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OPR's Memphis shades fairing fix

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Old 04-20-2010, 01:24 PM
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Default OPR's Memphis shades fairing fix

I bought the Memphis shades fairing only to be dissapointed as of how steep the angle of the windshield is.

I fixed this in 2 ways, by making the fairing itself more straight and by moving also the angle of the windshield.

1) I went to my local ACO hardware store and bought a 1" coupling nut. I used it in the upper brackets to push forward the fairing thus fixing the angle.

See picture:
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/r...Memphisfix.jpg

So the order would be:
Fairing stud
Washer
Coupling nut
washer
bracket
washer
hex head bolt


2) I used plastic separators (see picture), a total of 3 which make an angle to push forward the shield itself.
Had to replace the regular bolt/ plastic nut for regular bolt/ nut.

http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/r...emphisfix2.jpg

With this, the angle moved quite a lot to my liking and it costed me only $10 to fix.

What do you think ? This shows the new angle:
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=Newangle.jpg
 

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Old 04-21-2010, 03:37 AM
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Default I found the same issue as you

and solved it almost the exact same way. Then I found some new mounting brackets from MS that are adjustable. You can pitch the whole fairing forward or backward, thus making the windshield angle more or less depending on your desires.
 
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