Good morning guys. I've been meaning to fit these crash bobbins for a while now, and since we are in lock down, I though I would spend time in the garage working on my automotive projects.
These bobbins were ordered directly from GSG, but I did have to do a euro bank transfer direct to them, which added about £20 to the deal.
The main attraction was that these do not require drilling of the fairings to fit. The instructions are fairly spares, but then it's not a hard job. They give you good diagrams and torque settings. I found did need top go back to the tool chest for various torx and hex head fittings, plus two torque wrenches, as my smaller wrench only went up to 34nm...while my larger wrenches start at 60...I needed 38....cue finding an older wrench I've had for maybe 30 years, but it still seemed to match the calibration of the lower lower settings of the newer wrenches..so was happy it was good for 38nm.
Gave the old girl a bit of a clean while the fairings were off as well....and spent some time taking off fairings again, having discovered a screw left...wondering where it was meant to go..only to find it was one tucked down the back, near where your knee would be. Still, it was a good introduction to fairing parts removal..a first for me, primarily working on old cars.
Getting stated, taking the fairings off:
On the left side, there was something that looked like a crash bung under the fairings. Sorry for the crap picture...I zoomed in on the original picture:
I had to remove this and fit the GSG asssembly:
The right side with just the fairing off
and with the GSG part in place
This one is a bit longer than the left side..
and here they are with the fairings on:
and how they look from above.
These are easily removable and since I went for the anodised black mounts, just the mounts would not be very noticeable.
Next up, a sat nav..for all that touring I planned to do and looks like will be cancelled!
