I must be a terrible mechanic. I put a Gen. 3 shock on my 07, but it was hard as hell. It took me hours to remove everything and loosen all the ABS stuff to get to that bolt. Oh well, it got done. LOL
You can pry the ABS bracket up to get the bolt out or do what I did after a couple of times. Cover everything with rags and take a dremel tool and cut some clearance, put a little paint on it and never again a problem.
Yep. When I put the Ohlins on my '13 a couple weekends ago I thought I was going to have to do a lot of disassembly to get the ABS stuff out of the way, but there's enough flex in the lines to just pry things up out of the way to get the top shock bolt out. The shock swap was a fast and painless job.
