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KZ1000p - reconditioning black on fairing
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I'd also like to plug the many holes drilled into it all over the place. It's not something I could slather Bondo on since it's textured. If you have holes in yours, what do you use to keep water out?
Oh, if your fairing rattles as mine did, and you want to silence it, check out your main headlight ring. A little bit of rubber around the back of it makes a good deal of the rattling go away.
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The Nomad wrote: I'd also like to plug the many holes drilled into it all over the place. It's not something I could slather Bondo on since it's textured. If you have holes in yours, what do you use to keep water out?
Thanks in advance!
Mine had holes drilled into it as well, but only on the rider side of the fairing. This was particularly true on the center of the fairing just under the windshield where the Kawasaki emblem is. In fact they drilled 4 holes right through the Kawasaki emblem. I removed the emblem, two rivets, and then covered the holes with piece of stair tread tape. Something like this.
www.uline.com/Product/Detail/S-18902/3M-...78P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds
I bought the tape at O'Reilly auto parts. The texture is a good match. It looks good enough to me, but I'm not that particular about the looks and don't mind if something looks repaired.
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That's a pretty good idea, JakeDude. I just might go that way. Jackleberry, bed liner is a great idea! Any suggestions what brand to use?
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The Nomad wrote: Okay, I've tried to add pictures of this for about an hour now, but no luck. Sooo, anyway, I've seen some of these that look pretty black, and I was thinking it would be nice to darken it up since I'm looking at it for hours at a time on long trips.
That's a pretty good idea, JakeDude. I just might go that way. Jackleberry, bed liner is a great idea! Any suggestions what brand to use?
I don't remember what brand it was. Whatever they sell at autozone probably. More recently I used the rustoleum brand bed liner on a battery cage--it produced a much glossier finish than I expected. I suggest testing whatever you get on some scrap material to be sure it gives the finish you want.
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