Triumphrat

mecscc

I just received a Summer Screen I bought on eBay. Brand new, OEM, prompt shipping, well protected packaging, signature receipt required, etc. Cost, including freight in USA = $207.90. Since I'm not pimping for any company, if you want one I have the ISP info: email me: mecscc@localnet.com. When I bought last Sunday they still had at least 7 left.

Which is NOT why I wrote this note. I'm not totally out of it (most times) yet; but the official instructions for installing the screen start with 1. Take off the seat, and 2. Disconnect the battery. Then it procedes to tell you how to install it. The closest you get to anything electrical is to remove the headlight bolts long enough to put a bracket on each side.

Why those instructions????????????????? If it has something to do with a hot wire inside the headlight, I can't figure how you'd even accidentally touch it. Any thoughts?

Monte

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Monte

"The Old Ohio Preacher Man"

Copper

That seems to be a standard in a lot of official manuals, I think it is supposed to prevent someone accidentally starting and driving/riding the machine while it is partially dis-assembled. I usually ignore it, especially for something like the screen, its a waste of time.

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My Baby

Roadglide

summer screen; i like it.

Roadglide

Why?

Rock500

I agree with copper. I've been studying the owners manual for something to do (and maybe I might learn something) and it devotes full pages to warnings of various kinds.
It's the world we live in today; lawsuits, responsibility, liability, etc., so they have to cover their butt.
I'm sure you can accomplish the screen mounting without disconnecting the battery.
But if you short out your entire electrical system I deny any knowledge of this subject.

Rocky :wink:

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CarlS

Monte, I think the warning is lawyer CYA male bovine excrement. I have installed two summer screens (one twice) and a roadster screen. I did not disconnect the battery to do so.

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Old Soldier

ohiorider

On some bikes, they really mean it when they say 'disconnect the ground wire on the battery.' Case in point. You can destroy the diode board on any 'airhead' BMWs built from 1969 to 1995 by leaving the battery connected, if you touch the front engine cover to the diode board when removing the engine cover. Poof ... just like that ... a $100 part up in smoke. Maybe there's nothing common between the wiring architecture on Beemers and Bonnies, but just wanted to mention that sometimes there are good reasons for following procedures. Perhaps when installing a windscreen is stretching the point .... dunno.
- Bob -

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RedBird

Monte,

I felt the same way as many who have responded. I have done a lot around the headlight without disconnecting the battery. Since then I have had the headlight off and all the wiring out of the shell. After seeing all the electrical connections inside the shell, I will disconnect the battery in the future whenever I do anything that involves the headlight bolt connections just to be on the safe side.

Larry

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2003 T-100 (790cc), NARK, NH Togas, 8100 rpm rev limiter, 158 main jets, 42 pilot jets (less than 1 turn out on pilot screws), stock needles--no shims. 13 A/F ratio from 1100 rpm to 4000 rpm; 12 A/F ratio from 4000 rpm to 6000 rpm; 13 A/F from 6000 rpm to 8100 rpm.:D
2007 Tiger 1050--White:D--SW-Motech crashbars, Skidmarx rear hugger/chain guard, Calsci +7 windscreen.

Larry

Just a thought on installing the Summer Screen on your Bonnie... I installed one on my Bonnie about two years ago and followed directions. Well, maybe not all. I did not disconnect the battery and I also found that following the directions and installing the lower triple tree brackets and arms in front of the fork tubes caused the screen to be too vertical for me and and it buffeted a lot in the wind.

I noticed that the Summer Screen on my Thunder-bird had a different rake or angle on it and it looked better installed and did not buffet in the wind.

I removed the lower brackets on the Bonnie, and with a little help of a grinder and a vice, I installed the brackets so that the bracket arms were behind the triple tree and fork tubes. This moved the top the windscreen back into about the angle as the one on my Thunder-bird. It made a world of difference for me.

Like I said, just a thought...