I just bought a hydraulic motorcycle jack today from Harbor Freight, (which everyone on another thread on this forum was right, how much easier!) and installed my axle mount side plate bracket. I'm also in Texas and have the large inspection sticker to deal with as well. The registration sticker is nothing since it's tiny and gets placed right on the corner of the plate itself..... but that huge annoying inspection sticker which I thought was supposed to be rear facing by the plate,.... I was able to mount by the plate. I used the same cheap and bulky aluminum plate that the dealer sent me out the door with when I bought it, but trimmed it down to size and this is what I came up with in the pic below. Sorry that the actual inspection sticker didn't come out in the pic but the sun was blasting right in the garage when I took the pic, and it's stupid hot down here lately as most know .... so I'll deal with nicer pics of things at a later point..... anyway, you can see the inspection plate that's extending from the bottom side of my vertically positioned license plate.
On another note responding to the OP's statement,.... I too thought what a pain in the butt I thought it was going to be to put on my side mount plate, but with the help of the new jack, it was nothing and took no more than 20-25 minutes to complete. I was able to remove the nut from behind the exhaust with a wrench (without having to remove any part of the exhaust) then was easily able to scoot the axle bolt out with the weight off the rear tire. I slipped on the plate mount, slid the axle back in, and tightened everything back up. I don't suspect any tension or alignment issues would be present since I never changed the positioning of the rear wheel adjusters.... so no problems and this mod ended up being much easier to do than I previously thought.
