Sissy bar and rack.

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Lacking a step-by-step and being mostly not very mechanically inclined, I'm wondering if I'm up to the task . . . .

I'm hoping y'all can help me out with some basic questions . . . . I took a few bits off today, and when I figured out I was uncertain how to proceed, I put the parts back together to come here to ask questions . . .

I thought the side rails simply had to be reversed (despite chrome not as nice on both sides) and bolt it up. But when I took it apart, I found the holes on the side rails don't line up with my bike. See the pic here:




Am I supposed to use the front hole in the side rail, and drill a new hole to fit the bolt location for the rear of the side rail? If not, how does the fitment work?

Y'all talk about "cutting" on the siderail piece. What specifically are y'all cutting - IOW's, where on the chrome side rail are we cutting - and how did y'all cut it? What tool did you use?

The way I thought this was supposed to work is that the two bottom bolt holes on the side rail would line up with the CB, and then I would have to simply drill another hole here on the back of the side rail to properly line up the sissy bar incline - IOW's, I thought the only place I was to drill another hole was here:



From the parts I have, it looks like I'll have to drill in two places on each side rail - is that what y'all did?

Also, on the CB where the rear of the side rail must be bolted, there is another bolt head located just below the hole I thought we were to use for this fitment. Does that get in the way?
Where does the side rail get inserted with the bolts?

The front bolt looks like this:



Does the side rail go outside the spacer directly under the CB bolt head?

The rear bolt and spacers look like this:



Where does the side rail go here, outside both spacers next to the CB bolt head?

So sorry for these basic questions team . . . .