Some thoughts on fairing brackets
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I'm not sure the verticals will break now, as the weak points were indeed very weak, but time will tell. It did occur to me that they're purposefully engineered that way. One person on another thread thought HD might've done that to allow the brackets to break before something else more important did, like the fairing plastic. Or, perhaps as a means of keeping warranty costs down. As you suggested, if a plastic part on the fairing breaks, like the point at which the brackets mount, it would require a new inner fairing. Brackets are cheaper to replace than inner fairings.
I can't see that as a reason to engineer a weak point into the bracket, especially given the frequency of the breaks, but who knows. Since the problem is not new and HD doesn't seem to be upgrading the part, maybe there is a good reason for their reluctance to improve the design.
Some others have installed o-rings between the brackets and the mount to reduce vibration, but I wouldn't think that would make much of a difference, so I didn't try that. I did think about that or a rubber washer, however.
I can't see that as a reason to engineer a weak point into the bracket, especially given the frequency of the breaks, but who knows. Since the problem is not new and HD doesn't seem to be upgrading the part, maybe there is a good reason for their reluctance to improve the design.
Some others have installed o-rings between the brackets and the mount to reduce vibration, but I wouldn't think that would make much of a difference, so I didn't try that. I did think about that or a rubber washer, however.
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