I have a couple issues regarding my fairing fasteners and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced the same issue; maybe give me a tip or two on fixes? I'll post pics when I get home this evening.

1. Left and Right fairings roll under and attach directly behind the inner fairing (underneath, aft from the front wheel). There's only two fasteners down there which happen to be the plastic plug and lock's (hate those things--worthless in my opinion). These keep backing out on me and I'm hearing the two vibrate on each other as I ride. They seem to be backing out because the left and right ferrings have aslightmold difference, so where they meetat that pointdoesn't exactly match. So there's basically a load on those two plastic fasteners all of the time.

I was thinking of using a nylon bolt and nut setup with a 3/4 nylon strip on the inside in order to spread the load between the two fasteners (reduce point-stress). What do you think? Anyone find anything that might work better?

2. Left fairing tail fastener (just behind and below the left foot peg). I noticed the fairing had a lot of playaround the fastener (basically it could jiggle about 1/8 inch in any direction). It came this way from the factory. I got to thinking that that play would allow the ferring to sit there and bore itself an even larger hole from vibration / shifting maybe even work itself into cracking. Does anyone else have this fastener loose on their ride? For now I slipped on a rubber washer between the bolt head and the fairing in order to suck up some of the play.

Thanks for readin' and any advice you may have.

 

fairing?

 

Ferring= Fairing [&:]

 

What year bike ? I have a 93 F-2 going thru the fairing bull $hit right now, the 2 plastic expansion plugs up front around what they call the air scoop. thats whatI did, an aircraft nut and bolt, just dont tighten it too much, just a hair snug so there's no play, you tighten too much and yer cracken plastic [:'(]have to replace the rubber grommets on the rear side pieces too, $3.50 a pop for the OEM parts, tryed hardware store grommets........ no go they don't fit right [&o]so orderd them, be next week

 

'06 F4I---got some nylon bolts/nuts for the air scoop going to put on right now and see how I like it.

Thanks for the input.

 

I had the same problem on my 01' F4i where the 2 fairings came together underneath.
I purchaes a couple of more of the rubber anchors/fairingbolts, (the same as the 3 that hold the upper fairng to
the side fairings). just had to drill out the tab a hair, insert the anchor and bolt it together. those plastic insert
things suck.

 

I agree... I just replaced mine as well. They were seriously pissing me off.

They work ok the first time, but after that they're pretty buggered.

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One other comment - it is a lot easier to put the body work on really loose, then snug up the pain in the a$$ lowers and inside connections. Then go back and tighten the rest up. This means you can get the front all straight where the pastics meet, then worry about the middle connections, and finally the rear connections of the front ferring.

 

zip ties! ghetto yes, but also works!

 

OK so installed nylon bolts and nuts in place of the 2 air scoop plugs. Looks ok--nice and snug. I have a ride down to Mexico next week so we'll see how it holds up.

Used 1/2 inch bolts (1/4-20) and of course 1/4-20 nuts. The 1/4-20 fitsjust aboutperfectly in the holes. Thanks to all for your input.

 

zip ties and duct tape =]