jcthorne
Well-known member
Was an interesting weekend at Thornoli's. I learned something an thought I would take the time to share it.
We had a customer in for an LED flag install (among other things) on an RT which involves removal of rear body panels and lowering the rear fender.
On reassembly, all went normally, all the lights worked and the bike was cleaned up and delivered to the customer. Except....
The rear trunk lid would not open. Quite the delema as all access to the latch seems to require the lid open. But thanks to Kenny Butler, and a few other great folks I am privledged to work with in the Spyder community, some suggestions on how to get the lid open were made. But, with out a clear image of what I was trying to do it was not an easy fix. Until it worked.
Under the LEFT saddle bag release lever, up in the top left corner is a hole in the bezel. Sticking a 10" screwdriver up through that hole allows access to the end of the latch release lever. Sound great but a picture is worth a thousand words here.
Below are two images of the screwdriver in position to release the latch but with the cover off so you can see.
Oh, and don't worry, the access hole is not accessible when the latches are locked with the key.
And in case any one was wondering the cause of the jam, the plastic tabs on the micro switch for the lid open warning were broken from the lid being closed hard a time or three from a less than perfect latch adjustment. All fixed now.
We had a customer in for an LED flag install (among other things) on an RT which involves removal of rear body panels and lowering the rear fender.
On reassembly, all went normally, all the lights worked and the bike was cleaned up and delivered to the customer. Except....
The rear trunk lid would not open. Quite the delema as all access to the latch seems to require the lid open. But thanks to Kenny Butler, and a few other great folks I am privledged to work with in the Spyder community, some suggestions on how to get the lid open were made. But, with out a clear image of what I was trying to do it was not an easy fix. Until it worked.
Under the LEFT saddle bag release lever, up in the top left corner is a hole in the bezel. Sticking a 10" screwdriver up through that hole allows access to the end of the latch release lever. Sound great but a picture is worth a thousand words here.
Below are two images of the screwdriver in position to release the latch but with the cover off so you can see.
Oh, and don't worry, the access hole is not accessible when the latches are locked with the key.
And in case any one was wondering the cause of the jam, the plastic tabs on the micro switch for the lid open warning were broken from the lid being closed hard a time or three from a less than perfect latch adjustment. All fixed now.
