The Mustang Seat, yep again

[Vondawg]

Removing my seat this weekend armed with all this great advise/experience ...many thanks!

[ChubbyDodds]

Make sure you "chase" the treads on the bolts. You'll be amazed at the amount of metal that comes off the OEM bolts. From a machinist standpoint, the seat bosses and bolts are not close to being a "Class A Fit" As stated, finish up with a dab of Never Seize to the bolt treads

Thanks again for the excellent advice. I have the tap and die ready as well as the never seize. I have one more errand to run today then I'm back at the task at hand. My neighbors likely appreciate all your help as well as it should keep the commentary coming from the garage down to a PG level anyway!

[ChubbyDodds]

Tapped the bosses and chased the threads. Applied a little Never Seize The bolts without the seat go in free and easy. Great tip!!

Got the front of the seat in place and confirmed it is as snug as it gets. The shorter left side bolt went right in through the grab rail and seat. Snugged it a bit and was able to line up the side case release and the little tab on the back no issue. The front bolt, however, will not find its perch. There doesn't seem to be any direction up, down, left, right and combo of those that will work.

I need to have a buddy come over tomorrow so he can probably get it to go right in and ask me what the problem was!!

Until then, I am done messing with it for the evening. Maybe it's safe with just one side rail and bolt? LOL

[ChubbyDodds]

Managed to install the Mustang seat Sunday morning and just returned from a test ride. What a great seat!! Well worth the effort it took me which I am more than willing to admit being my ineptitude rather than anything else wrong. For me, it took a combination of the tapered and the OEM bolts to get everything set. Sometimes the OEM bolt would be the only one that would work and sometimes the tapered. Took a bit of trial and error to come up with the right combination.

I absolutely recommend following the members' great advice and tapping the thread bosses and chasing the threads on the bolts. A dab of Never Seize and the bolts (when finally lined up with everything) tighten right up. Without the thread cleanup, I guarantee I would have cross threaded or mangled something beyond recognition.

The seat is awesome. Eliminates my thoughts about a driver's backrest as the seat is shaped perfectly. I'm 5'11 with a 30" inseam, for reference. I seem to have slightly shorter arms than most but found the reach to the handlebars absolutely perfect. I couldn't be happier!!

I may consider selling the bike before removing and installing that seat again, though!! JOKE!!!

[cosborn]

Fantastic mate, really happy for you. Mustang are still making my seat (on back order) don't know how long it will take to reach Australia by camel but I'm looking forward to the day even more now.

As i said previously, I will try all your fitting suggestions and if they work for me I'll send our collective suggestions to Mustang.

Chris

[cosborn]

Sorry to all if i've posted this twice.

Well my new deluxe seat arrived at 1230 today and it was installed by 1500, I think that must almost be a record, having ached over the possibility that i would spend days trying to get it to fit, it went on almost without a hitch.
It did take me a while to line up the bolts and i eventually went back to the originals and looking at both types, the originals have a touch more thread on them, may be able to change them later once everything beds in.

So what did i do:

Read all the hints on the forum
Removed the old seat
Marked the bolt holes with painters tape
Tapped and died the bolts and holes, this made a big difference
Started all the bolts
Checked that the panniers opened
then put the rails on
Checked that the panniers opened again
tightened all bolts fairly tight, i will keep tightening them as the seat beds in

Now i've got to wait 3 days as my driveway has just been concreted, oh well i can still sit on it.

Chris

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