I see a place on ebay,d-z custom cycle works that says they drill out stock harley pegs.anyone try it ?

Good glad I can drill them out,got these that match my grips for $29 total!

I use my savage for around town and back and forth to work,about 5.5 mi. each way so I don't get alot of long term vibration time,we have a 1300 VTX for longer rides. boy you can feel the difference betwen the two.

weracerc wrote on 10/26/10 at 12:52:10:


+1 Inquiring minds want to know...

Take out the mounting pin, walk over to your American or metric drill bit set and pick the next size up from the pin.  

Be willing to tear up that bit, Hurley pegs have very hard and tough chrome coating and hard steel to cut through, and you are putting the entire load on the very corner edge of the cutting surface.

(which likes to dull, chip and grab on you -- breaking the corner edge off the bit is common)

If you are using a drill press, clamp the peg down so when it grabs it will simply stop the spindle.  Use a very light feed rate so the grabbing won't be so severe.

If you are trying to free hand it with a hand drill -- good luck.

Use a good bit of heavy grease when installing the raw drilled hole part -- it is going to rust eventually on the pin, but you can prevent that for a while with a liberal dose of heavy grease.

I never even noted the size -- it was the tightest next size up in either set.   It made no nevermind to me as the size of the thing as I knew it was a metric pin and I was matching to it with available bits.

I remember getting to sharpen that particular bit twice to do the 4 pegs though.