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Like many folks out there I reckon when I bought my bike a short while ago I discovered that both the left and right plastic "chrome' side covers had broken top locking nubs that insert into rubber grommets on the frame.
With great luck the PO left the broken tips inside the grommets so I went over to my local Autozone store (open on Labor Day BTW) and picked up some Permatex Plastic Welder 2-part epoxy.
My repair is not cosmetically pretty but I think that once the stuff cures overnight it will be strong enough to last a long time. Besides it's on the back side so only I (and now all of you-lol) know that it's there.
When I bought my '99,it had a broken tab on the left chrome cover, and it was not in the grommet. But I was able to buy a good cover.During service on the bike I thought I was going to break the rest of the tabs off trying to remove them,so I have since put a small dab of silicon grease on each tab when I reinstall them,making them much easier to remove.
Using my near Sherlock Holmesian powers of deductive reasoning, I accept that I have used an excessive amount of that plastic welder epoxy - LOL
The truth is that I have never had success saving 'unused' portions of this sort of product (it hardens in the tube before I get around to using it again ) - so I simply emptied all the contents on a paper plate and mixed it all up.
The end result is my forming it into equal amounts of 'structure' during the under 5 minutes of working time that I had. If this repair ends up failing down the road, I'll know that I didn't use enough. If it doesn't fail? Then I'll have achieved my goal of only fixing the thing once.
