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  • #1

    LH Side cover removal

    Hey so I'm trying to get my LH side cover off so I can paint it and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas to removing it without the key....I have no Idea why my doesn't fit. I have lubed it up and screwed around with it but I don't want to break it!
    Thanks in advance!
    Cheers!
    Tim
    1979 XS1100F
    4 into 1 Jardine, single POD airfilters, custom paint
    Branded title
    Work in progress since 2000

    We have to get on! We have to get on! We have So much time and so little to do!.....strike that, reverse that!! :P
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  • #2
    Key only goes in that lock a tiny ways, then twist. I'd try just spraying a bunch of WD40 in there then insert key and try rocking key back and forth to maybe free things up internally. Have never had that issue, so have no other 'trick' suggestions. Just avoid braking that plastic latch!
    81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by flyingdakota View Post
      Hey so I'm trying to get my LH side cover off so I can paint it and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas to removing it without the key....I have no Idea why my doesn't fit. I have lubed it up and screwed around with it but I don't want to break it!
      Thanks in advance!
      Cheers!
      Tim
      Hi Tim,
      I'd forgotten about that quaint little keyed latch because it's been so long since, as my battery & toolkit live in the sidecar these days, I'd needed to remove the left-side cover.
      OK then, is this the first time you've tried to work that latch?
      It's supposed to work with the bike's ignition key.
      The key goes in vertically and only about half way.
      It's supposed to turn 90ยบ towards you to un-latch the side cover
      Did you get a second different key when you got the bike?
      If you've been PO'd and the latch needs a key you don't have
      or if the latch is irretrievably too full of crud to turn you can
      use a right-angle drill to drill the lock's wards out so a screwdriver
      will work it.
      If even a screwdriver won't turn it, saw through the cover's latch plate
      ear, remove the cover, dismantle & fix the latch now that you can get at it
      then re-attach the sawn off lug with an aluminum plate and pop rivets
      (You are going to re-paint it anyway, right?)
      Fred Hill, S'toon
      XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
      "The Flying Pumpkin"

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      • #4
        Hey Guys!
        thanks for the input! I was using the ignition key(s) and I have had it off in the past so I don't know what has changed....BUT I managed to open the lock with the key for the ignition of my boat! I had to get it in there just right but it turned it like it was made for it! the ignition key(s) wouldn't do it, even after I fiddled with it and lubed it really well... so, I will just have to keep the boat key around...great excuse to keep the boat right? lol!
        Cheers!
        Tim
        1979 XS1100F
        4 into 1 Jardine, single POD airfilters, custom paint
        Branded title
        Work in progress since 2000

        We have to get on! We have to get on! We have So much time and so little to do!.....strike that, reverse that!! :P

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        • #5
          Since you got cover off, I highly recommend you remove that lock assembly from the cover and drop the whole thing in a small cut of Evapor-Rust for a few hours. Remove and wash out with water and blow-dry. Might be surprised when it now easily rotates when ignition key is installed.
          81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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          • #6
            roger that!
            Thanks!
            Cheers!
            Tim
            1979 XS1100F
            4 into 1 Jardine, single POD airfilters, custom paint
            Branded title
            Work in progress since 2000

            We have to get on! We have to get on! We have So much time and so little to do!.....strike that, reverse that!! :P

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            • #7
              Most welcome!........anytime.
              81H Venturer1100 "The Bentley" (on steroids) 97 Yamaha YZ250(age reducer) 92 Honda ST1100 "Twisty"(touring rocket) Age is relative to the number of seconds counted 'airing' out an 85ft. table-top.

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              • #8
                Oh, that's what that thing is . Didn't get a left side cover so I didn't know.
                All makes sense now.
                I did get a full tool set though.
                Thanks
                Mark Yac

                79 Former Police XS 1100

                Real life never quite adds up

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