Top Block Install Complete

[Makz58]

Installed the Top Block units this weekend on my 10 special thanks to Fred Hs pictures at http://www.pbase.com/fredharmon/topblock They were a great help as my instructions were in French. Just a few comments about the install.
1. The fit and finish of this product is excellent although they are somewhat pricey.
2. The engine bolts will come out very hard as they are in there very tight and Kawi uses that red thread  sealant on them. I hit them with my impact gun prior to using a breaker bar on them this seemed to work very well. Heat probably would have helped maybe using a red hot sacrficial hex wrench but the bolts are not in a easy place to do this and I do not have access to a heat source.
3. Take your time with the layout of the holes required to be cut in the lower fairring, the tool supplied was very useful. I had some concerns about this but everything turned out very accurate.
4. You do not have to remove any of the plastic which was a plus for me.
Overall I would rate this install 2 - 4 beers.

[ZG]

Congrats M58!     
 
Post up some pics over on the other Top Block thread we already have going, here's the link:
 
http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=314.0
 
 
 
Also, just an FYI for anyone else that get's these, I posted the install instructions in english over on that thread too... 

[BudCallaghan]

Congrats M58!     
 
Post up some pics over on the other Top Block thread we already have going, here's the link:
 
http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=314.0
 
 Also, just an FYI for anyone else that get's these, I posted the install instructions in english over on that thread too... 

Jay, I just looked through the seven pages of that thread and didn't see the "install instructions in English".  Please save us all bit of time and post the page where the instructions are to be found.  Your help is appreciated.

[Kazairl]

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[BudCallaghan]

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Kazairl,

My thanks to you and my thanks to ZG, now Ill go out in the shop and do a valve adjustment, install the sliders and finally the HID lights.  Hopefully, that will be the end of adding accessories to this thing.  I have added so many that it's doubtful I can remember them all and I don't even want to know how much money I've spent doing so.   

[maxtog]

Now Ill go out in the shop and do a valve adjustment, install the sliders and finally the HID lights.  Hopefully, that will be the end of adding accessories to this thing.  I have added so many that it's doubtful I can remember them all and I don't even want to know how much money I've spent doing so.   

Tell me about it.  I just installed McE rears last week, ordered Agostini's highway peg system this week, am getting ready to take the HID plunge, and see that the McE fronts (canyons) are probably in my future too.  Seems I spend more time modding and thinking about modding than actually riding!

[ZG]

Hopefully, that will be the end of adding accessories to this thing.  I have added so many that it's doubtful I can remember them all and I don't even want to know how much money I've spent doing so.   

Seems I spend more time modding and thinking about modding than actually riding!

You guys are addicted, you need to learn some farkling self control like me... 

[Gumby]

 
You guys are addicted, you need to learn some farkling self control like me... 

Did your family have an intervention with u yesterday?

[ZG]

Did your family have an intervention with u yesterday?

    
 
Shut up Gumbi, you have no room to talk Mr. Day 65, go install your new grip buddies...