The Lazy Windscreen Removal method

For those who have a clear windscreen, you must have noticed how crap can get to all the places you cant reach underneath it. So I fugured that winscreen removal might be part of a routine maintenance regime for us. Having taken mine off a couple of time, I figure we all can benefit from my experience.

So here we go.

STEP 1.

Grab the plastic facia bit and pull off as in the picture. its quite easily removed.

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STEP 2 and 3

Unscrew the 2, 5mm Allen bolts

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STEP 4

Repeat steps above for the second side.

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STEP 5

Grab the top of the windscreen and the top of the painted panel (as indicated by the arrows in the picture below) and push forward to get the assembly to snap free. This requires some effort and the clips are quite robust. Dont be afraid to give a knock or two. :fing02:

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STEP 6

Once you have successfully undone the two clips, leverage on the windscreen to ease it out from under the fairing as in the picture.

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STEP 7

SUCCESS :cheerleader: This is how all should look when you succeed!

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I also figured that if you see the clips and the points to which they attach, you would have the confidence to pull this off successfully. So here are the clips and the slots in the headlamp assembly where they attach.

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Needless to say the installation is the opposite procedure to removal!

All the best from warm and sunny Lagos!

Excellent guide. Thanks for that. I like the look of the Puig screen too.

paul thompson

Excellent guide. Thanks for that. I like the look of the Puig screen too.

Thank you very much, I was curious how to do it; I may get a zero gravity taller screen soon.

Very clever guide! thank you !!

Very helpful. Thanks!!...

great post.... thanks a lot.

:biggrin: great post.... thanks a lot.

greets taaf

belgium driver

Thank You:)

Glad to give something back! :fing02:

fotodadi

For those who have a clear windscreen, you must have noticed how crap can get to all the places you cant reach underneath it. So I fugured that winscreen removal might be part of a routine maintenance regime for us. Having taken mine off a couple of time, I figure we all can benefit from my experience.

So here we go....

Awesome, simple how to. Thanks!!

Great work fotodadi,

Methinks the moderators should make this a "Sticky" so it doesn't get lost in the future.

Cheers,

Smithy.

Just to add, for anyone who still has the original clear windscreen you need to remove the mirrors too. The original windscreen has tabs hooking around the mirror mounts under the silver trim.

Awesome write-up BTW. Made the removal really simple.

I know I probably sound a little stupid asking this but which part is it you're referring to when you say pull off the plastic fascia bit, the arrow seems to be pointing between the dials and the red panel but in the next pictures there doesn't seem to be a panel missing? Thanks in advance.

zero gravity instructions are helpfull also http://www.zerogravity-racing.com/pdfs/455_windscreen_install.pdf

lshark

zero gravity instructions are helpfull also http://www.zerogravi...een_install.pdf

That is my VFR1200F that Zero Gravity used for the mould to make the windscreens they offer and those directions were partially written by me, I am even in some of the pictures.

Do not attempt this without removing the mirrors. The windscreen loops around the wholes that the mirrors bolt in. I did this yesterday and I also broke the clip from its base by forcing the main panel to come out as per instructions above. Cost replacement 120 Canadian. Thanks for the incomplete instructions that caused the damage

sorry to hear, but take al look at post #12

leo

Do not attempt this without removing the mirrors. The windscreen loops around the wholes that the mirrors bolt in. I did this yesterday and I also broke the clip from its base by forcing the main panel to come out as per instructions above. Cost replacement 120 Canadian. Thanks for the incomplete instructions that caused the damage

it's important to view anonymously posted information with a fair bit of skepticism .

thank you, I will need this guide in a few months.

Thanks!

Got as far as step 4 once, but was stuck then. Was afraid to break something so just left it be. Seems I just had to push a bit harder!

Not to beat up a dead horse once more - but IMHO probably a good idea to modify the original post so that it states upfront that "in case of doubt it's recommended to remove the mirrors - Puig tolerates the easy way out but I was also one of the unlucky ones that didn't read through umpteen comments in this thread - broke it as well and the original screen which I like best - (in the EU zone) is bloody expensive (240 Euros) -

No finger pointing here of course , can only blame myself being overly anxious to get the job done w/o identifying the reason why the forward "move" was far too resistive (heck the author said "give it good nudge" or something along those lines - but trying to save someone else the same agony -

best regards

Rik

If you look carefully at the pics on page 1 of this thread, the Puig windscreen's "ears" around the mirror mounts are already "pre-broken off". That is what allows for the quick mount/demount. Check here: http://www.puigusa.com/descargas/PUIG14427.pdf I didn't break mine off, so I have to taken the mirrors off.

ZG screens are similar, except they do not screw onto the nose fairling, so you could actually keep the nose fairing installed. The ZG screen just slips and tuck in under the nose fairing. You still have to remove the mirrors, unless again you pre-break the mirror "ears".

The ears are present to reduce vibrations? Provide a firmer mount? Folks take them off for convenience or they tend to break off through frequent on/off cycles?

The area of the stock windshield that causes the maintenance cleanup problem is the two lower side sections. Since I like the stock windshield I plan on painting the lower section of the shield on the inside with gloss black paint. Frankly I think it will look better painted than the useless non functional styling exercise Honda gave us.

the Zero G SR smoke screen eliminates the water spotting in the vent area....drying with the air hose worked pretty well

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