I recently purchased a Motosportz steering damper for my 09 KTM 250 xcf-w. When I tighten the two bolts that hold the lower mounting bracket for the pin, my steering starts to drag quite a bit. If I loosen the bolts then the steering goes back to normal but then the pin bracket is loose. Is this normal? Never fitted a steering damper before and I'm not sure what to expect. There's only two bolts to add so you would think the installation would be a no-brainer. I pretty sure it's operator error right now. Thanks for the help, Lee
Shorten the pin that is in the frame clamp slightly. It sounds like with your installation the pin is to long and when you mount the damper it is pushing the arm up and into the bottom of the damper body. I saw this happen on one other install. Take the pin out and grind a little off the bottom. Call me 360-597-4364 if you need help
Thanks for the idea, unfortunately it was binding with only the lower bracket installed. Didn't have the mount on. Spent some time looking at it last night and I think I got it working now. There's a steel stamped cap that sits on top of the steering head bearing. It appears as if the lower bracket was pinching that cap. I took a file to the cap and cleaned up the side of it, maybe because it was a stamped part it was not uniform. After filing all the way around the side of the cap and then reassembling it is working as intended. Thanks Lee
