Holy Crap!

[williegoat]

My S3 has been a little hard to start lately; then the other day, on the way home from work, the idle was up around 12-1400rpm.
I plugged it in to my laptop this morning and found no apparent problems, so I decided to clean and lube my throttle and cables. When I put it back together, I found that my throttle was sticking open, so I decided to take off the air filter (Forcewinder) to see what I could see.

The title of the thread comes from what I said when I found a small screw inside the air filter!
It was one of the screws from the throttle plate and the loose plate is what was causing my problems (at least I think so, I haven't put it back together yet).

Do you think blue Locktite is good enough to hold the screws in? Any other suggestion?

I guess the motorcycle gods are with me. It could have been a major disaster, if that screw had gone the other way.

 

[buellxb9rs]

Lox tire should be fine, as long as there isn't excess to be sucked into the engine. These engines vibrate so much locyite should be on everything

 

[luv2ride]

Dang. I need to paint my bike in blue loctite after reading this!!!! Lol.

 

[greasyxb9s]

On our racing carts we use mikini carbs and we would loctite the threads and stamp the back of the screw with a punch to spread it out just a hair.... just beware they are a real mofo to get back out and usually ruin the throttle shaft.....

 

[luv2ride]

Blue loctite is meant to be removed/broken loose with hand tools. Should be fine. The red is the high torque stuff.
Just my 2c