[Ray916MN]

A Different Way

Sorry no pics.

I wanted to have upper cowling painted and removed it another way. This way does not require the removal of the mid-cowls/side fairings and upper inner covers.

1. Fish the turn signal connectors out of the little access holes in the faring and disconnect them.

2. Remove the allen bolt on the inner trim panel at the base of the upper on each side.

3. Remove the allen bolts that hold the windscreen on. This is probably not necessary, but it makes it easier to get things apart without breaking the tabs at the base of the windscreen.

3. Remove the pop fastener under the nose of the fairing.

4. Remove the nuts that hold the mirrors on.

5. Pull the turn signal/mirrors off.

6. Pull the tube off the evap canister.

7. Remove the two screws which attach the tipover sensor to the upper fairing.

8. There are 5 screws which attach the upper fairing to the headlight unit. There are two screws on the lower backside corners of the headlight unit, two screws are in upper middle to the center of the backside of the left and right side headlights and the last screw is up underneath the and between the nose of the headlights. Remove these and the upper fairing is free to be removed.

Using this approach, all the electrical components underneath are accessible, but still connected. The headlight unit can be put back on the bike with the plastic bayonets on the back fitting it the grommets on the upper fairing stay. At this time, it makes sense to carefully look at and familiarize yourself with how to fit the tabs of the headlight unit trim back into the upper fairing cowls.

To reinstall, reverse the procedure, being careful to properly fit the tabs of the headlight unit trim back in the upper fairing cowls after the fairing is completely reattached to the headlight unit and the turn signal wiring is reconnected. After the tabs are fit, wiggle the fairing and apply pressure to the headlights to get the upper fairing to pop over the mirror mounts. If the nose of the windscreen isn't flush with the fairing, pull back on the back top edge of it and it should pop up flush.

Now that I've done this twice, I can pull the upper fairing off or reinstall it in about 15 minutes.