Eighteens are just like fifteens in some respects.

There's always one bolt that won't undo.

In this case, because some ham-fisted gorilla has rounded off the
allen socket bolt holding the lower cowl on.

Took nearly 2 hours of dremelling and drilling, and chiselling
beforeit disppaeared through the enlarged hole inthe cowl.

Of course, it then weas able to be undone by finger pressure alone.

Cowl now has a washer Aradited in place, and it won't be visible when
a new bolt is in place.

Foglights were a doddle to fit[1], and plug straight into the loom
extensions behind the cowl.

Switch replaced the blanking plug in the left -hand faring, and
allegedly plugs into a black 4-pin plug in the loom.

Can I find it? Can I eckerslike.

Just watched this wonderful video (5:20 - 5:40)



and there's certainly no obvious rubber boot there on mine.

Oh, well - I'm sure I'll find it later.

I believe the phrase is "plus ca change ..."

Perhaps I should have limited myself to fitting the fender extender,
after all.


[1] Unless you drop a spacer tube into the spark plug cover on the
lhs. Then you have to remove 5 allen bolts to take the cover off, but
before you do this, you have to remove the five hexagonal rubber
inserts that protect the hex sockets in each bolt. These, of course,
are a right pain to refit.

 

so who will be doing this shakedown test?

 

My heart-rate hasn't calmed down since the last one.

If I went through that again, I'd be up for a Carmichael/Hamer BOGOF
special, I reckon.

 

<snip>

I'm waiting for the "How to replace a right-hand fairing panel" thread.

 

Oh I see. I thought this was going a thread about schoolgirls.

 

Only asking, but did the lower cowl have to come off to do the
headlight conversion? In which case, I suppose, the blame lies with
Dobles, nichtwahr? And if that's so, I wonder what else they've
managed to cock up.

 

No, it didn't.

Lower cowl only covers the horns and the fronts of the cylinder heads.

There was no other evidence of butchery, but the hex socket was
totally stripped to undo. Fine for doing up. It *looked* fine, too.

New one (well 4 - as they seem to fit everywhere, including the CB13)
ordered from Uncle David, before they go pre-2002 only on June 1st.

 

.... and I did. Buried, it was, behind the air vent ducting.

All illumination present and correct.

Now to sort out alignment, and refit cowl.