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The local shop quoted me 4-6 hours labor to change the bars on my 2013 Road King Police which required the headlight nacelle to be taken apart. I decided to tackle it myself since it looked like I did not need to change the clutch or brake lines. The wiring did need to be extended and a Namz kit made that easy. The Wild 1 bars were larger in diameter than stock so changing from external to internal wiring wasn't too tough.
I did mine myself. I fully understand why they charge so much. It is not a simple process.
Remove fairing cap,
remove seat and tank
Remove radio, completely
There are just a lot of things in the way that you have to deal with just to get to the bars work.
Just FWIW.......
It may be different for different model years, but.... On my 2016 Bagger, I was able to replace the bars by removing the outer fairing cover, the ignition switch cover, and then just tilting the rest of the fairing forward to gain access to the bar clamp....
In this pic, I removed the tank for other things I was doing at the time, but I could have changed the bars with the fairing tilted forward and the tank still in place...
Last edited by hattitude; Jun 5, 2019 at 09:32 AM.
A guy I ride with had apes installed on his '16 Fatboy an it was over $1100 for parts an labor....extending wires an lines....working inside the fairing an moving it adds labor to that so that sounds like a good price.
I paid a $1000 at my HD dealer here in MD and ended up a $100 more when I added the clutch cable to the cost which included throttle and brake cables for my 07, RK. They had it two days. Seems fair.
Originally Posted by rysonn
In speaking to my Independent service shop I normally use for all of our work I was given a price of 933.00 which includes the 14' bars, the cable/wiring kit and the labor to do the install on my Street Glide with ABS. Does that sound about right? I know people do it themselves but there is just a part of my that is fearful of the process of running all of the wires through the new bars, plus all of the messing with brake, clutch and ABS stuff concerns me a bit too.
after running all my wires internally (including heated grips) and digging out the rats nest behind the fairing, i'd happily pay someone to do that work. I also couldn't be paid to pull wires through bars again. And i have wildones. don't know how the yaffe bar guys do it...
One Shop in reno nv quoted me 1500 to put 16 yaffe monkeys bars on my 15 FLHTK that included all the parts and labor. And he said I could choose braided or none braided lines
Originally Posted by rysonn
In speaking to my Independent service shop I normally use for all of our work I was given a price of 933.00 which includes the 14' bars, the cable/wiring kit and the labor to do the install on my Street Glide with ABS. Does that sound about right? I know people do it themselves but there is just a part of my that is fearful of the process of running all of the wires through the new bars, plus all of the messing with brake, clutch and ABS stuff concerns me a bit too.
Damn; you guys are making me kick myself. A vendor at J&P Cycles at bike week quoted me $700 installed and I thought that was crazy money. I guess I should'a jumped.
Damn; you guys are making me kick myself. A vendor at J&P Cycles at bike week quoted me $700 installed and I thought that was crazy money. I guess I should'a jumped.
It largely depends on the size of the bars, my understanding is 10 inches or below don't require new cabling.
The only problem I see with having someone else do the install is getting them adjusted correctly. I just installed 14 HCC bars on my 13 SG and it was pretty easy. I did run my own wiring and that was by far the hardest part. I installed them, rode about a week and had to pull it back apart and adjust them. I might need to do it again.
I would hate hate to have to pay someone to pull it apart to make an adjustment.
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