How To Install Air Filter, 2023 Honda Goldwing

Alright guys, I'm here at the 2023 Honda Goldwing and today I'm going to show you guys how to install an air filter. Step-by-step, I'm not going to charge you anything, I'm just going to show you all the steps on how to swap out an air filter. Alright first things first, let's get some access here to remove this seat. Press your little button back here to open this compartment up and then we're going to remove this piece right here by removing the footrest down and this plastic piece is going to come out just like this. Do it with one hand here, just like that. So there's two tabs right here, right there, right there, and right there, actually three. So there's three tabs. Boom, boom, and boom. Just be careful of those and of course the top here, this piece right there, slides out. So just be mindful of that because it's right there. So it pulls out and forward. Now after you remove this piece from both sides, you're going to uncover there these bolts here that hold the seat. Now this is an allen and it's going to be a six millimeter. Remove it from both sides. Okay now the seat will lift up and make sure you disconnect the heater element as well. The heater element's going to be right here on the left side of the bike or the brake side of the bike. Just a push pin at the top there, it releases and then you can pull up the entire seat. Next we're going to get rid of this mirror right here and to do that we have to get this five millimeter allen right here and pull that out on both sides. Alright now you got those out from both sides, you're going to remove this plastic shroud right here. Alright to remove this plastic shroud all I do is I push down here, it comes out and then I can pull it and that's it. Plastic shroud gone. Alright after you remove that shroud it's going to expose these two eight millimeter bolts right here which we got to remove both of. Do that for both sides. You can see the connection here, it pulls up so you push it up, I just push up a nail and pull right out. Put this to the side. Now it's time to remove the side fairing. Now looking under the bike here we have a panel. This is a plastic panel, let me see if I can get a good focus on it here, but screws, bolts, and six push pins, a whole entire mess here. We're just going to bypass this because there's a push pin on the inside of this that seems like it's completely unnecessary. When I say that I mean I don't see a use for it whatsoever and you've got to remove all this stuff to get this panel out that overlaps a whole bunch of other panels just to get to that push pin and it looks completely useless to me. So I'm going to show you how to bypass that instead so we don't have to do this whole step which is a mess. And the bottom of the fairing here and pull out this five millimeter bolt. Now there is one push pin you have to pull out and that's going to be right here. So this point you see the bolt is right there, push pin is right there, you pull this one out and the way you pull them out is you just kind of push the center in and pull them out. That one push pin is gone. Now in this gold wing here we have this piece, this has some air flow to it. I don't know if this is a standard piece or if this is just something the owner added on but I'm going to have to remove this to get to a couple things here. So we've got this here the bottom bolt here it's a five that's going to secure at the five allen. This is going to secure the bottom of the fairing itself and then we have a phillips here. I'm going to remove this and this piece should come off. All right I got that piece off the bike now I'm going to go ahead and remove this side piece which just has you can see right here I've kind of pre-pulled it off. It has some notches right here that pull into the plastic and that exposes the push pin we have right here. Now we have that push pin exposed let's go ahead and get it and then pull it out. Then you go to the top of the fairing and pull out this five millimeter bolt. Now we have the fairing loose. See it's a loose-ish right there. See if I can get a better angle here for you guys. Goes loose pull pull pull. Now you're going to start pulling from this part of the fairing like that and then it pushes forward just like that and you can see it pushes forward because of a nipple right there in the top of it which fits right in there. So don't yank it off in the front because you'll rip off the well you probably break the nipple then that's not a good story either. That's the nipple right here and this is the piece right here I'm talking about. It has this push pin that automatically pops out when you pull on the fairing. Now this piece I don't know what the purpose of it is it's right here and you can see it's right on the inside here to do to remove this mess it's just this one push pin and I don't see how it gives this bike any more structural integrity than what it has. So if you want to go ahead and remove that six inner pieces right there it overlaps it's a mess to pull out those inner pieces if you want to mess with it you go ahead and do that. I don't see a point to this piece right here I see a point to all these anchors at the top and bottom but the center that secures it right to the center of this I do not see a point to it so I'm going to be leaving that one out. Go ahead do that for both sides to expose both fairings. It's funny I just pulled off this