Hello, John Talley here with Partzilla.com.
Today I'm going to show you how to replace the air filter on our 2007 Honda Goldwing
GL1800A.
Listen, I'd like to tell you this is a simple project, but it's not.
Lot of nuts and bolts have to come out, lot of different things have to be removed.
Well listen, I'm going to go print out a bunch of diagrams so I can keep up with it myself.
So if you're ready I'll go do that, grab some tools, and we'll dive straight in, so let's
go.
Alright guys, this is going to be a skill level two, but don't be afraid of it.
The biggest thing to be concerned with is just keeping things organized and laid out
in the same order that they came out so we can get them put back on there in the same
order.
As far as the tools you're going to need, it's a pretty short list.
A pair of needle-nosed pliers, Phillips screwdriver, a couple different extensions, a 10mm just
regular socket, then a five and a 6mm Allen.
A couple of different ratchets and if you can, get this rivet removal tool.
Makes life a lot easier.
Alright as far as the parts go, there's only one part number for it, and it's right here.
But listen, as you're pulling your machine apart, and you find that there's a coupe of
screws or a bolt missing, reference our parts diagrams because that's going to tell you
exactly what should be on the machine and then the correct part number to get it ordered.
So, once you've got your parts and your tools together, we can go over there and I can show
you how to do it, so let's go.
So, step number one.
Let's get the seat out of the way.
That's just going to be a 6mm Allen.
there's going to be four bolts, back where the-- these little hand grips are.
Once we get those four out, then the entire seat will just lift up and then back and out.
Now lust pull this section up, and back it out.
Now one electrical connection right here.
I think that's going to be for the seat heater.
Go ahead and get it unplugged.
Now she should lift out.
Alright, next, let's go ahead and get these side covers off.
Grab them toward the back and then they just disconnect from these three little sections
right here.
Put them somewhere safe.
Alright, next, let's go ahead and starts working on the instrument cluster cover.
No going to need these for a while.
Alright, go ahead and release these two tabs, pulling toward you.
Reach down here at the bottom, pull up, then pull at the very top and now she's off.
Now, just lean it back as far as you can, and we have to disconnect the wires for the
tweeters.
The tweeters have a little rubber grommet that you have to kind of peel back and you
can squeeze in the top of the connection and pull right out.
That's what I was talking about.
See you pull this little grommet back and then push in right here on the top, and then
it will release.
Now just got to do the same thing on the other side.
Now we need to get the controls for the seat heater disconnected.
Alright, it actually goes to a connection right in front of the ignition switch.
Push in on the top of that connector and pull to the right.
There we go.
Are we having fun yet?
Alright guys, what we're going to do next is get these wind deflectors out of the way
and obviously this is an add-on that somebody did later.
It certainly didn't come from the factory like this.
This particular setup just has little covers and under that, just Phillips head screws.
So we're going to go ahead and get all that removed and then, we can remove these little
cover strips.
You want to pop it at the bottom and then just work your way up easy.
And when you get all the way to the front, then you pull it back and it comes out.
See that was held in by that little edge right there.
do the same thing for the other side.
start at the bottom, start working your way up.
Pull down, and out.
Now, let's go ahead and get to our pockets.
with these type rivets, you just push them in, and that will release them to where I
can remove them.
I'm just using a pick tool to do this.
Alright, you'll notice in this particular pocket there's an eighth inch jack but it
has a grommet at the back.
We should be able to just push it back through.
As well as that audio there is a 12-volt, looks like a cigarette-type plug jack that's
been added, so may have to do a little bit of finagling to get her out.
Let's just unplug it from here, get this grommet pushed back through.
There we go.
Remember, try to keep everything together as you're pulling it apart.
Now this one is a combination of a Phillips and two rivets.
The rivets are over here on the outside, then on the inside it's a couple of Phillips.
Now, we need to disconnect from that key lock.
It's just a cable that comes up right here.
what we're going to do is pop it out of that holder, rotate it over to that groove and
then lift it out.
alright, now let's start unbolting and unscrewing the shelf.
