Bars...to install or take in?
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Bars...to install or take in?
Just received a new set of factory 47 12 inch assault bars. Factory 47 has an hour long, step by step video on youtube installing them on s brand new street glide. The video looks pretty straight forward, the only thing they dont have in the video is heated grips which my bike (19 cvo street glide) came stock with. I knew the brake and clutch line was good to go but kinda thought I needed an extension kit for the control wires, well maybe not need but would make it easier I guess. In their video the stock wires are ran externally so they just switch them right over to the new bars. My stock wires are internal so I guess worst case I could just pull them out and switch them over to my new bars. I watched their video twice and feel confident I can do it but looking for opinions here good or bad from guys that have done this. Got 3 quotes for me to provide my bars and they install, one HD dealer said $900 labor, the next dealer said $475 and the last was a indy shop at $240, quite the price gap huh, almost comical! Anyway, do I just keep my cabbage and do them myself or let a shop handle it and be done? Thanks for the help and tips!
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I negotiated with my HD dealer from 8.5hrs labor down to 5hrs. That's for 14" Factory 47 bars with all new cables and wires, radio antenna and urethane bushings. I was happy with the price and not having to give up a day of riding. They did the work on a Thursday and I was ready to go riding Friday after work.
I'd pay the $475
I'd pay the $475
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Just received a new set of factory 47 12 inch assault bars. Factory 47 has an hour long, step by step video on youtube installing them on s brand new street glide. The video looks pretty straight forward, the only thing they dont have in the video is heated grips which my bike (19 cvo street glide) came stock with. I knew the brake and clutch line was good to go but kinda thought I needed an extension kit for the control wires, well maybe not need but would make it easier I guess. In their video the stock wires are ran externally so they just switch them right over to the new bars. My stock wires are internal so I guess worst case I could just pull them out and switch them over to my new bars. I watched their video twice and feel confident I can do it but looking for opinions here good or bad from guys that have done this. Got 3 quotes for me to provide my bars and they install, one HD dealer said $900 labor, the next dealer said $475 and the last was a indy shop at $240, quite the price gap huh, almost comical! Anyway, do I just keep my cabbage and do them myself or let a shop handle it and be done? Thanks for the help and tips!
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KST also has a good video on swapping bars. I just swapped the bars on my 2015 Road Glide. Watching the KST video along with some others gave me the confidence to do it. It’s not that hard. I used the stock wires and cables with no problem, although the cables are at their limit. I got a little more slack out of the cables by snipping some of the retaining cable ties. Since my bike is a ‘15 and the last year for the big Molex connector, I had a mechanic do the wiring swap for me. Pulling the pins out of the connector and then getting them back in is the kind of thing I tend to screw up. Your bike should have the smaller connectors. Your bike will have some extra wiring due to the heated grips, and I can’t speak to that. If you have any kind of mechanical ability, you should be able to do it.
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Just did 12 FXR streetwitch apes on my 2015 SGS. Needed cable extensions but throttle and clutch were fine with slight reroute. Its a good project but lots of spots for error to happen, that would cost you more than that $240 estimate to fix.
I would put it at a 3/10 job. 4/10 if doing riser bushings. If you arent mechanical then that $240 is a steal if done well.
I would put it at a 3/10 job. 4/10 if doing riser bushings. If you arent mechanical then that $240 is a steal if done well.
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Tackled this with a NAMZ extension kit so no soldering needed. Did not have to worry about the dreaded green connector because I dis-assembled all the Molex connectors. Having the larger Wild 1 RK II bars made threading the wires much easier. Did screw up the wiring on one Molex so the bike did not start. A visual check of the wires revealed I reversed one row left to right. After a swapping the wires and a new fuse it was good to go. It did take a good bit of time so 5 hours quoted seems about right at minimum.
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Thanks for all the replys, I kept F-16 fighter jets in the air for years so I'm pretty mechanically inclined, like one of you guys stated, there does seem to be several spots for error, looks like the wiring is the most important part here. I must say the factory 47 video is step by step and makes it seem a lot less difficult. I may think on it a day or 2 but I'm leaning towards knocking it out in my shop.
