cv_rider
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I'm stuck in the middle of a mod gone bad!
In attempting the simplest and fastest of all mods, putting a new windshield on, I've gotten myself well into a rat hole an on '07. One of the six "well nuts" that the windshield screws into (the lowest one on the left) got pushed through the front fairing and fell inside. I thought I was good when I finally managed to retrieve it from the top of the headlight case, but realized inserting it again (which is done by pushing it from the inside of fairing though its hole) is very problematic because the fairing blocks good access to that area.
So I have to remove the fairing, it looks like. I've removed the inner liner that covers the headlights. I've removed about four screws that attach the fairing to the frame. There is one screw behind the instrument cluster that is still holding the fairing in place. It looks like the instrument cluster needs to be removed to access that final screw. But the two screws that hold the instrument cluster in place are directly behind the cluster, and seem only to be accessible if the front fairing is already removed. Catch-22.
So I'm hoping someone has an idea of how to procede.
In attempting the simplest and fastest of all mods, putting a new windshield on, I've gotten myself well into a rat hole an on '07. One of the six "well nuts" that the windshield screws into (the lowest one on the left) got pushed through the front fairing and fell inside. I thought I was good when I finally managed to retrieve it from the top of the headlight case, but realized inserting it again (which is done by pushing it from the inside of fairing though its hole) is very problematic because the fairing blocks good access to that area.
So I have to remove the fairing, it looks like. I've removed the inner liner that covers the headlights. I've removed about four screws that attach the fairing to the frame. There is one screw behind the instrument cluster that is still holding the fairing in place. It looks like the instrument cluster needs to be removed to access that final screw. But the two screws that hold the instrument cluster in place are directly behind the cluster, and seem only to be accessible if the front fairing is already removed. Catch-22.
So I'm hoping someone has an idea of how to procede.