Moving the trunk backwards and passenger backrest upwards

As most of the LT riders know the trunk has two factory positions. The factory setting is "forward" and this can easily be seen from outside by checking if the rear part of the trunk is flush with the rear light panel of the bike.
If you want to move the trunk backwards in the rearmost factory setting, remove the trunk liner and open the four bolts in the bottom of the trunk and move it backwards in the next holes. The difference between these positions is about 30 mm.
Well, I needed to go even further backwards with my trunk....

In this picture the trunk is moved another 30 mm backwards from the factory rearmost position.

The reasons for this project were:
1) My new hanging luggage rack needed upper fixing points for the supporting steel cables.
2) My motorized back rest adjuster eats up some space from my dear pillion so I needed to make some more space for her.

I used 40 x 5 mm flat steel bars. The reason for their excess length was this:

This steel bar gives extra support to my luggage rack. 

Here the new trunk supports are in place. The rearmost 6 mm threaded holes (for the trunk) are actually on the outside of  the rear panel. In this picture the luggage rack cable support bar is also in place but this part as well as the extra length is not needed if you only want to move the trunk backwards.

Here the extra luggage rack is in position but how this was made is another story...

Moving the trunk backwards gives one more bonus: It makes a nice storage space for my rain gear. But in order to have access to this space the passenger backrest must be moved upwards.

Here is the new storage space. In this picture the passenger backrest is already moved upwards since if that is not done, the lower edge of the backrest blocks the access to this compartment.

I simply drilled new holes some 20 mm higher than the original ones. And covered the old holes with black duct tape from both sides. This has worked since 2005...

One cannot really tell that the backrest sits higher.

And here is the view from the rear...

Here is my rain gear packed. Trousers, rain jacket, heavy rain gloves and nowadays also a twin umbrella. 

The rain gear dis not look very nice squeezing out from the gap between the passenger backrests....

So I added a black vinyl cover in there. (This picture is some years younger as you can see from the new seats.)

I glued the upper part of the vinyl in the trunk wall right behind the backrest. The lower part of the vinyl is held in place with Velcro on the back side of rear seat. (Here the vinyl was still being trimmed.)