Source for those wretched rubber well nuts

[headshrink]

+1 me too, except I only got one extra...
I think they want to make a point of customer service. It sure is nice having extras on hand, and I will certainly buy from desmoparts again next time.

[Bo21]

Check out your local Fastenal for any nuts and bolts. You have to buy package quantity as they are a wholesaler. If they don't stock it, they will order it in to the store.

M5 well nut P/N 11120408
M6 weel nut P/N 11120410

www.fastenal.com

You can also buy metric socket head stuff already chromed if you want to replace any bolts for looks.

They have stores in most major cities.

[glitch]

I replaced two decayed/shredded wellnuts on each side of the upper rear fairings (each side, near the taillight cover).

I don't know if they are suitable for all uses on the bike, but I found ones that worked at my local Ace's Hardware (in Oregon).

The label for the compartment on the inside of the tray on the "wall of fasteners" read:

56204121
Metric Well Nut
Grip Range .015 - .192"
5mm
$0.69 each

They also had 4mm and 6mm versions as well.

[headshrink]

Nice - thanks for the tip!

We have a local Ace too, that has an amazing assortment of fasteners of all kinds.... we are talking 10X what Lowes and Home Depot has. Well, maybe that is an exageration, but 5X isn't.

[shortstuff]

Great find- mine were disintegrating within a year and now that I'm going back to do some bodywork I'll be armed and ready

[kazam58]

I had a couple of mine disintegrate on me as well. When I went to the dealer they simply gave me the rubber wellnuts from a yamaha, they're cheaper (not really cheap, but cheaper) So if you want to buy them locally, that's another route you can take.

[headshrink]

Not a part to buy OEM or from a dealer. I think my local harware store (ACE) even has them on the cheap.

[adouglas]

Originally Posted by headshrink

Not a part to buy OEM or from a dealer. I think my local harware store (ACE) even has them on the cheap.

Unlikely. They're metric.

[headshrink]

Originally Posted by adouglas

Unlikely. They're metric.

They do have metric

However, you may be right about THIS product. I have never looked for well-nuts specifically at ACE, since I ordered directly from Desmoparts.

My local ACE has a kick-arse fastener section; it is almost Smithsonian worthy. It is the only reason to go there. HD and Lowe's usually disappoint in this department, so I goto ACE when I need the harder to find stuff. I would go more, but it is farther. I digress.....

[Banzai]

click here for the cheapest price, fair and fast shipping, on well nuts

This link just can't be posted enough. I order stuff on Saturday, have it in hand by Thursday, including powder coated bolts. I used to order from Desmo, but found bikebolts to be cheaper and faster.

[CZroe]

Still wanna know... what constitutes a full set?

Originally Posted by Banzai

click here for the cheapest price, fair and fast shipping, on well nuts

This link just can't be posted enough. I order stuff on Saturday, have it in hand by Thursday, including powder coated bolts. I used to order from Desmo, but found bikebolts to be cheaper and faster.

You mean, after shipping? They aren't cheaper beforehand.

[CZroe]

So, what am I ordering from BikeBolts? M5 or M6 or both? How many? I just want to have a complete set before I take my fairings off.

[Kitdog]

I blew one of my windscreen wellnuts yesterday, so I ran up to cyclegear and purchased a windscreen bolt kit for 15 bucks, it came with 8 well nuts and 8 aluminum screws, the well nuts for the windscreen fit the fairings also, I tried them, its a little expensive for 8 but is better than 4.95 for each from the stealer.

[want1sobad]

Originally Posted by CZroe

You mean, after shipping? They aren't cheaper beforehand.

yes, desmoparts overcharges for shipping, making bikebolts the overall cheaper choice.

[headshrink]

I found a couple more well-nuts on the bike last night that I didn't previously know where there. Their wasn't much left of them to get a good measurement though. One set was in the tail, holding the fairing pieces on; and the other piece was under the passenger pegs, securing the mud flap. Does anyone know the sizes of these well-nuts?

