Fitting R & G crash protectors

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WhiteRhino · #1 Post by **WhiteRhino** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:24 pm

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?

scottyni · #2 Post by **scottyni** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:10 pm

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!!

Gio · #3 Post by **Gio** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:27 pm

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

WhiteRhino · #4 Post by **WhiteRhino** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:49 pm

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

Pierre · #5 Post by **Pierre** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:43 pm

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