{"id":63505,"date":"2014-06-06T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=63505"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:44:28","slug":"zephyr-750-deco-mainte-upper-cowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20140606\/everyday-events\/zephyr-750-deco-mainte-upper-cowl","title":{"rendered":"Zephyr 750 Deco-mainte Upper Cowl Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_8198.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_8198.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_8198\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8198.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8198-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8198-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s install the upper cowl.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_8200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_8200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_8200\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8200-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8200-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShould we build it from scratch or adapt the original parts? It&#8217;s always a tough call.<br \/>\nThis time I went with adapting the original. Honestly, it should have been easier, but it wasn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nI really like how the original fitment looks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_8202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_8202.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_8202\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8202.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8202-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/06\/DSC_8202-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe light bracket is narrow and the cowl interior is wide. For now I&#8217;m adding material on both sides where needed in the straight sections. I cut away the outer edges.<br \/>\nOn the lower side, I&#8217;ve positioned and fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>The meter was hitting it, so I thought I&#8217;d cut it with an air saw, but it&#8217;s plastic? That&#8217;s unusual.<br \/>\nAnd now the turn signal is hitting it too.<\/p>\n<p>Next I&#8217;ll cut out three mounting brackets from the cowl, weld them, and secure them with fasteners and we should be good.<br \/>\nI really wish I had a dream bender for custom fabrication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s install the upper cowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[123,82],"class_list":["post-63505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-deco-mainte","tag-zephyr-750"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}