[dubojr1]

Originally Posted by k4m1k4z3k

I got my wellnuts from http://www.bikebolts.com. They're 67 cents apiece with free shipping on orders over $10 and then i used this coupon for 25% off: http://www.bikebolts.com/Forum_Produ..._Bolt_Kits.htm also got replacement push rivets from there (they're actually screw in rivets but still more durable) and colored fairing screws (the M5s work but i took them off because the button heads are small and looked like awkward little buttons and the M6 heads are too small to hold the fairing w/o a bushing or washer)

Apparently they have gone up since you purchased. Looks like they are $.98 now for M5's.

[headshrink]

Originally Posted by headshrink

I found a couple more well-nuts on the bike last night that I didn't previously know where there. Their wasn't much left of them to get a good measurement though. One set was in the tail, holding the fairing pieces on; and the other piece was under the passenger pegs, securing the mud flap. Does anyone know the sizes of these well-nuts?

Anyone?

[dubojr1]

Originally Posted by headshrink

Anyone?

http://www.cheapcycleparts.com/model...semblies/25710

[headshrink]

Originally Posted by dubojr1

http://www.cheapcycleparts.com/model...semblies/25710

I think the fiche I checked along time ago didn't actually say the size. The supplied CCP fiche lists the ones in question as as 5MM (92210-0498). I think this is the same as all the others (with the exception of windshield, but they still work there IIRC).

When I origonally pulled my tail and mud flap apart it looked different than the other 5MM well nuts, but they were so disintegrated that it must have led me in the wrong direction.

I guess this simplifies things. Thanks!

[Choter]

On sale now so less than a dollar a piece bolt and well nut

http://www.cyclegear.com/spgm.cfm?L1...tem=MRX_AWK1_G

[CZroe]

Originally Posted by Choter

On sale now so less than a dollar a piece bolt and well nut

http://www.cyclegear.com/spgm.cfm?L1...tem=MRX_AWK1_G

Thanks, but does it really contain 8 like they say? IIRC, the ones in store only had three, maybe 5, and the one in the pic only has 5. I think they are wrongly counting the ones pictured in front.

Is shipping free?

[Choter]

I just bought one locally when I replaced my windscreen to the ZG DB and it did come with 8 washers(plastic) 8 bolts super light weight compared to stock(re-used stock instead), and 8 well nuts.

[CZroe]

Originally Posted by Choter

I just bought one locally when I replaced my windscreen to the ZG DB and it did come with 8 washers(plastic) 8 bolts super light weight compared to stock(re-used stock instead), and 8 well nuts.

I thought that the windscreen used different wellnuts than the rest of the bike, right?

[Choter]

They are all the same, These well nuts for the windscreen, the two on the tail, and the ones in the mud splash thing on the back for rear tire are all 5mm well nuts I am 100% sure because I have replaced them all and use this one same kit.

[Ichiro]

Best price I have seen is here. Twenty five (25) M5 wellnuts for $5.60 ! All sizes available.

http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/product/4646/

[kobachi]

Originally Posted by CZroe

I thought that the windscreen used different wellnuts than the rest of the bike, right?

The nuts are the same. However, the bottom two bolts on the windscreen are longer. Most of the fairing bolts are 5x16mm, but the bottom two windscreen bolts are 5x20mm.

[CZroe]

Originally Posted by kevlar250

Kawi had a problem with many rubber parts in '08 & '09. They even had a recall on the KLR650 as the rubber turn-signal mounts would just disintegrate, you'd come out in the morning and they'ed just be hanging there by the wires. Wellnuts, clutch cable boots, cover on the starter's power cable lug, all of them looked like they'ed been baking out in the sun for 10 years.

Well, this is pretty much confirmed. No one had ever touched my front fairing and I recently took it off for the first time. I found that the two that hold the headlight in have never been touched and yet they were completely rotten despite protection from the elements and no direct sunlight exposure. My rubber trip meter button cover/dome/bulb thing was also rotted open and the rubber boot on the engine side of the clutch cable rotted off long ago. The rubber on my shift pedal is also almost completely gone. I discovered that, of the 14 well nuts I found, only 4 could be used again. The two cheaper ones on the windscreen and the two on my LH Right fairing (likely replaced by a dealer during a dealer service).

