Sancho Panza
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Just fitted a touratech oil cooler guard today. it was a bit of a fiddle and had to butcher it a bit, but OK in the end.
TT advise slackening off the cooler fixing bolts and tilting the cooler down to allow the guard to be slotted in. Got the side panels and beak off and found the fixing bolts for the cooler were screwed in from the back into the welded on nuts visible at the front. (bike is an 07 GSA and other bike may have a different arrangement)
The bolts are torx type and to get a driver bit onto the bolt heads needed a suitable socket set with and extension piece which I didn't have to hand. And even if I had, there was very lttle wiggle room to undo the bolts, especially if they were rusted in.
However, I found that the upper crash bar could be released a bit by removing a couple of small bolts holding it to the frame towards the front and then pushing it down slightly to give more room below the oil cooler.
The cooler itself could then be tilted down very slightly, allowing the protector to be slid into place. Nevertheless, before I could get it fully home, I had to cut off most of the small folded-over tab at the top/rear of the protector to be able to slide it in over the oil cooler, as there was some ironwork in the way. Then a final fiddle to strap it in with two cable ties and voila! Job done.
I have posted this in case anyone else finds this job difficult (you can't always rely on the TT instructions). Hope it helps.
TT advise slackening off the cooler fixing bolts and tilting the cooler down to allow the guard to be slotted in. Got the side panels and beak off and found the fixing bolts for the cooler were screwed in from the back into the welded on nuts visible at the front. (bike is an 07 GSA and other bike may have a different arrangement)
The bolts are torx type and to get a driver bit onto the bolt heads needed a suitable socket set with and extension piece which I didn't have to hand. And even if I had, there was very lttle wiggle room to undo the bolts, especially if they were rusted in.
However, I found that the upper crash bar could be released a bit by removing a couple of small bolts holding it to the frame towards the front and then pushing it down slightly to give more room below the oil cooler.
The cooler itself could then be tilted down very slightly, allowing the protector to be slid into place. Nevertheless, before I could get it fully home, I had to cut off most of the small folded-over tab at the top/rear of the protector to be able to slide it in over the oil cooler, as there was some ironwork in the way. Then a final fiddle to strap it in with two cable ties and voila! Job done.
I have posted this in case anyone else finds this job difficult (you can't always rely on the TT instructions). Hope it helps.
