2008-2012 Honda CRF250X Stabilizer Installation Procedures
1. Remove the seat. Turn the petcock to off and take away the fuel tank. Don’t store the tank near any open flames.
2. Take away both 17mm nuts on the underside of the triple clamp that hold the inventory decrease rubber mounting cones in place.
3. The stock lower rubber cones is not going to clear our body bracket and should be replaced with the new decrease profile Scotts cones supplied in the kit. Tighten the nuts without utilizing any washers, the nuts butt immediately towards the aluminum high in our rubber cone, use a bit of grease. Perform this operation now, as you will not be capable of loosen the nuts as easily, once the triple clamp is off.
4. Remove your quantity plate, odometer cable, higher handlebar clamps and prime triple clamp by removing the 32mm nut and upper triple clamp pinch bolts. Lay the clamps and bars over the entrance of your bike out of the way.
5. Install the Scotts body bracket by eradicating the pinch bolt and spreading the bracket gently with a large blade slot-head screwdriver. This bracket is intentionally tight, align it rigorously, after which it should slide down completely and around your head tube. It have to be started straight on tank side first or it can really feel as if it doesn’t fit. It is an exact fit, so initial alignment is critical.
6. The preliminary set up of the body bracket is essential as a way to retain an extended life of your stabilizer kit. This frame bracket has a number of specifically machined angles to match the form of the Honda head tube. Preserve it perpendicular as you initially install.
7. Slide it on and tighten the pinch bolt barely, tap the bracket with a mallet to insure it’s seating utterly, all the way in which down against your head tube. Tap and tighten, faucet and tighten and examine that it is all the way down.
8. As you tighten the front pinch bolt, the bracket is pulled forward barely, seating the essential areas and aligning the tank hole. If the tank hole doesn’t line up, strive the process again until it does, or in rare circumstances, file the tank-mounting hole if necessary.
9. Do not tighten the tank bolt before the body bracket pinch bolt is tight. This places an pointless load on the tank bolt.
10. After aligned, torque the frame bracket pinch bolt to 96-108 inch lbs. / eight-9 ft. lbs.
11. The nostril of the stock plastic tank have to be reduce off. It’s a solid piece of plastic in the entrance so it can be minimize with out compromising the tank. Lower the minimal amount that still permits the tank to fit.
12. Slide the triple clamp back on temporarily. Turn the bars left to proper to make sure you have got the body bracket centered. You possibly can loosen and tap the bracket barely to keep away from the stock triple clamps from hitting the vertical tower in the event you’re misaligned.
13. Grease the floating tower pin and set up it in the tower. It’s designed to float and may always stay greased within the hole.
14. Set up the higher barclamp and tighten the 4 bolts evenly so the hole between the mounting perches is equal.
15. Set up the stabilizer utilizing the (2) 6×20 Allen bolts while aligning the tower pin into the slot within the linkarm.
