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Ok since its going to rain for the next two weeks, figured I would take the bike apart for the speaker refit. Watched vids.I have all the bolts out that I can see and the pod does not budge. There is something by the black fork clamp that there is no way I can get to. Is that one of the bolts that has to come out? This thing is solid as a rock. I have 7 bolts out so far.
Theres 3 on the top outside, 2 in the center on amp tray and 3 in the bottom near the forks. The bottom ones can suck. I use a 1/4 drive ratchet, extension and swivel.
I just pulled my pods today, the 3 lower bolts on the brake side suck.
I ended up using a small right-angle allen wrench to get in there to break them loose, all the others were pretty easy to get to with a short open-end wrench or a swivel head socket adapter on a long extension.
I got lucky and came through without letting out any blood.
Nothing yet. Can't ride cause of all the rain so wanted to make sure the guy who owned it before me didn't change something I didn't know about being everyone said it can't be stock if I can hear it at 80+ mph. But it's stock. I must have good ears.
This is such a pain in the butt I just might leave it stock. I am not going to keep doing this over and over. F - that.
Ahhhh .... don't sell yourself short. Pod R&R gets easier after 2 or 3 times. Besides that, what better way to spend a rainy day than swapping out speakers and cussing the engineers that designed that setup.
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Removing Pods
