Swapping 12” ape bars
Swapping 12” ape bars
hi I’m new here and couldn’t find this topic. I just got my first bike a 2015 iron 883 and the prev owner had installed 12 inch apes. I kind of like them but wondering how hard it would be to swap it out with the stock bar, he gave it to me along with the cables as well. When I went to my harley dealership they said it would cost 2000 dollars in labor.
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hi I’m new here and couldn’t find this topic. I just got my first bike a 2015 iron 883 and the prev owner had installed 12 inch apes. I kind of like them but wondering how hard it would be to swap it out with the stock bar, he gave it to me along with the cables as well. When I went to my harley dealership they said it would cost 2000 dollars in labor.
You tube has some instructionals on how to install the bars, but not how to revert back to the stock bars... Guess I'll just try doing the reverse
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are the wires run internally in the bars you have on now? Going from 12s to the stock should be a piece of cake if they are run externally. If they run internally its still not bad. For my bike its a 2008 to change back to the stock bars i would have to pull the tank back, unplug the wiring harness (on each side) then take the moxlex connectors apart on both sides then unhook the clamshells then pull the wires through, take off the bars, put the new ones back on then just run the wires externally along the stock bars then zip tie up the excess wiring harness on both sides so it looks good, put the molex connectors back on the ends then plug it back in, then slide the tank back into place. Theres a little more to it than that, and less if you dont have to take the molex connectors off the end of the cables.
Those guys are quoting you time to install ape bars, installing all new clutch cables, throttle cables, pulling the wires through the bars and it sounds like the price of the bars and all new SS cables ect. To just go back to stock from 12's if your running the cables external shouldnt charge you more than 2 hrs...$200 at the MOST. These guys sound like ********.
Those guys are quoting you time to install ape bars, installing all new clutch cables, throttle cables, pulling the wires through the bars and it sounds like the price of the bars and all new SS cables ect. To just go back to stock from 12's if your running the cables external shouldnt charge you more than 2 hrs...$200 at the MOST. These guys sound like ********.
Last edited by saltlick; Mar 25, 2018 at 07:22 PM.
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if you got a 2015 im thinking you dont even have to pull the plugs off the wiring harness to get them back out of the 12s that are on there now (if they are currently running internal in the bars) mine you do because they are too big to fit through the bars. I think the biggest challenge you should have is having the pull the tank back to get to where the wiring harness is so you can plug them back in. That and figuring out how to unhook the throttle cable but there is all kinds of videos on how to do that. Sounds like a piece of cake you can do it yourself in an hour.