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Re: Top box assembly revisited



Mark, in spite of all that's wrong with these boxes, they are the best
looking. I wouldn't have any other box on my bike. Just chill out and work
with it. When it is all said and done, you will have the nicest top box I
have seen on the market. I love mine. Oh, I cussed a lot putting mine
together.
Mike
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Collett" <yzf1k@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 5:46 PM
Subject: Top box assembly revisited


> Hello all,
> I'm just here to vent.  Finally got my top lid back from Triumph which
> finally had the appropriate clearance holes.  But... had to modify them
> anyway, as they were off center from the bolt locations.  Okay, fine.
> Went to attach the plates for the latches to the top lid ... uhhh..
> where are they?  Tore through everything I had.  Nope, no plates.  Okay,
> write that down.  So let's move on to the locks.
> The locks you say?  Unscrewed one of the screws holding the bottom
> cover on ... where's the other?  It fell off.  Why?  Because one of the
> J-type brackets was missing.  Okay add that to the list.
> So lets move on to the bottom lock.  Well, NOTHING in the illustrations
> matches my parts.  The strike looks totally different, and the lock
> bracket is reversed from the way it's supposed to look.  Well I've come
> to expect that.
> Go to install the bottom lock w/ bracket and the strike plate, put one
> of the machine screws in...  uhhh, where's the other one?  AGH! Add that
> to the list too!  To top it all off, either the bottom half, the lock
> bracket, the strike plate or all of the above have the holes slightly
> offset.  Why?  Because to be able to turn the key, I have to loosen the
> ONE screw holding it all together, otherwise everything binds.  Glad I
> spent all that money on the top case.  If the thing was only $100 for
> all maybe I'd not think it was a big deal, but I don't even want to
> remember what it cost.  I just want it to WORK!
> Gotta call my dealer Monday...
>
> Mark Collett
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> Mark Collett
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> Unigraphics CAD/CAM user!
> 2001 Triumph Sprint ST (BRG)
> 2000 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro
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