I'm going to be removing my rear fender for repaint soon due to some paint damage. When I painted it initially I bought some of the "weatherstrip tunnel" that's stuck to the bottom of the rear fender. The stuff the dealership sold me was smaller than original and a real PITA to pull the wiring through. Does anyone know somewhere else to get that stuff?

Thanks,

Matt

 

Cant you reuse the original/old one, and just glue it on?

 

personally i would never run wiring under the middle of the fender, ever! what a **** poor design from HD. If you run a search you will see what i do on dyna's i run shrink wrap around the inner fender rails and feed the wire though there. then you never have to worry about the tire rubbing though, so much cleaner... here is a shot from when i wired up my last fender mod

 

I did the same on my bike to have clearance for my air ride. No problems so far.

 

You can reuse the tunnel and use urethane adhesive, I have replaced my fender 2 yrs ago, still holding up. If you are planning to lower the bike, you might want to do what Joe(JRK5892) just said.

 

can't buy it new? the real stuff?

 

Who needs wires.

 

You can buy a new harness for about 50 bucks. For that money, I wouldn't worry too much about how I was going to tape the old one back in place.

 

You can buy new stuff from the stealership, but in my case all they had was a little smaller than what came on the bike, made it a PITA with the wiring, almost like pulling wires through the handlebars. I like Joe's idea, I couldn't believe how HD ran the wires from the factory when I pulled it apart. Joe, how do you attach the wires the fender or strut?

Thanks,

Matt

 

I spoke with a different guy at the stealership, seemed to know a little more. The harness for my WG is $140, so I'm out on that. HD does sell a kit, they call it conduit. The part# is 70540-02, it's $8.99. I'm going Joe's route though, seems like a better idea.

Thanks,

Matt