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Hello, I have a 1998 Harley Davidson Standard, I took the inner and outer fairing off to change the stock handle bars to a pair of LA choppers bars. while re-installing the inner fairing I notice that the inner support left side upper mount location was completely broken off and missing, (honestly not sure if it was like that before I took it apart and never noticed) so my questions are A) can the inner and outer fairing be put back together with out this support location and if not B) has anyone ever completely removed the fairings and gauges and just ran the front end like a chopper? I'm interested in constructive advice on how I can get past this point.
Thanks for the responses, I apologize for not providing a photo, here is a photo to help confirm what I have broken is what you guys are referring to, This is a photo of the right hand side of the inner fairing with the upper mounting point still intact This is a photo of the eft hand side of the inner fairing with the upper mounting point broken off and missing.
Hi @Scojo64 . Had one mount on the inner fairing side crack and the other side completely broke out like yours. I was lucky enough to find it with all the parts still there. Here's a thread I created with pictures and a write up for how I fixed mine. Did not want to go through the hassle of removing and replacing the entire inner panel. Also had to use an angle bracket and fabricate a repair for broken tab on one mount.
I have an '08 FLHT, and naturally, that bracket broke first year I had the bike. Those polymer brackets weren't around then, not that I knew of. Rather than spend extra to replace it with another of the same quality, I used a couple cheap angle brackets that cost about a buck and a half for 4 of them. Drilled the appropriate holes in the existing bracket, bolted them together with the 1/4-20 nuts and bolts .Dremeled off the excess. Into it for under 5 dollars total. All these years, and 140,000 miles later, still solid, and haven't had any problem with them at all. Might not be all that pretty, but who's gonna see them?
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Need help regarding fairing removal
