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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 09:05 PM
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Putting 16" ape hangers on my 08 Softail Custom. Doing this on the cheapcheap.....I cut the wires that were already ran internally. I'm about to start re-soldering with the correct length wires when I notice a problem. I have 9 wires coming outta the switch housing but it only leads to 8 wires under the tank. I take a closer look and notice that I have 2 orange wires with a white stripe...one goes to the horn and the other to the left turn signal. Really wished I was paying closer attention....
Question is....do I just re-solder these back together and then solder the wire extension? I think it can handle the load cause its not very often (never in fact) I have the left signal on while I'm using the horn but I could be way off base here.
I already had some other people check it out to make sure one wire isn't brown and one orange but everyone agrees it is orange w/white stripe.
Thanks in advance for the help.

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Old Mar 15, 2010 | 10:39 PM
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Those two orange and whites get spliced together and then get the extenion soldered to them. There is a factory splice in the original handlebar harness.
 
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Old Mar 16, 2010 | 05:15 AM
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ahhh...thank you very much. Thats what I figured just had to be sure.
 
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also, when all wiring is completed apply some dielectric compound to the male/female connector pins.
 
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