Let's start with these two at the ignition switch.
Then we'll start working our way around the perimeter.
Like I said, these change, they're not all the same, so when you're pulling these off
go lay then down in kind of a pattern.
You may be doing like I'm doing, I'm actually trusting several other people that have gone
before me on this particular unit to make sure the right screws went back in to where
they came out.
Now if you would, reference this drawing.
It's going to show you by length in millimeter what should go where, so take a few minutes,
look at that drawing, make sure as you're pulling them out that they actually match
up with it.
That looks like it.
Alright, next, let's head down here and get these two 10mm off the very back of the faring.
Get that holder out of the way.
Try not to lose that.
Next let's go ahead and reach up and disconnect the cables that go to the vent.
Disconnect our headlight adjust as well as the pro-load, just this main harness right
here.
The next one is actually mounted to the side where the top of where the radiator mounts.
It's a big plug, it looks like it's maybe 10 conductor, gray.
Gonna push in on it and pull at the same time.
There's a release at the bottom of the plug where it mounts to the radiator backing plate.
Then you can lift it out.
Push in here, and then she releases.
Alright, with all that done here comes the fun part.
That should have us disconnected for the most part everything except here, so what we're
going to do is go ahead and pull the rear faring off these two studs at the back, tilt
it up, start guiding it off.
Now we just need to disconnect the audio controls.
So there's two plugs, they're going straight into the back of it.
Both releases are toward the outside so I'm going to do the right one first.
Push in, pull down.
And the left one.
Alright, that's what I was talking about.
There's one more plug over on this side.
Just this little three conductor.
Now let's see if that clears it.
Antenna wire.
Now we're clear.
Alright, before I set this down, this is where those two main plugs were.
So, we've got all our bolts laid out like they came out, and we're going to carefully
set this down all by itself so it doesn't get scratched.
Alright guys, now that we've got the shelf out of the way, we just have to dig a little
bit deeper to get to this air filter.
Start off by removing these two forward air ducts.
Just take out this one screw at the bottom and then it'll just pull straight out.
Same thing for the other side.
Now, let's go ahead and get the ECU out of the way.
Now this next section we want to lift off has the cruise control and various other modules
in it.
There's four 10mm bolts, so we'll go ahead and disconnect the modules because what we're
going to do is unbolt it and just lift it over and let it hang to the side, because
we want to leave the cruise control still attached to it.
Alright, I could probably leave these little air channels in place, but I think it's going
to be easier if I just move them out of the way.
So there's only one plastic rivet left on either side.
We'll pull that out, get those out of the way, then it should be easier to get this
section to flip up.
Leggo my Eggo.
Yeah, that's going to make it much easier.
Now let's see if it'll let me flip it up.
Believe it or not, now we're actually down to the air box.
So, let's get this baro sensor disconnected and then we've got seven screws.
One, two three, four, five, six, seven.
There she is.
It doesn't look terrible but it doesn't look that great either.
It was time to get this one swapped out.
And of course this is a non-reusable filer, I mean you have to replace it.
You can't clean it because if you sprayed it with any type of cleaner it would just
mat up and turn it into paper mache and that's the last thing you want.
So, carefully lift it out without dumping any of its contents into the intake which
would also be a bad thing.
We want to life it up as straight as possible.
Yeah, that wasn't looking too spiffy.
It was definitely time to go ahead and replace this one.
Alright guys, got our new filter.
all we need to do now ids just put it all back together, so are you ready?
Let's go.
Alright, just need our seven screws just to tighten it back down.
Just make sure that she is set into her groove.
I usually start at the top right and then go to the bottom left to make sure its actually
sitting flush as it should be.
There it goes.
Now we can go ahead and tighten down the rest of them.
Get our sensors plugged back in.
Now we're going to swing back over the assembly with the cruise control as well as all the
bracketry for the ECU and controllers.
Let's get it bolted in place.
Alright, with t hat bolted back down, let's go ahead and plug up the ABS control unit.
