• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

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    Thanks for your patience and support!

Tail Tidy Install Problems

B

Blackx

Husqvarna
A Class
I spent way more time than I should have yesterday trying to get the R&G Tail Tidy to fit correctly. It's just not working.

As you can see in this photo I attached the brake light to the mount on the seat lock using the supplied bracket. The seat lock mount isn't adjustable since the lock has a tab that keeps it in place so the cylinder doesn't spin.



This is what the light looks like installed. Very crooked.



And the light doesn't even seat well in the provided cut out. This is the same mount at a different angle.



Then I mount the indicator lights and hold the tail tidy up to where it will mount on the bike and the lights are touching the exhaust.



Has anyone else had these problems? Am I doing something obviously wrong?
 
Blackx said:
I spent way more time than I should have yesterday trying to get the R&G Tail Tidy to fit correctly. It's just not working.

As you can see in this photo I attached the brake light to the mount on the seat lock using the supplied bracket. The seat lock mount isn't adjustable since the lock has a tab that keeps it in place so the cylinder doesn't spin.



This is what the light looks like installed. Very crooked.



And the light doesn't even seat well in the provided cut out. This is the same mount at a different angle.



Then I mount the indicator lights and hold the tail tidy up to where it will mount on the bike and the lights are touching the exhaust.


Has anyone else had these problems? Am I doing something obviously wrong?
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Not sure if you saw this post or not??? It appears to need some modification...
http://www.cafehusky.com/threads/tr...der-eliminator-ideas.28894/page-3#post-287190
 
It looks like you have the indicators bolted to the licence plate slots! The should be 4 bolt holes lower down
 
We got one for my bike and Brother#1 tried to install it for an hour, got pissed off, and handed it over to Brother#2.
Brother #2 tried to install it for 30 mins, got pissed off, and handed it over to Dad.

Dad looked at it for 5 minutes and said "This thing doesn't fit your bike. Send it back."
 
bikehunter said:
I would also try to bend the bracket so the tail light is more central
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Yeah thought about that. Not really possible as it would have to bend side to side not up and down. I'm tempted to try and make this work somehow, although I feel out of the box a product should fit.
 
Abby said:
We got one for my bike and Brother#1 tried to install it for an hour, got pissed off, and handed it over to Brother#2.
Brother #2 tried to install it for 30 mins, got pissed off, and handed it over to Dad.

Dad looked at it for 5 minutes and said "This thing doesn't fit your bike. Send it back."
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Did you have any problems returning it?
 
Blackx said:
Did you have any problems returning it?
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Actually, I don't think we're going to end up sending it back. The box is missing, and there's some parts all over the bench and I don't know what goes with the kit. There's the frame and the light brackets and the mini license plate light all hooked together.

Does anybody want it? I mean, the light doesn't line up at ALL and looks really bad, but if somebody wants it i'd send it out for like $50 plus shipping.

How about this, i'll go take some pictures of what's out there and report back in the morning.
 
I installed the tail tidy on my Terra. The tail light bracket needs to be bent some to center the tail light. To keep it from rattling around I installed some dense foam self-adhesive strips between the edge of the light and the steel Tidy. For the amount of money it cost, I felt it was a second-rate design. There should have been some kind of rubber-edged plastic housing that attaches the stock tail light to the Tidy itself, or a different tail light that bolts to the rear. I didn't like the way the tail light finally fits either, too far into the ass'y IMO, which doesn't give enough visibility for other drivers to see. Just my take.
 
Kawagumby said:
I installed the tail tidy on my Terra. The tail light bracket needs to be bent some to center the tail light. To keep it from rattling around I installed some dense foam self-adhesive strips between the edge of the light and the steel Tidy. For the amount of money it cost, I felt it was a second-rate design. There should have been some kind of rubber-edged plastic housing that attaches the stock tail light to the Tidy itself, or a different tail light that bolts to the rear. I didn't like the way the tail light finally fits either, too far into the ass'y IMO, which doesn't give enough visibility for other drivers to see. Just my take.
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Someone needs to manufacture an alternative. If the Tail Tidy and and the stocker setups are not cutting it then there should be a huge market for an alternative. I'd buy it.
 
Scutler said:
there should be a huge market for an alternative.
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Thats, unfortunately, is really relative. I would call 'huge' the market for BMW GS's or KLR's... Its a niche bike with comparatively minor demand and new Husky owner made little to change it. Thats why we would probably not see many aftermarket parts. Unless the bike is continued next year.

Tail tidy works good for me with really small adjustments (drilling). Maybe I will add some additional mud flaps later on.
 
Scutler said:
Someone needs to manufacture an alternative. If the Tail Tidy and and the stocker setups are not cutting it then there should be a huge market for an alternative. I'd buy it.
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This does not have anything to do with the trail tidy per se, but some of the side rack manufacturers have a support bar in the back which supports the oem rack really well.
 
Kawagumby said:
I installed the tail tidy on my Terra. The tail light bracket needs to be bent some to center the tail light. To keep it from rattling around I installed some dense foam self-adhesive strips between the edge of the light and the steel Tidy. For the amount of money it cost, I felt it was a second-rate design. There should have been some kind of rubber-edged plastic housing that attaches the stock tail light to the Tidy itself, or a different tail light that bolts to the rear. I didn't like the way the tail light finally fits either, too far into the ass'y IMO, which doesn't give enough visibility for other drivers to see. Just my take.
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I'm sure I can make it work, but agree that for the price the design could have been better.
 
Once you get the bracket sorted and it all looks resonable, rack fitted etc you will be happier. Nothing worse than seeing things close up that's not good but the overall effect is everything!
 
here is how I "Fixed" mine :D

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Abby

Stick with it, I fitted mine a few months ago its a real pita to fit
but with some bending and a bit of patience it does fit and looks
fine. I got my dealer to call R+G direct to warn them that they
would have to alter their jig we were told I was the only one that
had complained. I have fitted lots of R+G stuff to various bikes
and never had a problem but they have got this one way wrong.

Scotty
 
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