Honda CTX700 DCT Fairing Reinstall (after removal)

so here’s what the CTX 700 looks like with the pole fairing removed if you’re gonna add any DC powered devices on here you do it right here it doesn’t take too long to remove it but if you don’t know what you’re doing you can break it connections and disconnections that you have to make are like the turn signals these have to be disconnected there and hmm where’s the other one nice no I can’t here it is here’s the other one for the right side and if you have the power supply in the top motorcycle fairings you have to disconnect that from your seven harness right there when you’re putting this back together make sure that this boot is inside here and I had the Honda shop one time do it and it was all inside the unit like that so just make sure it’s inside so that the outer edges are not sticking beyond here the inner sides are underneath the plastic then you line up these bolts here and line up this connection here making sure that all your wires and cables behind there are still straight this one right there so those are the first four bolts that we’ll put back on okay the side panels push straight on so they’re gonna go in here here here and then these notches up above and it’s just gonna push straight in that’s this panel right here as you’re lining up the side panel the pushing into place make sure that this is behind this red piece before you push it in and it’s probably easiest if you start with the big buttons that are at the bottom down here there’s three of them and

then once you get those in place just push everything into that side once you have your top panel on if you have the power supply and the little front here make sure you reconnect the power on that side panel pushed on you’re gonna need two of the metal screws and two of the larger rivets plastic rivets the two screws are going to go here and here and I’ll show you from the other side ninja 250r fairings the two plastic rivets are gonna go in here and here on both sides do not I repeat do not drop this screw or which screw this screw down into here it’s gonna make you cuss up a stool if you should be careless enough to drop the screw this one that goes in here down inside here you have to take the little side panel off again then you have to take this panel off the side actually before you take that pattern off the side you have to take this off the bottom and then it helps if you have this device it’s called a wet noodle it’s flexible and it’s got magnets at either end check out labor-saving devices com or LSD and this is one of the tools I used for work that way if it’s sitting way down inside there like this was sorry you just push that in grab it and pull it out the side piece requires you to pull this out right here to get it unstuck from one of these rubber grommets and then take out these two large screws that go in here here’s muffler shield back on you line up these points inside here with these points here from the front you slide it back into place and then line up that screw down front there ear and hearing you can go ahead and apply that the front now the front the first thing you’re going to do is you’re going to reconnect the turn signal and then it slides in from the front towards the back so it has all these catches that as you see that you slide backwards and you must do the left side first because

the left goes underneath the right the inside of the fairing you can see all those protrusions coming out there in there and there they’re gonna slide into these holes here here and I believe up here right there okay once you think you have its lid on make sure that this seam right here is on straight then you can pop these two right over the top here go around to here make sure everything’s straight here and then you’ll push the whole thing straight into the side all right once you have the Aryan popped into the side you’re going to need this screw right here which goes down through this washer this rubber washer down into here andr1 fairings then you’re going to need these little push rivets now don’t do these wrong like I did and break this one on the side what you do to get them out is instead of trying to push them backwards you take like a small allen wrench or something in real small diameter and push it straight in and it’ll pop through to the other side and loosen up and then once you get it out you can put it in this way and then pop it in flush I found these online like a hundred of them for I don’t know it was under ten bucks Honda wanted to charge five bucks apiece for these little tiny things so be careful with them even though I broke the tip this one will still work and it’s right down here so there and there that’s a screw and here’s the two little pop rivets so once you get the sides slid into place and you put the rivets down below you have to put these two screws in up front so next you’ll put the front on and there’s these four Clips there they’re there and they go into those two holes and those two holes and then one of those little popper that goes in here and here the last piece is to go on are these two pieces here you just got to get this seam right along here all aligned and make sure that this clip is in right there before you put the two school in here and up here and then you put one of those little pop rivets right in here you