Yeah , there were two plugs. The larger rectangular one that had like an 8 or 10 pin plug we eventually figured out after wrecking the first pin but it was the second plug which was a smaller square shaped one with a rubber shroud you had to pull off first that made us give up. Ofcourse the stealer told me some BS on the phone about them having to be done in "a particular order to work" which I thought was complete crap but I'd rather pay a few hundred bucks that ruin or my wiring. If I ever got to watch it being done once I would be confident doing it though...

Thanks for the info!

DeanO

PS: going out to night to try and pry up a little tang for myself

 

Secondary locking wedge huh? Hmmmm, no wonder they didn't wanna come out easy My dealers gonna love me next week, got about $8k worth of bits for them to chuck on the bike... woohooo... project almost finished !

DeanO

 

Happy hunting

 

What bars you putting on? I just got a set of Carlini 1.5" freeway bars the same as pn TM's bike (pic below). Can't weight too see what they look like on the bike.

DeanO

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07 Models do not have deutsch connectors for the handlebar wiring........

They have Molex connectors.

I have done three 07 bikes now with new bars and extended the wiring and although not as easy to disassemble as the deutsch connectors on the earlier twin cams they are not that hard and are easier to get out the bottom of the handlebars due to being smaller.

Bugger if I would have a dealer do it for me........

Everytime they have done internal wiring on peoples bikes they always seem to blow fuses at odd moments and for no reason then claim it is normal.






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Learn new shiiiit every day.Sorry for the bunk info dmac. Thanks for the heads up Scotty3

 

You can always splice the extra wire into the middle (the part that will be unseen inside the bars) leaving both ends intact. If you do, make sure you stagger your splices along the wire so that you don't have a big gob of splices all in one spot making the wiring hard to pull through. And ditto on the part about smoothing the edges of the holes. Wire bending across a sharp edge will give you many hours of misery.

 

Hey thanks guys! Lots of food for thought! The bars I got are just some Chromewerks (sp?) bars - dunno what they're called but they're a bit straighter and shorter than stock which I prefer. Not quite drag bars but they keep your hands straighter than the buckhorns do. So I will have a bit of slack to play with!

Deano it's a '98 Fatboy. I'm changing bars at the same time as replacing the front end with an SJP F-Glide. It's my "poor-man's Exile"!

 

If you do go the cut and solder route I recommend staggering the cuts/solders. Unless you are a super-solderer, lining all the cuts up together will end up with a huge lump of solder, wire, and shrink tube. It'll look like a Boa that just ate a basketball and be a PITA to pull through anything. If you stagger the cuts by an inch or so you end up with a more uniform size cluster of wires which makes it much easier to pull through.

A feeder string is helpful in pulling the wires through the bars too. A quick and easy way to get string through is to tape off the opposite end of the bars. Start the string into the wiring hole while holding on to the other end of the string. Use an air compressor to blow air into the grip end of the bars. It will push the string down the bars until it pops out the bottom opening. Attach to your wires to the string and pull them through. Repeat for other side.

Oh yeah. We expect pics of the finished product. Good luck.

 

Whoops. Didn't see BG's post about staggering the cuts. Well, I second the recommendation.