Tighten your windshield

[rusty]

As most of you know its hard to keep the windshield tight on the 250B at least is is on mine. The little brass inserts kept working their way back through the rubber grommet.

Well I had been thinking how to keep it tight, and I had a brain storm. I went to Harbor Freight today to find some plastic plugs that you use to hang pictures in sheet-rock, the kind that expands when you put a screw in them, Found a box that had 501 pieces for around $9.00 so i bought them. When I got home I removed the windshield and got took the brass inserts out of the grommets and found a size that would work in the grommet, it turned out to be the smallest one, blue in color. I tried the small screw for it but would not tighten enough, then I went for the largest screw in the box. Had to hold the fastener a little till the screw started into it,, but once it started it tightened up pretty good, seems real solid now, I used the rubber washers also so it could move a little. Took it for a short ride and all seems good. will know more tomorrow seeing how i will be going on a longer ride.

When i told my wife where I was going she went with me, shes liking the ride more each day, I had to buy her a new helmet last week also. Got her one like mine a Vega summit II modular. My Son got it for me for $73.00 and its $120,00 at the shop he works at, its good to know someone to get better prices on when you are on a fixed income.

Hope this helps someone a little, Have a nice ride

rusty

[rusty]

The wife and I went for a 65+ mile ride today througt the hills and the windshield stayed tight, seems to have fixed it, We really enjoyed the ride, went by the town where I lived when i was 8 yrs old, every thing there is gone now except for a couple house, this at one time was a large coal company town, not anymore. but still was a nice ride.

Remember its all about the ride

Rusty

[scooterollie]

Rusty, good idea. Thanks for sharing!!

[glassvial]

Pics?

[rusty]

Im getting ready to do a 4000 mile report on my scooter and it will have all the mods, with pictures, I have done to it, so far, air filter, 12 v plug, antenna, headlight bulbs, volt meter, rear tire, tighting windshield, I thinks thats all for now, scooter is running fine, very pleased with it.

Rusty

[glassvial]

Thanks, looking forward to it. I just can't seem to visualize this mod for some reason. Pics should clarify for me

[robthegaffer]

If any of you guys have a Qlink windshield, you also realize that it is not the best design in the world. Constant variable wind makes it vibrate until all the lockdown points have loosened. The first step ... just rip those round silly plastic locking handles off ... there is NO way that you can hand tighten them enough to really lock. I took my channel lock pliers and tightened the plastic handles until they came off. Underneath the plastic is a very nice steel hex fitting. It is the same size as the hex fitting underneath the locking cylinder where it attaches to the rear view mirror holding gizmo.

Next, I took the entire windshield off the scoot, and completely apart. Because of the thin black finish, it was easy to see a dimple mark on each of the hex lock down positions ... even the tiny ones behind the four rubber dampered attach points where the windshield attaches to the two vertical mounts.

I put each piece into my vise, and used the grinding edge of a large metal file to grind a flat channel where each attach dimple was. Now, all the locking points are locking into a flat surface, not a round surface as before.

I put at all back together to verify all the new ground down positions, and took it apart once more.

This time, I put it back together using thread-lok on all locking threads. Made everything snug ... waited overnight, and the next day, the entire silly contraption was locked and NOT jiggling. Now, no amount of wind and road vibration will loosen it ! BINGO !