Giant's Own Mudguards - No Instructions

CleeRider
CleeRider Posts: 304
edited March 2013 in Road general
Just received some of these with no instructions what-so-ever:
http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Giant-Road-Bike ... _34189.htm

I have installed them but I have no way of knowing if I have done it right - I can't find anything online.
The stays attach to the guard with some silver bolts but the bolt is only threaded half way. This means that they don't in fact become tightened and therefore rattle around noisily on a rough road.

If you have installed these guards yourself, is this correct?

I suppose I could buy some washers to pad it out to make it tight but have no way of knowing if this would be the wrong thing to do???

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  • SoSimple
    SoSimple Posts: 301
    Got them on my Defy and the nut should tighten right up. It may be that you have to use some persuasion as perhaps it self taps? Just a thought. My LBS fitted mine when I bought the bike. If its any consolation they charged me full price less 10% so you've got a good deal.

    . Once you're sorted, they are brilliant- hardly notice them and they do exactly what they're meant to so keep at it and good luck!
  • Lycra-Byka
    Lycra-Byka Posts: 292
    If its a self tapping type screw/fixing, just use some elbow grease.
    If its not DONT !
    Is the fixing bottoming out? ie too long
    If so cut it size.
    Post a picture of the fixing itself on its own and I'll be able to help.
  • CleeRider
    CleeRider Posts: 304
    The silver nut (that tightens on to the screw with eye for the stay) is threaded to half of it's depth and then there's a plastic ring for the latter half. As you can see from the 2nd image, it's not tight to the bracket on the mudguard and therefore ratlles around. Why is the plastic insert there?

    My other question relates to the 1st image - should the stays protude so far compared to the stays in the first image?
  • Greg-46a
    Greg-46a Posts: 24
    I'd guess they're nyloc nuts.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyloc_nut

    Fitted SKS guards to my old bike this morning, so I know how much of a pain fitting mudguards can be...

    EDIT: re stay length, the stays on the SKS guards needed trimming with a hacksaw.
  • CleeRider
    CleeRider Posts: 304
    Yes that's exactly how the nuts look.
  • Lycra-Byka
    Lycra-Byka Posts: 292
    Grab the stay by hand and tighten the nut with spanner nice and tight.
    The plastic insert in the nut stop it loosening through vibration and twist.
  • thescouselander
    thescouselander Posts: 549
    Looks ok although you need to do the nuts up more. The plastic ring is just the nyloc material - keep going until tight. On my mud guards the bottom of the plastic caps just touch the metal brackets.
  • CleeRider
    CleeRider Posts: 304
    Lycra-Byka wrote:
    Grab the stay by hand and tighten the nut with spanner nice and tight.
    The plastic insert in the nut stop it loosening through vibration and twist.
    So I should tighten so that the screw eats into the nylon?
  • thescouselander
    thescouselander Posts: 549
    CleeRider wrote:
    Lycra-Byka wrote:
    Grab the stay by hand and tighten the nut with spanner nice and tight.
    The plastic insert in the nut stop it loosening through vibration and twist.
    So I should tighten so that the screw eats into the nylon?

    Yes, that's it.

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