Okay I got my bars now I need help..
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Okay I got my bars now I need help..
installing them. I have a 09 super glide. I am relocating the turn signals to the front forks. I bought the drag specialties 1 1/4 buffalo bars 6" rise. They have predrilled holes for the cables. My question is do I undo the cable on the control ends to fish the cable through the new bars. I assume you take the controls apart and unhook the cable. Any suggestions to make this a easy process just let me know. Thanks!!!
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I'm lazy, and don't feel like searching for a multitude of previous discussions on this to post a link, so I'll just type out a quick version. Fish the wires out of the frame, under the tank. Separate the connectors and pull them out of the grommets on the side of the neck. Disassemble the connectors, remove the wires from the clips along the handlebars, take controls apart. Snake the wires through the new bars, reassemble connectors, feed them into frame, reconnect. Easy-peasy. 
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Lay towel over rocker boxes. Undo tank bolts, disconnect fuel line, slide tank back. Black plastic cover snaps into bottom of frame; pull it out to expose wiring harness. One connector side is black, other is white.
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My Street Slammers have a 90 deg to get the wires around. So I used a thread with a small nut tied on to get the thread through. Then pulled a nylon string through. I cut all my wires short inside the controls. I left just enough to solder them back together and slid shrink over each. Remember to slide shrink on wire BEFORE soldering. I waxed my wire harness with liquid wax to help everything go in easy. I heated shrink tube over the wire bundle at the openings to help keep safe from abrasion.
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Not the same bars, but same procedure. Unplug the controls from their respective plugs in the backbone. (remove seat, unbolt gas tank, unplug quick disconnect gas line, carefully slide tank back. There is a plastic guard on the underside of the backbone, right behind the neck. Two plastic tabs on each side, lock the plastic guard into place. Remove plastic guard to access the wiring bundle.)
You should have the Molex style connector. To remove the wires from the connector, this is what I used:
(the small metal wire, is the end of a throttle return spring)
Before you remove the wires, make a diagram of the color and position. Some people take a close up digital picture of the plug and the wires going into it.
I used a small piece of bow string to pull the wires through the bars... by blowing the string through with compressed air. I taped off all the holes I did not want the string to come out, and left open the hole I did:
I had to add some length to the wires, so soldered in extensions. You probably don't need to do this.
I covered the end of the cables coming out of the bars and back into the backbone, with braided nylon:
You should have the Molex style connector. To remove the wires from the connector, this is what I used:
(the small metal wire, is the end of a throttle return spring)
Before you remove the wires, make a diagram of the color and position. Some people take a close up digital picture of the plug and the wires going into it.
I used a small piece of bow string to pull the wires through the bars... by blowing the string through with compressed air. I taped off all the holes I did not want the string to come out, and left open the hole I did:
I had to add some length to the wires, so soldered in extensions. You probably don't need to do this.
I covered the end of the cables coming out of the bars and back into the backbone, with braided nylon:
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