Re: gas caps
hossman said:
V Man
What is involved in installing those new caps. I love the looks of them.
Hossman
When I bought them I expected to unsrew the old and screw in the new. The right side did exactly that ... direct replacement. I'm not sure "why" :? but the left side was different (at least on my bike). There were two issues. (1) The threads would just start to catch and then hang up TIGHT

I compared the new with the old and I noticed the new cap had more thread on the bottom - not allowing it to drop in the tank far enough. I took the new cap to the grinder :shock: and removed the lower 1 thread ... then took a file and cleaned the lower section up. (2) After removing the lower threads the cap would turn onto the gastank easily until it seated

BUT now I was unable to push the center pop up portion down far enough to "lock" it down! :x My left side tank has a plug welded in filler neck ... it was high enough to interfere with center locking in place. I looked at the cap again and there in plenty of meat on the center section. I had two choices either try and bend the plug a tiny bit, remove the plug (did not want to do this and was afraid it may break trying to bend it too) or grind 1/16" off center portion. I took it off the center portion and ALL works well and looks good.
You have to understand though that I have terrible luck
I would still expect these caps to be a DIRECT replacement for the OEM caps. The right side WAS ...
my left side need slight modification :? (writing this and reading this makes it sound bad - in reality it was no biggie)