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I am just about to fit upper crash protectors (the ones that you have to drill the fairing for). I looked at the instructions last night and it sounds like a bitch of a job. Are the instructions reliable? Does anyone have any experience that I might benefit from before I start?

half a bottle of whisy each side done it for me


i got a paint pen and stuck it in the hole then it marked the panels on the insie for drilling.

checked it twice just to be sure!!

Alternatively use snopake (correction fluid), saves you buying a marker pen as most work places have the stuff. Put the bolt in the engine/frame hole then mark it up. don't have the bolt sticking out to far though, you'll distort the plastic panel when you offer it up.

Then drill a 5 mm pilot hole in the centre (so that you can see if its inline with the holes)

Dremel with a grind wheel is best (pointed one 1" wide) drilled from the outside on the plastic

I've done 4 bikes that way.

Good luck

Thanks guys. Do the new the oil and coolant parts fit OK or should I expect any problems?

Ive just moved them onto the other bike and I found it easier to stick the new oil pipe onto the lower hole, then remove the 3 oil tank fixings and push the tank down onto the oil pipe rather than trying to push the pipe onto the already-mounted tank. Its then only attached by 2 or 3 rubber tubes so its easy to force back onto its mountings.

Its the easy bit compared to drilling the holes