Add A Tach- Splice To Purple/Green Wire?
I'm looking at adding a tach to the Street Bob- I found a few of the old threads but a lot of the images dissapeared and no one gave an positive info, but someone mentioned you can simply splice into the purple and green wire running under the seat and you'd have signal?
Sounds easier than some of the other write ups, but has anyone successfully done this? |
On my '04 Softail I tapped directly into the tach feed at the speedo. Could be your wiring is different, though.
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I know that pin 3 on the ecm plug works great on the 06 street bob and being the same connector is used in the 07 i would assume it be the same When you open the connector you see there is three tiny blue rubber plugs in a row on the one end. Starting from the end go 3 back it the last open one in that row and install a pin works great. You get the pins at the dealer for 11 cents and i had them crimp it and add wire to mine all for the effort of getting the service guy a coffee while i was waiting.
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Originally Posted by latrobedyna
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I know that pin 3 on the ecm plug works great on the 06 street bob and being the same connector is used in the 07 i would assume it be the same When you open the connector you see there is three tiny blue rubber plugs in a row on the one end. Starting from the end go 3 back it the last open one in that row and install a pin works great. You get the pins at the dealer for 11 cents and i had them crimp it and add wire to mine all for the effort of getting the service guy a coffee while i was waiting.
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Originally Posted by QC
(Post 12646136)
On my '04 Softail I tapped directly into the tach feed at the speedo. Could be your wiring is different, though.
Where is the tach feed on the speedo? That's the other vague answer I'm seeing. "I just drew everything from the speedo". Meaning what exatly? Any certain color wires...? |
Originally Posted by emerican19
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Where is the tach feed on the speedo? That's the other vague answer I'm seeing. "I just drew everything from the speedo".
Meaning what exatly? Any certain color wires...? |
Look at this and open the link on the first post to get to a step by step with a lot of pics:
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/elect...-4-of-4-a.html |
Originally Posted by emerican19
(Post 12646091)
I'm looking at adding a tach to the Street Bob- I found a few of the old threads but a lot of the images dissapeared and no one gave an positive info, but someone mentioned you can simply splice into the purple and green wire running under the seat and you'd have signal?
Sounds easier than some of the other write ups, but has anyone successfully done this? . . first. need to know - what tach are you using?? . . . |
On mine, there was an open pin with a pink plug in it on the speedo plug, I think it was the 3rd wire from one end. The service manual's wire diagram should tell you. I got a connector from the dealer just as loopie did and picked the orange/yellow wire for power and a black wire for ground. This is for a cheap J&P Cycles tach.
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My 2012 service manual shows the tach just tapping into the speedo wires. No idea what this looks like on the harness. For 2012 tach:
pin 2 white/red CAN high pin 5 red/orange Battery fuse pin 7 black/green Ground pin 8 white/black CAN low What year / model bike did the tach come from? What part number is on the back of the tach? Maybe someone else can help with the correct service manuals. Good luck - I'm trying the same thing on my bike. |
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