This weekend I picked up a detachable rack for my 08 FXD. I looked up the mounting kit on Harleys website and only found 53961-06.

I went to local HD dealer and bought it. As I'm reading the instructions trying to figure out how to mount my turn signals I find "If used without saddlebags, install rear docking point (3) and recess cover (4) according to instructions in Part Number 53968-06C, Directional Relocation Kit."

Damn, I bought the wrong mounting kit to keep my signals where I want them.

So, is there any way to use kit 53961-06 with out moving my turn signals?

 

I believe you need a long bolt that will fit into the turn signal and reach inside the strut to the threaded bracket.

The bolt needs to be hollow so the wires can be fished through it.

If you look at the last page of the link, http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US...ts/-J04974.pdf , you'll see part D. It's the hollow stem I'm referring to

 

Lesson learned. Never again will I assume that just because I bought the correct mounting kit for my new dodad, that I don't need another complete (but different) mounting kit to make the first kit work.

So, after getting a great deal on a detachable solo rack, I then had to buy a quick release mounting kit to mount it, then I had to buy a turn signal relocation kit to bring it all together.

This felt like Harley's version of Where's Waldo!

Oh, I had to finish it up quickly because it started to sleet\rain\snow here in fabulous central Iowa!

 

Get a '13 Street Bob and then you will need one more trip to the dealer to get a license plate relocate kit.

 

i have this kit mounted 53968-06C and i use a detach backrest for my girl

 

Hi,

Any tips on getting wires through the stalk? Have bike apart and gee its tight to get the wires thru that stalk

Thanks
Mirrmu

 

Buy thinner wires. I had to do that.