It's got three connectors that go back into it.
What you want to listen for is that click when it actually bottoms out.
This is for the ignition switch.
Sensor on this side and rout this up under here and this holds that in place.
These get tucked in right here.
Let's go ahead and get these lower faring pieces back in.
Get this little piece, goes around the ignition switch.
Those rivets I pulled out down below looked pretty rough so we're gonna go ahead and put
brand new ones in.
Let's go ahead and get our ECU back in place, this harness make sure it's wrapped around
the front of it.
There's that click that you're listening for.
Now, we just have our audio control section, which just roughly sits in place until the
shelf comes back in.
There's the antenna connection.
So we've got everything connected back to the ECU and the ABS, so now we need to get
those two intake ducts put back in.
I think we've got it.
So, let's bring the shelf over... carefully.
Alright, we've got both of the audio connectors made, just don't forget your antenna all the
way here at the back.
Now we just need to guide it down into place.
Make sure you hit all your connectors like for the headlight adjust, because they're
really tough to get to once it bottoms out.
The other thing I need to pull up is the line for the vent control.
Go ahead and slide her up, make sure you've got this control cable which is going to lock
that particular compartment.
The control wires are right here, and then that connector actually goes to a bracket
that holds it right on the side of the radiator.
So once you make the connection, carry it over here and push it down on that little
pin that's going to hold it.
Just a little plastic tab.
Everything layered together.
Need to be real gentle as you're trying to work it down, and when you're working this
section, this tab needs to go all the way down to the bottom.
That's a whole lot of plastic to layer up, but when it sits flush you'll know it.
There it is.
Okay, so we've got her back in place, let's start bolting it back down.
I still have all my bolts laid out as they came off so I get them back in the right place.
What I typically do is just put them all together just hand tight and then we'll go back and
snug them down.
As you're tightening them down, if they don't really seem to bottom out you may need to
shift plastics around just to get that edge or that collar to go all the way in.
Alright, next let's go ahead and get our vent control hooked back up.
Alright, it's back in its groove.
Now just need to snap that in place.
Alright, life is good.
Next, go ahead and get this little rubber grommet.
Same thing on the other side.
Get these two bolts here that hold in the center section for the ignition switch.
Get our dash put back in.
There's a connection down here, and we actually need to re-plug in the tweeters up top.
It's got a couple of little protrusions, little tabs, that hold it in place.
Now she'll just snap back in place.
Start at the top and just work your way back.
Now, we can start working on getting our storage compartments in on both sides.
And if you remember, this one actually had a little bit of aftermarket stuff on it, so
we'll need to take that into account.
Also go ahead and bring your microphone hook up and get it into position because you don't
want to leave it down there.
There's our connector for the power.
Then we have an audio connection we need to bring up.
Get our grommet back in.
Get her set back in place.
Alright, it's just held in by a couple of push rivets.
And to reset these, you just push them back up, hold like that.
And then just push them flush, and that that locks them back in place.
Now, let's get the other side.
Before we can just pop it in there, we need to reconnect this little cable so you can
lock this side.
Now this one is a little bit different than the other side, it actually has push pins
on this side and then a couple of Phillips screws on the inside.
Alright, let's get on these two strips that actually cover up all of the hardware.
Same thing for the other side.
Alright, on this particular unit, they had wind deflectors that were aftermarket, so
we need to go ahead and get those back on.
Most important thing to do here is when you bring it in, bring it in with this side facing
down and we just need to get these two clips up under that leading edge as well as this
main one down there on that bar above the fuel pump.
Alright, stop there, because we actually have a connection that has to be made.
Now let's go ahead and guide her down.
Get our grab rails mounted back down.
Now let's get on our side panels.
Tuck it up under the edge of the seat, just line it up with those rubber grommets.
Just push in place.
And just to make sure we did everything right...
Well everything is looking good.
I know that was one heck of a project but you will save yourself a lot of money if you
follow the steps and just do it on your own.
Most dealerships, they're going to charge an hour and a half, maybe two hours.
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