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Leather and Lace
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Goleta, Ca
Moto: 2005 R6
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You would think switching out a windscreen would be a quick swap, right?
![]() ![]() First issue...the pre-drilled holes in the new screen were too small. Luckily my husband is really handy and he could drill the holes a bit bigger. Once the holes were drilled I was able to pop the rubber covered nuts into the holes. From there I tried to line up the holes to get the little rubber pieces to pop into the holes on the upper fairing. But that was not as easy as it may sound! ![]() ![]() ![]() I should of taken pictures because this is hard to explain... Anyway...I decided to just leave the bottom right nut as is and not have it go through the upper since there is a rubber washer that covers it and you would not be able to tell. After I decided to leave it I get to the top right piece and realize the rubber cover on the nut has a rib on it (the rubber is scrunched up) and it does not look long enough to go through both the windscreen and fairing. I wanted to make sure that this one did go though both pieces so I decided to swap the bottom right and the top right. WELL...once I got the bottom one out (the one I cannot really reach behind) I could NOT get the new one in! ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally this morning after another 15-20 minutes of twisting and pulling the thing with a pair of tweezers I FINALLY got the bitch through the windscreen. At this point I do not CARE that it does not go through both pieces. ![]() CLIFFNOTES... Before... ![]() During... ![]() After... ![]() One more thing I found out. Because of the awful blue windscreen I never realize that the screws holding the thing on are also blue! ![]() ![]() ![]() I will get better pictures this weekend...hard to take pics on the little patio. And for whoever mentioned that the smoke screen is too dark at night/in full tuck...the blue was much darker and harder to see though than the new one. ![]() |
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Looks GREAT!
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Looks way better than the blue.
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DefenderOfTheBuelliverse
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I just took the whole front fairing off mine when I changed it.
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Leather and Lace
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Of course I couldn't get the gauges off w/o removing the aforementioned fairing anyway.
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Hey did you guys drill bigger holes in the fairing to put the well nuts in? OMG! Typically,the well nuts go into the fairing stay/support and/or the windshield which you slide behind the fairing and then you put the screws into the fairing and into the well nuts which pull the windshield up tight to the fairing! No wonder you had such problems!
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