These are the 14 total rubber well nuts that I found:
2x in the tail fairings under the passenger seat/solo sport cowl.
2x in the undertail, one of which requires removing the right-side passenger peg (you can leave your exhaust "floating")
2x in the RH lower fairing
2x in the LH lower fairing
2x in the windscreen
2x in the fairing stay under the windscreen/upper fairing (longer bolts from the bottom of the windscreen)
2x inside the upper fairing for the headlight mount

Originally Posted by seis gunnar

Andrew,

Thanks for the putting the leg work in and sharing the info.

When I originally read your post I was thinking you guys should be more careful. Then when I went out to work on the bike, I tore one up.

As my Dad has always says, "Only two types of people in the world; those who have and those who will."

Definitely not your fault. I've now found several that have never been touched that were completely torn and rotted into two.

Originally Posted by glitch

I replaced two decayed/shredded wellnuts on each side of the upper rear fairings (each side, near the taillight cover).

I don't know if they are suitable for all uses on the bike, but I found ones that worked at my local Ace's Hardware (in Oregon).

The label for the compartment on the inside of the tray on the "wall of fasteners" read:

56204121
Metric Well Nut
Grip Range .015 - .192"
5mm
$0.69 each

They also had 4mm and 6mm versions as well.

Definitely didn't have them at the Ace I visited in San Diego. They had a similar standard one, but not metric.

Originally Posted by Ichiro

Best price I have seen is here. Twenty five (25) M5 wellnuts for $5.60 ! All sizes available.

http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/product/4646/

Link isn't working and I can't find them by searching.

For search results purposes:
wellnut wellnuts well nut well nuts well-nut well-nuts

[Momaru]

For what it's worth, the wellnuts I ordered from desmoparts (OP) a year and a half ago are still in perfect condition, after at least three dozen fairing removals.

[ForceofWill]

I'm missing a couple of these and I have no idea where to find more. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, they're the little rubber things that sit on the backside of the fairings that the smaller screws with washers on them screw into.

There are 2 for the front screws in the fairings that mate up with the front fairing on each side, and I believe the windshield uses them too. I'm missing three, they just broke off. I have no idea where to order these or how much they cost. Anyone have an idea?

[pop0tart]

Well nuts. Expensive as hell from kawi. Available in standard sizes from any hardware store on the cheap, but you'll need an imperial bolt to match.

[seis gunnar]

Search Well Nuts, and there should be at least one thread available. Fastenal carries the metric sizes, but when I inquired, the closest store with any was in PA; I think. It was going to take a week to get them in their store, and I was headed out of town a few days later, for a couple weeks. Then never got around to going back.

[pop0tart]

Every well nut on my bike went bad. When I see a well nut, I know to get out the standard allen keys set because the nut and its accompanying bolt are of the standard hardware store variety.

[Nemesis]

You can buy these at your local hardware stores (i.e. Lowes, Ace Hardware, etc.). They may not be the same as the OEM ones but they still work.

[Alex]

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[ForceofWill]

Thanks Alex, just ordered 30 of these for $25 shipped. Should hold me over for a while.

[jax]

thankx for the link

[headshrink]

Desmototo always throws a couple extra in for free

[THE BIG SITT]

This is a stupid question, but I do not care. I am wanting to replace, or at least buy enough to replace, all of the well nuts for the fairings/windshield/ect. What sizes do I need? How many do I need? I've tried looking at the links in this thread but I'm not finding much of anything.

Also, I wouldn't mind getting a replacement bolt kit, so if the site with the well nuts also has a bolt kit, that'd be swell

[headshrink]

Here is an option: http://www.bikebolts.com/

[kobachi]

Originally Posted by headshrink

Here is an option: http://www.bikebolts.com/

I bought one of their kits. The well nuts are fine but the bolts are a different style and (for aesthetic reasons) I don't like them as much as the OEM bolts.