Windjammer brackets

[Seth Matthews]

Are the windjammer fairings supposed to have rubber shock absorbers between the fairing and the mounting brackets? Just curious, cause my vetter soundbox is rubbing my dash gauges when I turn the bars, I've tried to adjust but no luck.

 

[Beekman]

Mine came with two strips of rubber which are the same width and length as the flat surfaces that the fairing sits on, they are about an eighth of an inch thick. They go in between the fairing and the bracket on said surface with holes for the mounting bolts to go through. I assume that it was designed with some kind of rubber in between there, just not sure exactly what.

Can your bracket be moved up any higher on your frame?

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[Seth Matthews]

I haven't checked to see if I can move the brackets up, where they attatch to the frame. I will, but for now, I just put washers in between the brackets and the fairing, as a spacer.

 

[Larry Fine]

You should be able to shim the fairing vertically, as long as you use a material that won't squish enough so the bolts loosen with movement. I'm trying to decide the best material for the wedges I need to make to tilt mine. I may just go with a wood 2x2, cut diagonally into two giant door-stop-shaped wedges, sealed and painted black, and drilled so the holes line up. I may even add a third hole on each side for another pair of bolts.

A stack of washers, or a pair of spacers like the sewing-thread spools I used for a test run, will point-load the fairing, rather than spreading the weight along the rail lengths.

 

[Seth Matthews]

I'd recommend, take a bolt with you, or measure. go to a home depo, or lowes, get some half inch or 1 inch square tubing, measure your holes, drill them, and cut the tube to length, and cap the ends, that way you don't have a pressure point, and its distributed along the rail of the mounting bracket.

 

[Seth Matthews]

take a bolt or measure so you can get long bolts so you can compensate for the thicker spacing

 

[Terraplane Tom]

To raise mine up I used a longer blot and added a nut between the bottom of the fairing and the mounting bracket.