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I was looking at my buddies 05 sportster and noticed the coil wires are routed a bit differently than my 07. He had clips holding the coil wires where the horn bolts to and mine are missing. Also i have a short coil wire that is going to the front cylinder where his wraps around under the gas tank and goes to the front cylinder. Also my rear coil wire is laying across the cylinder head which i dont think is right. Both of my coil wire clips are missing from the horn bracket. Does anyone have a schematic or picture of where to properly route these wires?
You can use this link to look up every part on your Sporty. Just choose the year and model, then browse all the different diagrams, with part numbers and descriptions.
Here is how my 2004 looked from the factory. Below is how the parts catalog shows it so that is no help. The clips aren't sold separately, you have to buy the whole wire. Someone might have put wires from a bigger bike on it.
It looks like I gave you some bad information. I thought you had the 2005 which is the parts list I showed you above. You have the 2007 which is fuel injected and does have completely different plug wires and not clips. Your friends bike is carburated. It looks like what you have is correct.
Comparing spark plug routing between an 05 carb and an 07 EFI bike is like comparing apples to oranges. The spark plug cable routing from Harley is just fine.
Last edited by TexasScooterTrash; Sep 13, 2022 at 07:24 AM.
I see that the coil wires are correct thank you for the info. But is the rear coil wire supposed to be laying across the cylinder head? Seems like over time its going to burn through
Changed the plugs today and i was wondering, are the plug wires supposed to audibly click onto the plugs? Mine just went on without any click or anything, they arent loose because they take force to pull off but im just nor used to this style of plug with the cap. Im used to the threaded style plug, if that makes sense
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Coil wire routing
