Fairing Removal

Okay,

Bike maintenance 101 here.

I'm not convinced my bubble is fitted 100% correct. Seems to be a bit too much of a gap between the back surface of the screen and the black plastic trim of the fairing.

So I'm looking at taking it off myself this time. If I remove mirrors, all the fasteners on the fairing and screen, should it ease off or are there any fiddly fasteneres hidden away. I can't quite make it out from the SV manual diagram.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Cheers folks

[northwind]

Conventional practice is to undo all the fasteners, then fight it for ten minutes, then find some more, and undo these final fasteners, then get it almost off but not quite, then have to put it all the way back on, and undo those final fasteners as well, then at last get it off and find you've just broken two fasteners.

Cheers Northy,

Knew i could count on the posse for some guidance.

So deck chair, coffee mug, stress ball and an inflatable hammer then.

Does swearing help at all?

Why don't you just plug up the gap with blue tack?

CAM.

On a pointy, you shouldn't need to go to all that bother to check the screen mate.

If you remove all the screen screws and then pop the parallel sided ones (machine screws - there are two "normal" screws at the top if I recall) back in just about one turn, you can pull out the rubber expansion plugs that secure the screen and damp vibrations etc. The screen just pulls out after this.

It is possible that these were over tightened when re-inserted at the original point of fitting the DB, causing them to expand at the back of the screen and push it away from the inner side of the fairing (the "Dash"). By only having the screws into the nut (bonded into the expansion plug) a little bit, you can press them (the expansion plugs) home fully and squeeze all the panels and screen together nice and close before tightening. Don't make them too tight though - it's simply not necessary.

Good luck mate,

Garry