Doing the initial maintenance on my touring 1000 yesterday, I removed the right side foot well and I found what you see in the attached photos… Yep, the front drive shaft is rubbing on a frame piece. It looks like it’s rubbed about half way through the thickness of that bracket already with a little under 400 miles on the odometer. I also have to wonder what kind of undue stresses were put on the front diff and u-joints due to the drive shaft being flexed out of shape before the bracket wore down.
I don’t think this is acceptable on a brand new machine. What do you guys think I should do at this point?
