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REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« on: October 22, 2013, 03:55:42 PM »
i've got s ervice manual it shows the screws to remove but that's as far as it goes.it don't illustrate it comming off anyone know of a good way so you don't break something

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP..OK I GOT IT OFF
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2013, 04:31:01 PM »
ITS OFF

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2013, 07:39:24 PM »
   that little Y section you tooki off, put a little lube on the rubber to make it easyer to take off next time, they break off very easy,

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2013, 05:41:36 AM »
What is the trick to removing the front cover?  I tried, but was unable to figure it out.  The manual wasn't much help.  The downtown is much harder to remove the body panels than either of my Yamahas.
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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BODY COVER HELP
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2013, 10:47:21 AM »
Having just done this I found the most help here: it's not in English, but visually it's quite helpful, although some of the shots are quite dark!

From memory you have to remove the windscreen, the coverings under the footrests/ running boards, as well as a bunch of screws, and as mentioned above, under the windscreen, between the headlights there's a Y shaped piece of black (on my black and white one it's black) about 20cm/10" long that you have to carefully pull out horizontally. Under here are a couple of nuts that help release the front fairing. I'll try to attach a couple of photos later on to help, I was installing a thermometer on the handle bars.

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2013, 03:53:39 AM »
Just watched that you tube video and that seems like a lot of work to get to the front headlights to change a bulb. I've never had to change one yet and I didn't think it was so involved. My Yamaha BWS125 was easy to do.

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2014, 01:41:38 AM »
I see no reason to remove the lower side panels.


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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2014, 09:57:12 PM »
step 1

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #8 on: March 05, 2014, 09:57:41 PM »
step 2

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2014, 09:58:04 PM »
step 3

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2014, 09:58:34 PM »
step 4

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2014, 09:58:57 PM »
step 5

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2014, 10:36:42 PM »
Thanks for the photos mjrii87. That's a really big help as I have not removed the front panels yet.

Great job. Thanks again.

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2014, 10:39:05 PM »
Glad to be of help!  ;D

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Re: REMOVING THE FRONT BAODY COVER HELP
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2014, 12:45:54 PM »
I'm installing heated grips on the DT and the dealer tells me I have to remove the front fairing.  Are those all the steps required to remove the faring or are there others?  Please advise. 

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