Mid-week farkling
On Monday I was most impressed when a package arrived in the mail...
Nice box, what's in it"
Some sort of jig-saw puzzle...I've been waiting for this for a while and very keen to get the Zumo mounted up on the Tenere so that I could go and get lost and then hopefully find my way home again...
Last night it was time to do the install in my cold and dark garage. First up I had to pull bits off...
Even the dash had to be unboltedLucky this was the easy part. The hard bit came next, mounting it up...
My issue was that I have the Yamaha wind deflectors fitted and they aren't really compatible with the SW-Motech bracket...Well, I was having none of that. What I had to do was drill out the front mounting holes on the deflectors to accept the larger bolt that would go right through into the GPS bracket - scary stuff! But, you know what" It worked.
The next little issue was the crappy plastic (!) bolts used to screw the deflectors on. Due to the front bolt on the deflectors being very solid it was a little hard to line up the other bolts and the stupid plastic screws got a hiding. I lucked out and found 4 similar sized allen head bolts in my "spares". These went in sweet as. The plastic ones ended up somewhere else...
Bracket in place with the Garmin cradle screwed onto itThe next job was to find a route for the GPS power supply and tidy up the extra cable that wasn't required. Then it was time t...
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