19th August 2021, 10:38 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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Originally Posted by MikkiJayne
Five of six rivnuts in place, but the last one is blocked by the bonnet switch. This bracket is to the far left of the frame on the FL, clearly moved so they could get tool access to insert the rivnut.
This one will need to be set the old-school way. The nut in the middle compresses the rivnut against the larger nut at the left, allowing it to be set with spanners in a much smaller space than the big tool needs
Hold the bolt and the large nut with two spanners while tightening the small nut with the 3rd spanner
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More attention to detail.  Most mechanics would just bend the switch bracket out of the way to use the rivnut tool. As for the spanners, are you tri-dextrous?
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