Finally Fixing that One Little Thing
Way back in 2015 I low-sided my Honda. The damage was minor enough
that I fixed everything myself, except for a tiny gap between the
cowl and dash surround that wouldn't close up. I could press on the
cowl, and it would kind of snap together...but a few miles down the
road it would pop apart.
Fixing that little gap means removing the dash surround... no big deal, you just need to remove the windshield and mirrors, and the fairings around the headlight. Of course, those fairings don't come off without removing the ones bridging the tank and dashboard... and those don't come off without removing the entire side fairings and turn signals.
With the whole machine apart, it was just a matter of bending the tube structure the cowl sits on with a screwdriver about a quarter of an inch. It took an hour to get to the point where I could do the actual one minute job I set out to do.
