2002 Kawasaki Concours
Episode 5 Part B
Reinstalling the Inner Right Fairing
Male Speaker: As a side benefit of this task I had to do, I have been able to inspect down there, I've got some rust on the tank down there that I better take care of. I'd seen that before I thought maybe that was just brown discoloration but further down there that's definitely rust down there I got to get that taken care of.
I didn't think about doing the video until after I took the Inner Fairing off but I will show you how it goes back together which is the exact opposite of disassembling. So pull out that in there, pops from the place, how easy it is. I've got 3 screws, I'll put them in the pocket, I'll go and see there I want to get the lamp. There's one screw out there, one screw out there, one screw right there and one screw down at the very bottom of the pocket. So 3 screws in the pocket, one screw there and one screw there which attaches to a crossing rod so you have wipe this rod out after it falls being out, to cross brace, it goes through to the other side of the motorcycle something I discovered.
Before which I'll describe in another video in the future, over here there's a crossing brace that connects this corner of the Fairing to this corner of the Fairing, keeps on tied together and rigid I guess. But that's all there's to it so I'm going to pop these screws back in, 3 there, 2 there 5 screws though. The later models of the first generation Concours have this style pocket simply pops into this blade bayonet, there's a blade or like a bayonet, plastic bayonet and that makes with the slot on the pocket, pretty easy. And you just pinch the blades together to remove it, pinch the blades together and it slides through this end and the whole cover comes off.
You can do this on the side of the road if necessary if your bulb out in an emergency it's easy as it can be I mean I wouldn't want to have to learn how to do it on the spot in an emergency. I would do it once so you see how that all goes together but once you know how to do it, it is very much a piece of cake; you can do it on the side of the road if you had to.
And I wanted to show that pointy piece of plastic again, now a good reason to do it once is to cut that god damn piece of plastic off to the joint there. There's a nice sharp point there I cut that point off because it was seriously sharp. Now it looks like that, it doesn't make I hope you can see that, it makes through a slightly inelegant joining of the Fairing under the speedometer and then tachometer under the gauge cluster. Slightly inelegant meeting of the gauge cluster Fairing with the Inner Fairing.
So what you can barely see anything there in it, it won't slit your wrists when you're trying to this back together.
Here are all the tools you need to remove and reinstall the inner fairings on a Kawasaki Concours. I used this one from the Concours tool kit. I also used a pair of pliers to extract the top pocket screw.
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