an open-end wrench.

Insert the long screw that was packed with your engine guard through the top motor mount. Locate the short crossmember near the bottom of the downtubes. The threaded inserts built into them will receive the lower engine guard mounting bolts. Place the engine guard upper mounting tab in position under the upper tie-link.

Hold the horn bracket in position under the engine guard mounting tab on all models except the Custom. Tighten the bolts finger-tight by hand. Tighten finger-tight. Center the engine guard on the motorcycle by sight, and tighten the mounting screws to 25 to 35 pound-feet of torque with a pound-foot torque wrench and socket.

Reconnect the horn wire connectors to their terminals at the back of the horn on all models other than the Custom. Swing the handlebars through the full range of motion to ensure there is sufficient clearance between the clutch and brake cables and the engine guard. Remove the blanket or rags from the front fender.