Hey just thought I'd give my 2 cents on this subject. First of all if you don't use a jack you are gonna have a bad time. If you don't have a floor jack available use a scissor jack from your car or truck. If possible have a friend help steady the bike or use tie down straps and anchor them to anything nearby that is sturdy. As seen in my pics I anchor mine to my workbench and the wheel on my daughters car. Use masking tape or duct tape above and below the fender strut To keep from scratching the paint. Apply the tape lightly so it can be easily removed. Before jacking it up loosen the strut bolts with a T45 torx socket. Then the signal bolts with a 1/2 wrench. After breaking all the bolts loose carefully begin jacking it up until you can lean it up straight on the jack and the tire is just barely off the ground. Secure it with the tie downs or have a friend hold it steady. Remove the strut bolts on each side. After unthreading the signal bolts from the signal reach inside the fender and pull the nut plate out of the holes in the fender this will give the signal bolt more room for removal and can easily be pulled up and out over the top of the tire. If you don't pull the nut plate out the signal bolt can not be pulled out at an angle. Carefully slide one of the sissy bar brackets between the fender and strut then place signal bolt thru the nutplate, fender and thru the strutand loosely thread into signal. Reinstall the strut bolt loosely and remove the tape you put on for paint protection. Repeat on the opposite side leaving all bolts loose. After you have both brackets installed and before you tighten them install the sissy bar into the brackets with all four bolts provided. Now tighten the signal bolts and strut bolts snug making sure not to pinch the signal wires between the nutplate and fender. The nutplate has a raised part on the back end of it to hold the wires away from the tire without pinching them. Remove the tiedowns if you used em and carefully lower the bike off the jack and onto the kickstand. Now tighten all the bolts making sure neither signal wires are being pinched. Now you are ready to put a hot woman on the back and ride! Hopefully this info was of some help to you and I'm sure someone may have a better method. I install and remove mine all the time because I prefer the look without but have to have it for the OL to keep her from falling off the back. I timed myself yesterday installing mine and I did it in less than 30 minutes start to finish.

 

Nice detailed instructions Dh77. I have been considering adding a sissy bar to my Street Bob, glad I ran across this thread. Lots of good advice in here.

 

To the OP. If you're going to being installing and uninstalling this at any time here is what I did. I didn't notch the front side to slide in since I just would rather be safe with my wife's weight pulling against the sissybar backwards when I'm on the throttle hard so I really wanted more safety factor there. So as you can see I just notched the wiring and bolt holes straight down. Taking just the midway bolts out and sliding it in between the fender and the strut leaving them slightly loose upon install. Swivel the entire assembly (upright attached) down after the signal/taillight bolts are loose and just slide into place and tighten all the bolts back up. I did not use a jack. All I used for the rear bolts that made this very easy was a 1/2" box-end RATCHETING wrench. Tools out of my box to tools back into my box was less than 10 minutes and I know it's still safe for my wife when I'm hotdoggin' around with my buddies from light to light. I'm still not happy with the extra work every time I put the wife on back so I'm going to a detachable setup anyways. Hope this might help out for a future mod. Quick and easy if you have a grinder with a cutting wheel.