Author Topic: Trouble mounting a radiator cowl (grill/guard/fairing) to my 1993 BMW k75 RT  (Read 3315 times)

Offline jaggedbreeze

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I am currently working on fitting a 1994 BMW K75 radiator cowl to my BMW K75RT ABS for a naked look and don't know where to go from here. I've currently got all the previous fairing removed and the accompanying holds. I'm only centimeters form a perfect fit but it seems like the radiator its self is what is keeping me from finish.

Is the radiator on the K75 RT mounted differently? How do I go about changing that? Can I even change it? Or is there another radiator fairing I should be looking for.

Any usable information appreciated.

This is the cowl/fairing/trim/guard I have.



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Offline Inge K.

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WelKome!

K75RT have a K100 radiator, which is different from the one used on the other K75 models.
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Offline gone_ape

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  • 94 K75RT (Now Standard)

The radiator that fits that shroud your showing is off a standard k75, K75S, or K75C and T.. it's physically smaller in dimension and unless your good at fab work, prolly a radiator from that series would be easiest.....Also, you'll need to fab up mount points for the front of said shroud to the front of the fuel tank.....kinda like this here.. the RT tank doesn't have those little round stock rods with rubber pads as the K standard and K75c do.  If you decide to "go to a different tank" approach, then be wary of the side panel mount point tabs on the rear of your current tank...or you could just go the low seat route with the tank surround....A lot of the older tanks you see on Ebay etc (as this example shows), don't have those rear mount tabs on the tank...
I'm doing this EXACT thing right now...but I'm not into the tear down stage , yet...just collecting parts.....
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Offline gone_ape

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If I may add .....  these fuel tanks are "double walled", aluminum, and are not by standard method the easiest to remove dents and creases.  If you're considering a different tank, those for sale usually have a ding or two and you need to factor in extra time/money to have those dents repaired...and then there's those tanks which leak and you can bet it wont be disclosed...... sorry for the buzzkill...
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  • 94 K75RT (Now Standard)

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