air box bolts spinning

Silver bullet once wrote that he spun them out with an air gun. I gather a high speed drill could do the same. The question is do you spin out anti clockwise? I know its a dumb question but I want to get it right.
Cheers guys.

Yes, anti clockwise

I've got one that spins, near the bottom.
I can still squeeze the filter out from the top and wipe down the inside. For now...

Thanks guys. Unfortunately my spinners are evenly distributed so no sneaky sliding in or out for me unfortunately-dang.

I've had similar situations where I drilled the head off the bolt to get the panel off, then locked a set of vice grips on the plastic surrounding the spinning nut to back out the rest of the bolt. Then drill/pin/epoxy/whatever it takes to lock that nut back in place and use a new bolt with a little anti-seize on it.

Hi Glen,
I'm the bloke on the 630 who had a chat with you a couple of years ago at Zig Zag. I just got my bike back from Northside Motorcycles today after a month of them trying to figure out how to solve the airbox spinning nuts problem, plus a few other issues.

They ended up drilling out all of the screws & putting in new bolts from the rear, welded/Devconned in somehow, so now I have nuts to undo instead of screws. I haven't checked what it looks like yet as I've been working all afternoon, but I'm very much looking forward to being able to perform this basic air filter maintenance for the first time in 3+ years!

Regards, Russell

I used stainless crimp clamps on mine. They seem to be holding up well.

Hi Rus what did Carl charge you to perform the airbox fix.

Hi Glen,
I'm not sure what the cost of that component was as I had a fair bit done, including:
New chain & sprockets
New rear tyre
Fixing "spongy" clutch
Service
Fixing problem with metal oil strainer that perished leaving lots of metal in oil
But I believe the main time consuming part was trying to devise the air box fix. They had the bike for 5 weeks, which would have added to the cost.

The cost itself was just under $2200, $1500 of that labour, so not a cheap exercise.

I've attached page one of the invoice which describes what they did to the airbox.

Lol i had same issue i tried a impact driver no luck high speed drill yep no luck again so thought bugger it got shot of the whole thing rollin wid a 45degree uni filter probly lost little on the low down power curve but nothing noticeable

3 of mine came out as well. Put them back in using gorilla glue and, so far, they have not loosened up.

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