The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

mdsphoto ... i don't have a L&M fender or a solution, but i do remember these posts that might be of interest.

This one is on an earlier bike

• Any one else get a Low and Mean front fender???

• http://rswarrior.com/forums/p/144076/1114365.aspx#1114365

This is from Low and Mean

• New Reaper front fender for the Yamaha Warrior

• http://rswarrior.com/forums/p/141653/1098575.aspx#1098575

• http://rswarrior.com/forums/p/141653/1105508.aspx#1105508

 The first link posted by Alan is mine. My bike is an 02 and the back corners rubbed when installed with no shims. I stuck 1/4 in washers behind the fender to get it out away from the tire. Start with the rear bolts and get it shimmed out to where it is even in the back. Then make sure to check the front, I needed 3 washers on the pipe side up front and had to get a longer bolt to accomodate. Most likley you will have shims behind every mount, but with a little tinkering I got mine to sit dead even, took it on a good hard test run with no issues. If you need any assistance shoot me a p.m. I'll see if I can get one of my co-workers to take a pic of it installed today at work, as I have no camera, or no cell phone for that matter.

Even with all mounts shimmed there is a small ammount of waggle down towards the bottom, but they never touched once...even at 100 mph

 Thanks Alan for posting the low & mean posts. I never knew that the front wheel was off centered.I went out and measured the wheel and mine is a little less than an 1/8 inch offset to the left side.I would like to know why yamaha could not center the wheels,but I bet I will not get any kind of answer from them.

dano102:

  The first link posted by Alan is mine. My bike is an 02 and the back corners rubbed when installed with no shims. I stuck 1/4 in washers behind the fender to get it out away from the tire. Start with the rear bolts and get it shimmed out to where it is even in the back. Then make sure to check the front, I needed 3 washers on the pipe side up front and had to get a longer bolt to accomodate. Most likley you will have shims behind every mount, but with a little tinkering I got mine to sit dead even, took it on a good hard test run with no issues. If you need any assistance shoot me a p.m. I'll see if I can get one of my co-workers to take a pic of it installed today at work, as I have no camera, or no cell phone for that matter.

Even with all mounts shimmed there is a small ammount of waggle down towards the bottom, but they never touched once...even at 100 mph

Damn.  A fender built specifically for the bike should not require this much shimming!

dano102:

 The first link posted by Alan is mine. My bike is an 02 and the back corners rubbed when installed with no shims. I stuck 1/4 in washers behind the fender to get it out away from the tire. Start with the rear bolts and get it shimmed out to where it is even in the back. Then make sure to check the front, I needed 3 washers on the pipe side up front and had to get a longer bolt to accomodate. Most likley you will have shims behind every mount, but with a little tinkering I got mine to sit dead even, took it on a good hard test run with no issues. If you need any assistance shoot me a p.m. I'll see if I can get one of my co-workers to take a pic of it installed today at work, as I have no camera, or no cell phone for that matter.

Even with all mounts shimmed there is a small ammount of waggle down towards the bottom, but they never touched once...even at 100 mph

 Yeah, forgot to mention, fork guards are a no go.

@ Oldman... Thats what I thought too, but they did have a hell of a time making them from the sound of it, I'm gonna see if I can come up with a black sleeve instead of using stainless washers for asthetic purposes, the only place they show is where I had to use 3.

mdsphoto:

...... Agree with Oldman, a custom built fender for the bike should not require that much work to install.

There should be a disclaimer by L&M if the fork guards can't be used .. if you reviewed the photos in their post there aren't any guards installed on either version!

AlanH:

mdsphoto:

...... Agree with Oldman, a custom built fender for the bike should not require that much work to install.

I agree too .... i suggest you send a PM to Low and Mean of your authored post and url so that they can respond if they aren't aware of the fitting problem.

There should be a disclaimer by L&M if the fork guards can't be used .. if you reviewed the photos in their post there aren't any guards installed on either version!

 Hey guys, We did have a tough time with this fender, but the end result was the fender did fit perfectly on the bike. If your having issues there's a couple of things to check. If the fender is pulling to one side. We first suggest sliding the fender in place without the bolts in, look and see if it's pulling to one side or the other. If the fender is off set to one side this could be from the mounting brackets pushing on the back side of the fender. The only area that should be touching the fender is around the bolt holes. Now sometimes the bolt hole area could be a little to thickand cause an issue to. So if your shimming your fender, you probably just need to sand the backside of the fender to off set it correctly.

We check fitted this fender on three different warriors, one of them had the front wheel on backwards which screwed us up in the begining. We know these fenders are straight, we check everyone, sometimes there's slight differences between model years.

 If you bought one of our fender and your having issues, please don't hesistate to contact us 928-255-0230 it's a great fender and you love it when you get it on.

 Here's a link to a Yamaha Warrior front fender comparison video we just finished.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEkC35jXpkM

LM

I'm impressed by the L&M response.  That's a sign of a top knotch vendor.