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Always misery and suffering with Harleys.  I guess it builds character.  The little stop screw that holds the pin in won't thread in easily.  I clean up the the threads (12-24) and run the screw into a die.
I rant and rave about how bad Loctite is and how you shouldn't glue your bike together and then I whip it out and use it.  Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.  The is one of the few places I think loctite is a good idea.  Countersink-head screws are notorious for backing out.  The military won't let you use them in high vibration environments unless you use little floater nuts so they self align.  Dale my buddy that retired from the GE electric motor plant explained that the countersink never lines up perfectly with the hole.  It either presses on one side of the screw head or the other.  Depending where the threads start you have a 50-50 chance the screw will vibrate out.  The other 50% of the time it actually will tighten under vibration.  Unfortunately having your side stand fall off only 50% of the time is not a viable option.
OK the darn screw still didn't want to thread in even after I chased all the treads so I went into the parts stash and found this nifty jiffy stand I scored at a swap meet.  It's a bit longer so I figure if I did weld the bracket in perfectly this will compensate for the 21 inch wheel in the front.  It's also got the little tab on the end that makes it a lot easier to find the stand with your heel and swing it out rakishly as you bring the bike to a stop at your local hangout.
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