Gizza hug !!! (CBR600 Hugger fitting prob)

[swaffs]

ok, I picked up my bargain Powerbronze hugger for £25 (brand new still in bag!!)

however...

I have two issues:

1 My twin cans come up and around the swinging arm, which is where the hugger bolts to.
The left hand side is fine..
https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger2.jpg

But the right hand side actually bolts to the outside of the swing arm and has a bracket between the hugger and swing arm. This causes the hugger to touch the exhaust
https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger1.jpg

https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger3.jpg

I was thinking maybe of cutting the hugger where the exhaust is touching:
https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger5.jpg

how far do you think i would need to cut away from the exhaust? (to prevent melting)


2 It's not straight:
https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger4.jpg

Its off to the left and actually touching the tyre......

Jay has suggested moving it back a bit by making the holes slightly wider with a file. Any other thoughts?


Thanks.

Swaffs.

Hopefully it will be fixed today, because it's so damn dark when I get home for work there's no change of working on it during the week.
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[TiN]

Oh, the joy of fitting aftermarket plastics...

Those twin cans look cool...never seen such a setup on an inline 600 before...

In regards to the problems:

1.) Is it possible to fiddle with the link pipe a bit to give a bit slack from the hugger? The fact that it touches the hugger must mean that it sits pretty darn close to the swingarm already? That's not normally a good thing...

2.) Is the this the reason why it was such a bargain? i.e manufacturing defect. The only thing that I have against widening the holes is that it could well slip in-between positions, unless you find a way of subsiquently securing it in position.

Sorry, can't be of more help
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[MarJay]

Swaffs,

I'm not sure that Huggers meant for standard CBR6's and Custom made Renes mix...

If the hugger touches the tyre then some very strange things can happen, as I had the misfortune to find out! Basically, my Pyramid Plastics hugger on the Daytona touched my tyre for a short period of time after I removed the wheel to change the rear brake pads. It made that part of the tyre really greasy and I almost crashed a couple of times when leaning to the left. Not pleasant.
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[swaffs]

ok here's my plan I think.
cutting it on the right hand side seems like the way ahead, to avoid the exhaust (unable to move link pipe) however i still have the issue with it touching the wheel.


I can't push the hugger out on the right with specers because of the exhaust, so it needs to be pushed from the left.

https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger6.jpg

If I move the hugger inside the bracket it actually straightens it up nicely;

https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger8.jpg

but then I have another issue...
https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger9%7E0.jpg
(hugger highlighted in yellow)

I'm happy it's far enough from the chain however the bolts on the sprocket are VERY close.

so i think a little bit hacked of here:

https://www.swaffs.co.uk/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Hugger7.jpg

should do the job.


This does seem like a lot of work but, it's the only way I'm going to get a hugger to fit.

My friend has a pyramid hugger and it fits using the same brackets so that's not going be any different.

Swaffs
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[Bendy]

I sent a Powerbronze one back cos it didn't fit, rubbed on the tyre no matter what we did with it.