Been trying to get this part of the project taken care for quite some time.....The seat grommets!
Karen redid the seat for me long time back, I have been trying to find suitable Grommets though for like the past year :doah: I actually found them right away last year, but what they are being sold as and the descriptions were usually pretty vauge and did not give actual measurments. Costing $15 for a package of 5 of them (best deal I could ever find) I wanted to be pretty sure they would work.
Here is a pic of the orginal as it came off the pan, Its all mangled but I did my best to get it off the pan in one piece for reference, and of course the other is the replacement I found....I choose to use a stainless washer so I would not have to really worry about it rusting or anything.
The replacement is actually sold as Musical drum vents used for making a or rebuilding a drum. I sucked it up recently, ordered a set of 5 and crossed my fingers they would in fact work. they did, in fact other than being a little longer (which turns out to be a good thing as you get more edge once crimped and rolled on the backside) they are a great match :thumbsup:
To install them I made a "tool" by using a bolt, a sealing washer flipped backwards (it had a V shape to it and a tight fit to keep it centered....and its all I could find that would work in garage this morning :laugh
, and I threaded and old school locknut on backwards so the the flare could be utilized (I ran a thread chaser through the nut a few times to get through the crimps so it would thread on the bolt easy):
crude, but funcitional, you just run the bolt through the grommet when installed through seat and tighten the bolt and nut up a bit with some wrenches, the flares will keep it centered and it rolled the inside lip over perfect :thumbsup:
I installed them just like the OG came off the seat before
Came out pretty good
You would think that this might get me motivated to finish the bike....Not really :laugh: