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Anyone that has these, do you have problems with the pegs slipping while riding with the blade out? I can not seem to get them tight enough to stay in place. Any fixes for this, or just a live with it thing?

Trick that I heard of on this forum, take a dremel tool with a cut-off wheel and cut some ridges along the long axis of the peg adapter, and then cut some similiar ridges on the inside of the peg housing. Think of it like redneck knurling. Once you've done this, liberally apply red loctite over the adapter, then torque the thing down and let sit for a few hours for the loctite to cure. I did these for my dually ISO pegs and stirrups, and the stirrups don't rotate on me anymore.

Thanks for the input RS. I knew this had been a topic before, for the stirrups. I just could not find the thread when I did the search. If I remember right, some even drilled holes and used some kind of pin to hold them. No dremel for me, so maybe I can use a small 3 sided file.

I have the same problem. I heard the vendor has made some improvements on these. It doesn't bother me too much, since I hardly ever deploy the stirrups anyway.

I'm sure a knife edge file would work, I think someone even gave them a few whacks with a cold chissel to get the knurl in there. Or if you have some stamps around, the letter I works well too

Thanks to all for the tips and help. I think I can make some kind of mod that will work.

The folks at kuryakyn said to take a cold chisel to um. That was the offical fix at the time I put mine on a year ago or so. I think they have a splined unit now.

These pegs are terrible. I have mine in the mail being shipped back. If you spend 120.00 on a pair of pegs, the last thing I should have to do is put a chisel to them to make them work. Well I got off my high horse and did.. I chiseled the hell out of my pegs and "roughed" 'em up.. to no avail. I would not suggest these pegs to anyone. Poor design. however.. Kuryakyn has good customer service. They just dont really make any "triumph ready" parts.

fishercat
did you use the red locktite to help hold them in place? I am going to take a good look at mine today and try to figure out which route to take.

I said that tightening then up real good worked a while back. But i take that back. Even tightened as tight as i could get them WITH locktight they eventually started turning. I agree this is pathetic that a manufacturer would even sell such nonsense. Otherwise i love them tho, so the dremel is coming out as soon as i get a chance. I wouldn't mind it so much if they were cheaper, but $100 is a pretty hefty sum for pegs with a design flaw let alone if they were w/o problems.

Use plenty of red stuff, don't be cheap. You can always break the peg loose later with a rubber mallet. The redneck knurling helps a bunch, but you will need the loctite.

Agreed. I'm wondering if anyone has gotten them lately to know if it is fixed. I heard buzz about them fixing it a while back.

I knurled them with a Chisel and applied red locktite. If I did it again I'd use a dremel. I ordered a set of ISO wings a couple of months ago for the rear pegs and they came with a dimpled surface. I just applied red locktite and it seemed to work fine. My wife loves the ISO wings on the rear pegs.

A chisel will created a dimple and a raised surface, maybe that's better than just notching with a dremel?

well I chisled some, filed some, locktite a lot. Did not work, they still moved after about 6 hrs dry time It was really hard to get the 1/4" chisle in the peg end. The outside part was easy. I did get some good marking on it with rasied edges and at first it was nice and solid. but...... did not last long. One last try, I will drill through both connecting ends and either pin or allen set screw it. If that doesnt work, weld and really mess the thing up

Well, today i dremeled them and i believe it worked very well. But what i noticed is that the metal is VERY hard and it takes a good bit of time on each groove to make sure they are reasonably deep. At first i didn't make them deep enough and had to go over them again. I ended up with very little of the original surface area untouched so that it was very toothy for lask of a better term. To put it simply, i really had to chew the surface up a lot. I did try and do a sort of spline pattern, but it's impossible to get it accurate so i just did the best i could. I used a fiberglass cut-off wheel, and after doing the adapters i had to take the wheel to some hard metal objects for a few minutes to wear the wheel down so it would fit inside the female side in the peg. I can't imagine doing this with a chisel or other hand method because the degree to which it needs to be gouged would take hours to get anthing close at best.

In any case, i haven't got them on the bike yet. But after just tightening them lightly by hand (usually put them on the bike and use a vise grip on the allen to really torque it down super tight) i couldn't move them even using the stirrup extended to hold onto for leverage and a screwdriver thru the adapter to try to turn it. Couldn't do it with all my strength. So i figure once they're tightened on the bike AND with locktite they should impossible to turn.

Thanks Johnny
Maybe the best way for me to go is just fork out the bucks for a dremmel. Just hate to part with my hard earned cash for a very seldom used tool. But I guess $60.00 - $70.00 would not kill me, just make me do one of those "aakkkkk!!!" things when I see it laying around and not used in a year.

Try Kragen auto parts. I have a dremel, but at work i have a cheap no name "Nikota" i got from Kragen for $20 with a number of bits ! I hate to say it, but i really can't say the dremel is any better. I've had 2 other dremels break on me, and while this Nokita is only a year and 1/2 or so old, it's still running great after a good amount of use. And since you say you'd use it very little it would probably outlive you ! Actually it won't, because once you own a dremel you will find many uses for it and won't wanna be w/o it.

Anyway, not sure if they still have them at Kragen or if they do whether the price is the same. But if not check the other chain stores including non-automootive like target and such. I guarantee you can find a much cheaper brand of rotary tool than dremel.

Ahhh.....just googled it....Nokita is out of business. But some places still seem to have em like this one for $23....

http://www.ringmastertool.com/PAGES/nikotapages/toolskits.htm

Just do a google search and you'll probably find a ton of different cheap ones. And at $23 who cares if the company is gone? Thats the cost of 2 of the more expensive dremel bits alone.

You won't believe how many times you will say "hey I could just use the dremel to do that..."

Exactly. You never know how incredibly usefull they are till you have one. If they wanna take mine away they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands. The only drag about dremels is how fast you can wear out bits with all that speed.

By the way, put the pegs on the bike after the dremel job and those suckers ain't gonna move w/o being directly in the middle of a nuclear explosion ! tighter than a.......uh, well, you know.

Good to know! I have a dremel, and I want those pegs.... Tax return I guess I think on the dremel website you can buy new motor brushes...

man o man, this site costs me bucks!! I am going to bite the bullet and go down to the local hardware store and get the dremel later today (local around here is at least 20 miles). I am going to have to ride bad blue, what a shame eh? Between do-dads, performance, tools, books, videos and misc other things, one MUST keep an eye on the pocket book/credit cards!! Anyway, thanks to all of you responding to this thread. I was getting pretty bummed out about the price of the pegs and them not working. In my mind I will just add the cost of the dremel to the cost of the pegs (and laying down the bike, which is the reason I replaced them). Call it bucks for the cause and keeping the wheels turning.

You won't be sorry. It'll come in so handy for so many years and save you so much elbow grease that the initial cost will seem like the bargain of the century.