Observations after installing Wunderlich motor guards.

[pat8635]

I'll start with that I'm glad I did it.

Second, as a kid with dad stationed in Germany I used to work on people's cars so that they would pass inspections and I was significantly cheaper than any Mercedes or VW dealer and had both metric and sea tools so could take car of us cars too. With German cars, if it didn't line up exactly, I had made a mistake.

With that premise, I started. I hand righted the first two screws and the third was significantly off. Spent time looking for my mistake and couldn't find one. Nothing online so to maker. Their tech support answered immediately and I learned you had to back screws almost totally out and get all three started (and not cross threaded do to angled pressure) then tighten them all down. Right side compete, I move to left.

WOW. I knew as soon as the second oem bolt was out and the engine shifted, that I was in trouble!

To make a bunch of trial and error and different attempts with floor jack to figure it out.

I phoned a friend and put bike on side stand and had her pull back on bike till holes aligned and put screws in. It was easy (almost) after that. Guard on and then to easy (or so they said) install of oem aux lights. Again, right side, no issues. Left, well light attached to new home and the wire doesn't reach. Wunderlich says not their problem and extensions are sold online.

Had same friend who is much more petite than I am reach up and free up just enough wire to make it work.

I still need to find extender.

Good news in all this, bike used to go left just slightly if i took hands off bike. Bmw said keep hands on bike. Now it tracks like a good German bike, straight as could be!

Hope this helps someone!

 

[smswy]

I'll start with that I'm glad I did it.

Second, as a kid with dad stationed in Germany I used to work on people's cars so that they would pass inspections and I was significantly cheaper than any Mercedes or VW dealer and had both metric and sea tools so could take car of us cars too. With German cars, if it didn't line up exactly, I had made a mistake.

With that premise, I started. I hand righted the first two screws and the third was significantly off. Spent time looking for my mistake and couldn't find one. Nothing online so to maker. Their tech support answered immediately and I learned you had to back screws almost totally out and get all three started (and not cross threaded do to angled pressure) then tighten them all down. Right side compete, I move to left.

WOW. I knew as soon as the second oem bolt was out and the engine shifted, that I was in trouble!

To make a bunch of trial and error and different attempts with floor jack to figure it out.

I phoned a friend and put bike on side stand and had her pull back on bike till holes aligned and put screws in. It was easy (almost) after that. Guard on and then to easy (or so they said) install of oem aux lights. Again, right side, no issues. Left, well light attached to new home and the wire doesn't reach. Wunderlich says not their problem and extensions are sold online.

Had same friend who is much more petite than I am reach up and free up just enough wire to make it work.

I still need to find extender.

Good news in all this, bike used to go left just slightly if i took hands off bike. Bmw said keep hands on bike. Now it tracks like a good German bike, straight as could be!

Hope this helps someone!

Was the Wunderlch engine guard the one with 3 arms, not four? I installed Touratech 4 arm engine guards on my R1250 GS and no issues. I am curious about your comment “as soon as the second OEM bolt was out the engine shifted”. On most all the 3 and 4 arm enhine guards the front lower and upper attach to locations that are empty and are just predrilled or have the bracket with a hole (upper one). The rear lower engine guard attaches where the front end of the rear frame is bolted on at two bolts. And the engine guard only attaches to the forward bolt. You do not remove both bolts. When you reference “second OEM bolt” are you implying the right side was the first bolt and the left side the second bolt? Or did you remove the two bolts on the same side? Or, was the rear bolt of the two on the left side somehow loose so that when you removed the front bolt there was a shift in alignment? Curious.

 

[pat8635]

Was the Wunderlch engine guard the one with 3 arms, not four? I installed Touratech 4 arm engine guards on my R1250 GS and no issues. I am curious about your comment “as soon as the second OEM bolt was out the engine shifted”. On most all the 3 and 4 arm enhine guards the front lower and upper attach to locations that are empty and are just predrilled or have the bracket with a hole (upper one). The rear lower engine guard attaches where the front end of the rear frame is bolted on at two bolts. And the engine guard only attaches to the forward bolt. You do not remove both bolts. When you reference “second OEM bolt” are you implying the right side was the first bolt and the left side the second bolt? Or did you remove the two bolts on the same side? Or, was the rear bolt of the two on the left side somehow loose so that when you removed the front bolt there was a shift in alignment? Curious.

3 bolt. And they are clear on every video to do one side at a time because if engine moves, you just increased your work. It wasn't much of a shift, just enough to get everything out of alignment. The fact the bike tracks perfectly now, is another clue that something shifted!