I can attest to the brightness of the rat eyes but I'm not so sure the quality of the LEDs is as good quality, One of mine is already dull from condensation.

 

How long have you had them for? I would think they would have a no questions asked repair or replace policy for the type of money they charge for their products.

 

 

It takes about 10 minutes to get used to the 200mm tire. Leaning into turns is different. After 10 minutes you don't even know your riding on a 200mm tire. No problems with the fender. You can't ride with a passenger unless you have the two up version. Cutting the struts is something you will have think about. If you get tired of the Voo Doo you can always go with the swing arm mounted fender from Rocket Bobs. You need to use a spring seat or a fixed seat if you don't like the spring style.

 

I got the wires pulled through the handlebars. The job would have been very easy if the handlebar maker Rocket Bobs filed the inside top edges where both of the hard 90°'s come together prior to welding. Both corners were like pulling wires across the edge of a blade the entire time. I used tons of windex and wire pulling gel but no amount of lube would make the wires flow easily. The entire heat shrink got skinned up bad but I don't think any of the wires insulation was skinned. Though in fairness these are the first bars that I have done so I have no other wire pulls to compare it to but it just seems to me like filing the sharp edges before welding would ease in the wire pulling process.

Anyway, the bike is finally coming together. I am certain that the bike will be off the lift tomorrow and ridable.
After I get the bars mounted and the front end buttoned up, I am going to set the tension on the steering head bearings by doing a fall away test. After that's done the bike is 100% road worthy and the rest of the work is purely cosmetic.
I also plan on checking my belt tension because I have not had a chance to check it yet since I bought the bike.
I will keep you all posted. Good night

An hour after i started i finally got the left side control wires through.


Hand control wires after the connector was removed. A site called Lawabidingbiker.com has a really good video up on youtube showing how to remove the pins from the connector. It's really very easy.


You can see here that the heat shrink got skinned up every step of the way during the pull. You can also see the corner i was talking about that is razor sharp on the inside.


Here is the finished product all ready to be mounted. Unfortantly, four straight hours of working in 109° heat took its toll and mounting will have to wait until tomorrow. Only on AZ is it 109° at 2 AM.

 

Having a learning curve sucks. After killing myself pulling those wires through the bars, I find out Harley provides an extra set of turn signal connectors, that you can find in the neck.
I have to now undo all of the work that I just did. I have to go back, cut and heat shrink my signal wires.
The upside is having done all the work recently did shouldn't take that long.

 

Its better to find an easier way (after the fact) and redo it that way than break something, trouble shoot it and redo it anyway though.

Bars look great can't wait to see it all together.

 

I hear ya. Actually cutting and pulling the wires out shouldn't be that bad. The bundle of three wires as a whole is a nightmare moving them through the bars but I'm thinking that I can pull one wire out at a time to get them to move better. I'm just about ready to find out. It's only 97° out but we had a monsoon so it's humid as all hell.

 

Tall Timber, I forgot to thank you for the compliment on the bars.
Anyway, I clipped the turn signal wires on both the right and left control. I individually heat shrunk each wire twice. I pulled the excess wires back out of the bars, which wasn't as bad as thought it was going to be. I start reassembling everything and I get the bike buttoned up 100%. I turn my key and hear the gas pump engage. I make sure the run switch is on and I hit start, NOTHING!!!! I had just started the bike the day before so I knew what ever went wrong went wrong today while I was working. My first two thoughts were that the bike needs the negative wire from the turn signals to be grounded as reference or I burnt out a fuse. I quickly discarded the thought of the bike needing a reference because Ike I said the bike started up the day before just fine and the negative wire was disconnected then.
I call my Mark, a local builder who saves my *** when I hit a wall and he says he thinks it's a fuse.
I find out my year 2012 Dyna only has 3 fuses. It has a 40A,main fuse, a 15A P&A fuse and a 15A battery fuse. I had to pull my left side cover, on the opposite side of the battery. Then their is a little plastic cover that covers the three fuses. Getting the cover off is a nightmare. There is four clips that have to be engaged all at the same time to remove the damn thing. Why Harley's engineers put 4 clips on it is beyond me. I finally got it off by myself but having a second set of hands would have made the job easier. At least I think but then again there is so little room to work that two people might not be able to get their hand in there.

After finally getting the cover off, I come to find that I burnt out the 15A P&A fuse. I run to and buy some new ones.
Before I put the new fuse in I unplugged both hand control wires at the neck and also what I believe is the starter wire. It's the single white with red striped wire that is attached to the right side control harness. I put the fuse in and plugged the starter button wire first, it's ok. I then plug in the right side control wire, it's ok and the bike starts up. I shut the bike off and plug in the left side control wires, once again the bike won't start. I at least now know it's a issue with the left side control. It either has a short or I fried it out. I am.praying that it's just a short because HD wants 250$ per side for the hand controls.
Unfortantly it is monsoon season here in AZ and I got rained out. My bike is under my driveway awning but the wind was so strong it was blowing the rain right under my awning. It sounds like it stopped so If it has I'm going to try to fix it tonight if I can.
I told my self I wanted to learn every facet of my bike, it appears the gods were listening.

 

All good mate.

Solid trouble shooting there, hope its straight forward a fix when the weather lets you get back out there.