icedog75
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I've been chronicling the repair of the damage to the front tupperware, driving light and front stay on the EOM site. It seems more appropriate to be here so I'm going to let the old thread fade away.
To recap, while returning from a very enjoyable EOM I took a fairly low speed high-side in a parking lot in Tennessee. I emerged undamaged but the bike was not so lucky...
As you can see the impact of the aux light bracket on the pavement damaged the mirror mount (attached to the front stay) and then broke the upper cowl. Lots of distortion to the other attached panels. I started pricing parts before I started disassembly and it was starting to look expensive...$235 for the front stay and $90 for the cowl.
After disassembly I was relieved to find that the damage to the stay was limited to only the mirror mount...
With a little bit of trepidation (the bike by now was sitting on the center stand and a hydraulic jack with the front wheel and fork tubes off) I used a 12 inch crescent wrench to coax the mount back to a 90 degree angle. Although it's pretty thick (3mm or so) it went back into shape pretty easily. After test fitting the front tupperware it now looks like this...
That looks pretty near perfect to me. I'm pleased so far.
The wiring looked pretty nasty when I got all that plastic off....some of it the previous owner...much of it mine...
So now's the time to re-imagine the installation. My aux lights were running independent of the normal headlight circuit from a relay triggered by a handlebar switch and signal voltage from the running lights. OK, but the switch box takes up valuable real estate on the left grip. After hearing about an interesting install by "No One" (aka Jaxson for those of you who attended EOM) on his 08 I'm headed in an entirely different direction. I intend to replace my hi-lo headlights with a low-beam only HID installation which is still triggered with the OEM headlight delay (lights off till engine running) and augment that with an HID (aux light location) driving light install for hi-beams. I'm hoping to use the existing relays but H2 (hi-beams) is not a simple relay. On starting the bike it's not energized allowing H1 to light the low beams. When the hi-beam switch is activated it disconnects the low-beams while connecting the hi-beams. It may prove to be simpler to leave the factory harness untouched and to make a new harness with new relays. We'll see.
Oh...and while I have the bike apart it's time for Spiegler brake lines and maybe an "all balls" triple tree bearing set and probably a few other things I haven't thot of yet.
Later.
To recap, while returning from a very enjoyable EOM I took a fairly low speed high-side in a parking lot in Tennessee. I emerged undamaged but the bike was not so lucky...
As you can see the impact of the aux light bracket on the pavement damaged the mirror mount (attached to the front stay) and then broke the upper cowl. Lots of distortion to the other attached panels. I started pricing parts before I started disassembly and it was starting to look expensive...$235 for the front stay and $90 for the cowl.
After disassembly I was relieved to find that the damage to the stay was limited to only the mirror mount...
With a little bit of trepidation (the bike by now was sitting on the center stand and a hydraulic jack with the front wheel and fork tubes off) I used a 12 inch crescent wrench to coax the mount back to a 90 degree angle. Although it's pretty thick (3mm or so) it went back into shape pretty easily. After test fitting the front tupperware it now looks like this...
That looks pretty near perfect to me. I'm pleased so far.
The wiring looked pretty nasty when I got all that plastic off....some of it the previous owner...much of it mine...
So now's the time to re-imagine the installation. My aux lights were running independent of the normal headlight circuit from a relay triggered by a handlebar switch and signal voltage from the running lights. OK, but the switch box takes up valuable real estate on the left grip. After hearing about an interesting install by "No One" (aka Jaxson for those of you who attended EOM) on his 08 I'm headed in an entirely different direction. I intend to replace my hi-lo headlights with a low-beam only HID installation which is still triggered with the OEM headlight delay (lights off till engine running) and augment that with an HID (aux light location) driving light install for hi-beams. I'm hoping to use the existing relays but H2 (hi-beams) is not a simple relay. On starting the bike it's not energized allowing H1 to light the low beams. When the hi-beam switch is activated it disconnects the low-beams while connecting the hi-beams. It may prove to be simpler to leave the factory harness untouched and to make a new harness with new relays. We'll see.
Oh...and while I have the bike apart it's time for Spiegler brake lines and maybe an "all balls" triple tree bearing set and probably a few other things I haven't thot of yet.
Later.