fairing on this side and literally this bolt fell out of it. This is a mirror bolt right here and you can clearly see this is there's no other mirror here this is the mirror bolt so it ate the mirror bolt and I not only that but I do not even see where the push pin was for this one on the ground or nothing it never fell to the bike that means someone else thought it wasn't important enough to put on this side of the bike. All right so as far as this piece goes this is an annoying piece right here there's a push pin right here there's also put it back in place here there's gonna be a bolt right there there's all five mill and push pins there's a one right there a bolt right there there's gonna be a bolt right these two right here there's gonna be a bolt I remove this though you don't really have to and I also removed this one bay down here even though you don't really have to and that's just so I can manipulate this fairing a little bit so once I manipulate this a little bit more this pulls right and you can see there's a bunch of push rivets like plastic push rivets that connect this whole thing down there it'll feel like you're kind of breaking the bike at times but it really just kind of pulls out and you can see right here pulls out and you can see right here it's caught in the fairing up there so there's a whole lot of things you have to be careful of there's even a push right there you can see right there it pulls pushes right into there through here it pushes in there so if you release it on both sides this whole panel will come right out. All right guys this is how this side should look this side's going to stay in because this brake doesn't need to be removed and this side actually connects differently on the inside of the fairing than the other side does I'm going to show you the other side now the other side I actually had to disconnect it with this because on the inside of this there's no longer push pins there's actually screws so the screw here and there's one down there and they keep going and going so that's unique to this side but this side also does not have a handbrake it just has the compartment right here so once you pull those off you pull off this bolt right here to get this lower piece off you also pull off there's a bolt right there kind of goes up into here that bolt right there there's one at the top here there's one down the fairing there just like on the other side see the hole down there they're all five mil and then there'll also be one right here as well and this will all release at that point you can see how jiggly it is now ready to be released at the top here of course you got that push pin just like we had before on the other side and then we got this whole piece now nice and loose now on the clutch side of the bike here let's go ahead and release the scene lighting right there I would also release the scene lighting from this side to give us more room after that now we have this all exposed right here and you can see there's one two and three phillips head screws we can remove to remove this panel I'd rather do that than remove the whole thing at one time and have to remove all these cables and all this other security stuff so it seems easier to me to release those three phillips head screws now we've got those three screws out you can see it pops right out and then we've got this but the only thing connecting right here is going to be the gas cap release which can be two phillips head screws right to there and once the gas cap releases off those two screws you can pull this right out just make sure you keep everything together that metal piece right there is loose I don't have a spare hand right show you and just put this to the side with the screws keeping track of where they go now we're going to take these two out here five mil and five mil there's also a couple push pins here one here and one here remove those both the middle of it kind of pulls up then you just kind of pull the whole thing out like this now it's gone there's two wiring harnesses to the side here go ahead and disconnect those that connects this there's also two wiring harnesses on this side you need to connect also connect to the center now to pull this piece out i've already done it already so it pulls right out but there's a slider in here right and bolts to this now obviously it sits like this you gotta push it forward and then pull it out and then it'll pop right out you can see a little popper right there there are modules on both sides of the I guess this compartment box here this is going to be the ecu on the other side there's a module just go ahead and release the belt here i've got a little belt right there and then this will pull out and give us some access for both sides all right i'm going to pop off the five mil here i'm also going to remove the poppers on both sides to make sure i can get this whole plastic piece out of the way once i get this out of the way it's going to give us a little more better view into the compartment how this is linked up on top of the air box the airbox just so you guys know is right there we have to get to that all right so remove that stuff and i can wiggle this thing enough to the point where i can get into that bolt right there there's a bolt right there seeing a bolt right there i'm gonna try to do the same thing on this side all right there's also a usb here held by a grommet for the compartment here i just pulled this