Help needed: Handle bar wiring question
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Help needed: Handle bar wiring question
So I am on my phone and cant use the search function.
Got my bike all jacked up and am switching the bars. I am putting new sigs on so I cut those wires.
I have a service manual but have not found where it addresses this: Do I just cut the wiring and resplice on the new bars set up or do I track back to the battery and disconnect the wires there and pull the harness up and through the bars. Or am I just missing something else completely???
Any help appreciated.
Got my bike all jacked up and am switching the bars. I am putting new sigs on so I cut those wires.
I have a service manual but have not found where it addresses this: Do I just cut the wiring and resplice on the new bars set up or do I track back to the battery and disconnect the wires there and pull the harness up and through the bars. Or am I just missing something else completely???
Any help appreciated.
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Not sure why you cut the wires ... not sure about your Street Bob, but my '05 FXDI Super Glide there's a 6-pin AMP plug that you would just unplug ... pull the wiring from the handlebars and then re-route it to where you're moving the sigs ....
But, if you cut the wires, I suppose at this point you'll just need to splice and run the turn sig wires to your new setup ....
R/
'Chop
But, if you cut the wires, I suppose at this point you'll just need to splice and run the turn sig wires to your new setup ....
R/
'Chop
there should be no need to track back to the battery, all the wires should plug into the harness in the backbone, under the front of the tank there
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Not sure why you cut the wires ... not sure about your Street Bob, but my '05 FXDI Super Glide there's a 6-pin AMP plug that you would just unplug ... pull the wiring from the handlebars and then re-route it to where you're moving the sigs ....
But, if you cut the wires, I suppose at this point you'll just need to splice and run the turn sig wires to your new setup ....
R/
'Chop
But, if you cut the wires, I suppose at this point you'll just need to splice and run the turn sig wires to your new setup ....
R/
'Chop
I think he is saying he knows what to do with the turn sigs, but is wondering what to do with the control wiring.
I prefer to cut them at the control housing and pull through the new bars. If you are not in a hurry, you can pick up a full color coded wiring harness to pull through your new bars and just splice, solder, and shrinkwrap the wires at each end. Did this to mine and also to my brothers in 05 and he has had no issues since. I think the solder joints are actually stronger than the pins at the connectors if done correctly and shrink wrapped properly.
I prefer to cut them at the control housing and pull through the new bars. If you are not in a hurry, you can pick up a full color coded wiring harness to pull through your new bars and just splice, solder, and shrinkwrap the wires at each end. Did this to mine and also to my brothers in 05 and he has had no issues since. I think the solder joints are actually stronger than the pins at the connectors if done correctly and shrink wrapped properly.
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There is no need to cut anything, just disassemble the connectors that are in the backbone under the tank.
Once you disassemble, you pull the wires out of the bars, easy to do, everything is up front.
Once you disassemble, you pull the wires out of the bars, easy to do, everything is up front.
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Awesome. Knew I was missing something. Thanks!
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Just looking for this this morning. Do I have to lift the tank up to access the connectors?