Length: 9:30
Created: June 10, 2022
What’s up guys? Today we’re going to install our Rear Vented Windshield on this Honda Talon 1000. After you’ve complete these six steps, you can hit the trail and never look back.
The first thing you want to do is take your rear windshield and lay it on the machine to confirm that it fits. We’ve already done this, so we’ll go ahead and remove the protective film.
The first thing you want to do is take your rear windshield and lay it on the machine to confirm that it fits. We’ve already done this, so we’ll go ahead and remove the protective film.
Next we’ll take our bulb seal and install it with the bulb portion facing up if you’re on the inside of the windshield. One way to tell if you’re on the inside of the rear windshield is that your vent will say “push to open.” You want this to be facing up on your table when you’re installing the bulb seal.
We’re going to start right here on this edge. We’ll run it all the way around the windshield and end on this edge. So let’s go ahead and get it started.
Now we’re going to grab out lower bracket—you’ll have two of them that are identical in design. Then we’ll grab our short Allen-headed hardware from the kit and install the sealing washer, ensuring that the seal portion is facing away from the head.
We’ll grab our bracket and slide the hardware through the hole in the windshield. Then take a Nyloc nut from the kit and start that hardware. We’ll do that for both holes, then repeat the same steps for the opposite side.
Now we’ll take our top bracket. It will lay just like this, on the inside of the rear windshield, with our hardware coming from the outside to the inside. This is the same exact hardware that we previously used on our other bracketry.
Once your brackets are installed loosely, it’s time to install the windshield to the machine. We’ll grab it, come to this side, and slide it through. You’ll just go back and forth, working each side in evenly.
The lower bracket that we previously installed to the windshield needs to go over the tube on the cage of the machine.
Make sure that when you install the windshield to the machine, the lower bracket that we already installed goes over top of the tube on the cage of the machine.
For this next step, we’ll install our hardware to the upper bracket that we previously installed. If you don’t have a SuperATV roof, you’ll use the hex hardware that’s included in the kit.
We have a SuperATV roof on this machine, so we’ll remove the hardware from the roof and then we’ll re-install this bolt directly through our bracket and into the bracket on our roof.
Just push our windshield in until our holes line up. We’ll just run that through, hand tight for now. We’ll come back and tighten these two bolts, as well as this bolt.
Now we’ll take our heavy-duty Velcro strap and install it to the windshield around the tube of the cage.
We have an enclosure on this machine, so we’ll have to do something a little more tricky than what you’ll need to do.
I’m going to feed this strap through as far as I can get it, then I’ll go to the inside of the machine and route this strap through the hole in my windshield and through my clamp. Then tighten and fasten it. That was pretty acrobatic, not gonna lie!
Now we’re going to fully tighten the hardware securing our rear windshield to our roof. Then we’ll fully tighten our brackets on the bottom of the windshield, as well as at the top of the windshield.
When you go to tighten the top hardware, it’s definitely nice to have somebody to help you. It can be difficult to get in there and tighten it by yourself.
That’s all there is to installing this rear vented windshield on your Honda Talon. Check us out online for more Talon upgrades. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe.
Thanks for watching and we’ll catch you on the next one!