straight out you can just put that right back in with the ground when you're done lay it to the side i'm gonna try to get this module out right here now two phillips one on each side all right after those two screws come out basically just peel the entire module which is right here to the side very carefully because some of these wires are loose and they get hung up on a few things in there so just make sure when you peel it back you're peeling like this putting it off the side now it's out of our way there's also a relay that sits in here i've pulled this out and moved it to the side as well all right now i've already removed one bolt there that attaches this entire thing you can see it's kind of moving now good sign and then we got one over here and then we've got two up top here let's get the one right there and one right in there so i remove all four of these things and we'll see if i can wiggle this thing free and see what's attached to all right item 151 on the annoying list here there are some tabs focus on this stuff uh there's little like wiring tabs that go into the compartment here that we need to remove and make it hard to pull out so i used a flathead screwdriver pushed one side in and then these things push right out i've got a couple on the other side here too that i'm working on you can see them kind of uh let me see right in there you got to push them out and uh we'll see if this thing slides out there's also a push clip here i had to move out and that's not the right side here of it there's also a center push clip here that's also annoying you got to push out the list good news once you do all that it pulls back you got to kind of finagle some stuff around here i also had to disconnect this line right here because it didn't seem like it was ran prop it looks like it was someone did an aftermarket this plugs right into here so i gotta put that to the side and plug that back in when i'm done but now we finally got this out oh still attached still there we go finally out and there is our air box now we're gonna have to do here is remove the seven bolts around this they're all look like this they're self-capturing so when you um pull them out you just have to pull out the whole air box you have to worry about losing the bolts all right now i got all the screws out and you can see the snorkel here where it gets its air this clip needs to pull out just the flat head and then this whole air box or the top of the air box will come out and we did it there is the filter and you see a snorkel i had to push up out of the way which really is just an open snorkel just let me see if i can get a good image of it it's an open you can see right there actually just an open-ended snorkel right there so you can just move this thing and manipulate it however you want just as long as you get it back in the air box when you're done now you can see here this filter itself has i believe 10 000 miles on it there's all kinds of insects and hair and you can see this filter right there so now we're going to swap this out for the dna filter and there we go there's that empty hole that goes right to the throttle body right there here's your air box completed right there now we've got this i'm going to show you guys what this looks like against light right there you see it's filtering not bad not bad of course we got a bunch of insects and stuff in there a paper filter now we've got the dna filter you can see there's definitely more airflow going through this and from our testing we're not sacrificing any filtration now i want to see the fit here because usually that i've i'm not going to name names here but i know some filter manufacturers where it isn't a good fit and it's actually letting a little bit of dust through there which is no good you know on the sides there so let's see how good this fit is i'm doing the first time with you guys here get the b out of the way there yeah that is a proper fit end to end right there no issues with the fit that is perfect now we're ready to bolt this whole thing back together please remember where you guys put everything your screws everything like that wiring it's all very important if you have to watch this video a hundred thousand times do it if it helps but that's it guys that's all you have to do do your filter this is the first time i've done it probably took me i want to say two hours maybe something like that if i was seasoned at this um i could probably get this all knocked out within one hour if i knew exactly what i was doing figuring it out the first time is the hardest part after that it gets easy there's nothing here that's too hard it's just monotonous time consuming and a lot of things you gotta remember so just make sure you categorize your bolts push pins properly so you know exactly where they go make sure nothing's unplugged make sure you know all these little pieces right here even a couple of these unplugged because they were too loose i gotta remember these remember this over here you gotta remember to put the that back together there's a whole bunch of stuff you gotta put back together to get to this but let's see what she does in the dyno i'm curious what this bike makes on the dyno now we've changed the filter let's see if it actually improves airflow and we have quantifiable data that says this makes more power other than that this video for the install is done next video is going to be the dyno and i'll see you guys the next one