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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2010, 09:28:25 AM »

HOW in the world did ya get to be so danged smart???  THAT is a killer idea.

Have been doing that so long don't specifically remember what happened when the first time.  It might have been some grand epiphany but more likely necessity was the mother of invention.  Probably had one with a mangled brass insert and ran a tap through it to clean it out once.  After that the threaded rod mounted once would've been the soberest idea I had.

Oh, I do always put the all-thread piece in with red loctite.  Just to make sure it won't back out with a nut sometime.  And I like to use nuts that have captured star washers on them so won't have to worry about vibrating off.  Don't have to pull them unnecessarily tight and they'll still stay in place forever.  It's all just standard 1/4" hardware.
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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2010, 04:58:56 PM »

Probably because he's been inside that fairing 56,000 times.... just sayin'. :huepfenlol2: :huepfenlol2:

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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2010, 06:30:31 PM »

Pictures of the assembly of the threaded rod, pictures????
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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2010, 09:46:17 PM »

Hell's Bell's, I've been under the hood of my last 3 Electra Glides only 46,000 times and I wern't never that smart!  Are just doin the bottom two or all four?

Just the bottom pair make all the difference you need.  All the upper ones are easy to get to, you can visualize the holes to get the screws started and if you do drop the screw the bike doesn't eat them.  Nice thing about the studs is the automatic alignment.  Shove it down until the studs stick through the holes.  Nothing to find the dark and it can't not be in the wrong place.
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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2010, 09:51:38 PM »

Pictures of the assembly of the threaded rod, pictures????

Don't have any, sorry.  It's just 1/4" x 20 threaded rod.  Or you can cut the head off a 1/4" bolt.  I use stainless bolts because I'm paranoid. 
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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2010, 10:27:17 PM »

A magnetic something somewhere is mandatory for those bottom screws.  Damn things just disappear in to a stealth abyss when they fall.  I don't mess with them though.

I toss the screws the first time I take an e-glide fairing off that I'll ever have to have off again.  Replace them with an appropriate length piece of all thread.  The threaded rod makes aligning them in to the holes during reassembly much easier.  No screws to start blindly and screw up the threaded inserts with.  And the nuts you now start using never get dropped like the screws always did as the nuts are inside the head of the nut driver.

Dang Twolane...I do this too!  When did you get so wise?   :nixweiss:
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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2010, 10:30:33 PM »

Dang Twolane...I do this too!  When did you get so wise?   :nixweiss:



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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2010, 11:00:46 PM »

A magnetic something somewhere is mandatory for those bottom screws.  Damn things just disappear in to a stealth abyss when they fall.  I don't mess with them though.

I toss the screws the first time I take an e-glide fairing off that I'll ever have to have off again.  Replace them with an appropriate length piece of all thread.  The threaded rod makes aligning them in to the holes during reassembly much easier.  No screws to start blindly and screw up the threaded inserts with.  And the nuts you now start using never get dropped like the screws always did as the nuts are inside the head of the nut driver.
Twolanerider,

Now that is a hell-of-a good idea! I always struggle with those two inside bottom screws.

Tom
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Re: Front Fairing Removal
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2010, 12:38:31 AM »

Just the bottom pair make all the difference you need.  All the upper ones are easy to get to, you can visualize the holes to get the screws started and if you do drop the screw the bike doesn't eat them.  Nice thing about the studs is the automatic alignment.  Shove it down until the studs stick through the holes.  Nothing to find the dark and it can't not be in the wrong place.
So it's kinda like puttin hair around 'em...OH NO, NOT MY INSIDE VOICE... AGAIN!!!  OUTSTANDIN TIP!  Thanks!
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