OK I know everyone has broken supports and have fixed them one way or another BUT has anyone REPLACED them, with the new supports, themselves??? If so how difficult is it? What do I need to watch out for and do I need any special tools?
Thanks for All Your Help now and in the pass!

What a GREAT Forum!!!

 

By looking at it it looks like you only need allen wrenches. 3 bolts ??? seems pretty simple...I decided to fix mine with a homemade fix. worked great...free VS $60.00 i did buy the horizontal bracket $10.00 but fixed the vertical mount. I feel i fixed it to be tougher than the EOM bracket. It's way too thin to do the job for the life of the bike. Broke at 35k miles.

 

Thanks! I fixed the one side (vertical) but thought I would wait and replace them all at the same time. The new supports look a little diffrent so I hope they'll last longer. I have 29k now so if they last that long I might now have this bike by then.

 

Anyone else?

 

Replaced my horizontal ones. Was a piece of cake, took like 10 minutes but I don't remember the cost but it was not enough to be shocking I think they were like $15 a piece.

 

Yeah I'm not worried about those and I don't think the verticals are going to be to hard either. I'll let you know tomorrow. If I got to do it I'm going to do all four.

 

Do one side at a time. The hardest part is getting the damn rear bolts off the radio! If you have the passing lamps you will have to remove the bolts on those as well because they anchor through the brackets. I believe your clutch cable is going to be ziptied to the left bracket and your fairing harness interconnect is ziptied to the right so make sure you have some zipties on hand to reattach them.

 

The horizontal one is easy. The vertical is a little harder, but very doable. I did it while on a trip and all I had was the tool kit provided with the bike. Dawg is right on with what you'll need to do.

 

OK I replaced all four this morning. Right side broke about two months ago and I found the left broken this morning, which I through because of the way the fairing was moving and shaking.
It took about an hour an a half. My clutch cable was through the support so I just cut the support. Nothing really hard I would give it a 6 out of 10. One thing I found was to pull straight up on the support once you have everything unscrewes, snaped off and/or cut off. And put the replacement back in the same manner, Straight down.
So let's see how long these last. The right side replacement looks a little different then the left at the top screw hole. So I think it's the NEW upgraded part but the other looks the same. The horizonals look different then the old ones also.

 

+1 what DAWG said as that rear radio screw is a PIA if have large hands. Had the wife put get that one started. Clutch cable is indeed tie wrapped so have to disconnect the cluth cable from the hand lever