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NO... Not what your thinking, I would have had one loose if I DIDN'T buy her... but the set screw in the Chrome Lifter Arm Cover Part No. A9738075 was loose or missing...
Well let me tell you, that little metric set screw was tough to find a replacement for! Lowes didn't carry metric set screws and the cap screws I bought at first looked like ***** on that nice clean cover.
So I went to the Triumph dealer today (Got mine used from the Suzuki dealer, so they haven't seen this bike since it was sold new in December 2003)
First of all I didn't know that was an accessory piece and not standard equipment, so they couldn't find it on the computer. Then we looked it up in the 2006 accessory book and the number showed A9738090... Well that number sent the computer into an endless fruitless search for some reason. I happened to spot a 2005 accessory book and saw that it had a different number associacted to the cover and finally we found it in the computer, with set screws, but of course the screws aren't available separately.
Then I stopped at my wife's work to look in the Grainger (industrial supply) catalog... plenty of standard set screws in the 1700 pages, no metric ones...
I ended up finding 5mm metric set screws at Home Depot, in black instead of chrome for around 50 cents for a pack of 2. I bought two different lengths comparing them to the thickness of the cover so I would be sure to have the correct length.
I did stop back at the dealer to let them know where I found them so any of my fellow PackMates won't have to search like I did.
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