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what's the secret to removing tupperware?

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#1 ·
when I was looking for engine guards, I remember reading that with the Givi's you could remove your plastic/tupperware panels with the guards in place. Well, I have Givi's installed and decided to do some farkle wiring. I need to remove the tupperware and raise the tank to run wires. It is virtually impossible to get the side panels off with the engine guards in place. What's the secret? :confused: I don't have to loosen and/or remove the engine guards do I?
 
#2 ·
no. The Givi guards stay in place with no problem. Just remove all of the screws and rivets, screw around with the little bayonet/grommet connector and get it apart, then the side panels slide kinda up and back. At least it works that way with no problem on my 09 wee.
 
#3 ·
I think you are wondering about the little black rivets.

If you are wondering how to deal with the black plastic rivets, you are not alone.

I managed to bust one, then I looked in the manual, or asked
about it here, and I learned how to deal with them.

TO RELEASE A RIVET

Use a strong slender piece of plastic, such as the refill of a cheap ball-point pen.
Push the center of the rivet until it depresses a few millimeters. If the first
rivet resists you too much because some fool spilled Coca-Cola on it, then
go to another rivet, and return to the stuck one later.

When the rivet's center pin goes down, use slender fingernails to pick out the
entire rivet, grasping it by its maximum diameter. Again, if this is too difficult,
go to another rivet. As soon as you have picked out one, study it.

When the center pin is put back where it was, you can see that the rivet
grabs both the top and bottom surfaces strongly. If you push the center
pin UP the same amount as you earlier pushed it DOWN, it is not
holding anything, and that is when you insert it (later of course) to hold
the tupperware on after you have done whatever you took it off to do.

TO INSTALL A RIVET

With the center pin a few millimeters proud (means up) from the
rest of the rivet, insert it in the panel and the corresponding hole.
Hold the panel tightly against the frame member, where it belongs.
Push the center pin down so it is flush with the body of the rivet.

Oh, those reluctant ones we abandoned above. Well, you just have to keep
on working with them and finagling them the best way you can. When you
break some, as I have done, take comfort in knowing that they are not very
costly, and your purchase supports a cushy life-style for a sadistic fellow
in Japan, who got rich by inventing them and persuading Mrs. Suzuki to
buy billions of them and use them to put us all at his mercy.

Good luck.
Keith
 
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#6 ·
Did loosen the Givi crash-bar bolts (not to the point of removal) on my 06 Vee to remove the upper tupperware. Not a big deal to reinstall if you leave them partially connected. Some other mechanically inclined Strommers may have a better technique to offer. :beatnik:
 
#7 ·
funny thing: with the alt-rider bars i can put the fairing panels ON without removing the bars but no way they come OFF without removing the bars.
 
#9 ·
I thought the same thing and loosened my Altrider bars the first time when one side wouldn't come out. They do go both ways but you have to twist and turn them to do it.

One side, I forget which, is harder than the other, but they will do it if you persevere! It certainly doesn't feel natural.

Be careful though, it would be really easy to scratch them.

You really don't need to remove them to get the tank out. Just unbolt the panels and remove the bit at the top and the tank slides right out. Easier with a friend but quite easy alone.
 
#8 ·
On my Vee, it was possible, but not at all easy, to remove the side panels without removing the bars.

I simply ended up slicing off a section of useless plastic on the back side of the plastic (part of that black finned insert, and part of the side panel). You can't see anything missing from the outside, it's not any less stiff, and basically there are no side effects.

YMMV, and I know the DL650 is slightly different.
 
#10 ·
well, quite the variation in experiences I guess. Thanks for all the replies.

I got my plastic panels out without messing with the Givi bars, but it was rather frustrating. Wow, those tolerances are tight. And you as well as the plastic panels have to be contortionists to get everything out scratch free. I'm not sure that putting the panels back will be done without loosening the Givi racks (which I really do not want to do).

And, no, I had no problem with the plastic rivets. Everything was disconnected before I tried to move the plastic panels. But I did have an issue with one of the bolts. It seemed to be overly tight and overly soft metal. I'm replacing all those bolts with a more durable metal bolt so the allen wrench doesn't slip again.
 
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