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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 05:19 PM
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can anyone shed some light on how hard or long of a job it is to replace the upper brackets on the batwing fairing ?
 
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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 05:22 PM
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Are you talking about the ones that go out to the speakers?
 
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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Boyer8
Are you talking about the ones that go out to the speakers?
If so they are pretty east to get at with the faring off. HD left them off of my bike when they put my hawg wired speakers in. Hawg wired also told me they aren't needed. Ymmv. I am going to make a bracket and put mine back on
 
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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 05:35 PM
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no sir im talking about the other ones that bolt to the upper part of the fairng
 
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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 05:47 PM
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Those are the ones that the radio bolts to and actually mount the inner. I'm thinking big PITA!
 
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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 06:40 PM
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mine was split at both speaker and vertical bracket i just took them out and welded them with a mig. its not hard at all its just a jigsaw puzzle if your not much of a wrench take a few pics at each stage of dis assembly. if u dont have a welder take them to a muffler shop they usually have a mig
 
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Old Apr 18, 2013 | 11:13 PM
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Or just buy some L Brackets and bolts and fix it that way. Cheaper than new brackets and is much stronger. The other option is to purchase a kit from Ragan Fab Works. Still cheaper than new brackets and takes the guesswork out.

There are a ton of threads about using L Brackets and the Ragan kits.
 
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+1 on the repair kits. All four of mine were broken. Stereo need ed to be repaired too... excessive vibration damage.
 
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any videos or step by steps on replacing the brackets using HD parts?
 
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Gosh, how did anyone repair a bike before YouTube; oh yeah, we bought the service manual.

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