Corbin Seat Install

[hypo]

So the Corbin seat doesn't exactly fit straight from the factory... but here's some pictures of what I pulled out of the box in a side by side comparison:
















The stocker rear tabs fit perfectly, the metal Corbin tabs are fully extended and don't quite line up.




The front tab looks kinda wide, and does NOT reach down to that metal hook/tab that the stocker fits into... much thicker metal, probably not easy to put a z bend into, but thats what it needs... it needs to go down 90 degrees, then forward 90 degrees, about a quarter inch kick, which is impossible with that thick of a metal.

[BeachinFZ8]

Those rear tabs are installed upside down - just like mine were!!

Turn them over and the seat will drop down correct and match angles up front with the tank.

Thanks for doing a proper job of photographing this seat before having to start smacking it around to get the fit right.

Your bolts for the rear will be a 1/4 inch too long with the Corbin - get a stack of washers until you can get shorter bolts.

[hypo]

I'm pulling out the 1/4 - 1/2 inch washer piece from the stockers....


/negative


I'm going to the store and getting an M6 .5 inch bolt so that it fits into that nut properly. leaving the stock set all together properly.

[hypo]

So the front tab on the stocker is 1.25" wide. which is exactly how wide the lip on the reciever is.




Corbin's is 1.5"... but it might be a bit of extra leather.

[BeachinFZ8]

They should give you a free saddle for schooling them in the complex art of tape measure operation!

[hypo]

HA!

so I left the pieces as they were (didn't flip them upside down) but like was discovered earlier, you can't fit the front tab under the lip... so I insert the BACK END first, slide it deep back, but the tab (2) settles ON TOP of the "latch" piece... not under it.








I may take some vise grips to the tab piece and try to make it fit under the hook/lip...




and there's a DEFINITE GAP between the front lip and the tank.




HERE ARE THE MEASUREMENTS... that is some THICK metal on that tab people. it DOESN'T BEND or WEDGE very easily:

[BeachinFZ8]

Excellent job photo-documenting Corbin's issues with the fit of the seat! I really should have done the same when I received mine, but was pissed off and on a mission, so I just fixed it and went riding. I still need to have another go at it and do something to resolve the vibration problem, probably some "D" shaped rubber weather stripping or such down the frame rails to de-buzz the thing.

[Camo]

Thanks for all that info guys. Guess I'm not rushing out to buy one of these with my Xmas money just yet...

[Hoover]

Did you buy both seats? I only want the rear one to switch out when my wife goes with me.

I will be brutally honest, the quality of the seat is shoddy, cheap looking and amateurish.

I think Corbin rushed it into production.

[hypo]

Just bought the front seat.

I like the quality of the look. I have read on LOTS of sites and their own, that Corbin makes their "fittings" onto the frame very freaking tight. I still think they missed it on this one... the tab is too wide and doesn't dip low enough. But once it fits, I think it will be just fine... but yeah, maybe they rushed it.