DO I need speaker adapters?
DO I need speaker adapters?
I have an 07 EG standard and I am trying to put a pair of hogtunes speakers in, but they don't look like they mount flush to the speaker cover plate. Do I need an adapeter for the speaker?
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From: Roswell, GA
RE: DO I need speaker adapters?
Tyrant, my '04 police model EG needed the HD speaker adapters when I installed a stereo headunit.
You can tell if you need the adapters by how the silver,horizontal fairing brackets are attached to your fairing.One end of each bracket is connected by screws to the black, vertical fairing brackets. On the other end of each silver, horizontal bracket,if the brackets werescrewed directly to the innter fairing your bike didn't have the speaker adapters and you need to buy them from HD.
The speaker adapters go between the front of the speaker and the inner fairing itself. They're just black plastic castings ~3/4" thick. When they are installed, they use three screws to secure the speaker and the adapter to the inner fairing; one of the threescrews alsosecures the horizontal fairing bracket so you'll have a screw going through the horizontal bracket, speaker frame, speaker adapterthen into the inner fairing.
I'm pretty sure that your Standard didn't come with the speaker adapters because Biketronics includes the adapters with its Retro Radio Kits for EG Standards--if your bike came with the adapters Biketronics wouldn't include them with the kit--but I don't know for sure.
You can tell if you need the adapters by how the silver,horizontal fairing brackets are attached to your fairing.One end of each bracket is connected by screws to the black, vertical fairing brackets. On the other end of each silver, horizontal bracket,if the brackets werescrewed directly to the innter fairing your bike didn't have the speaker adapters and you need to buy them from HD.
The speaker adapters go between the front of the speaker and the inner fairing itself. They're just black plastic castings ~3/4" thick. When they are installed, they use three screws to secure the speaker and the adapter to the inner fairing; one of the threescrews alsosecures the horizontal fairing bracket so you'll have a screw going through the horizontal bracket, speaker frame, speaker adapterthen into the inner fairing.
I'm pretty sure that your Standard didn't come with the speaker adapters because Biketronics includes the adapters with its Retro Radio Kits for EG Standards--if your bike came with the adapters Biketronics wouldn't include them with the kit--but I don't know for sure.
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From: Boise, ID
RE: DO I need speaker adapters?
My 03 EG Standard had some adapters in there, but I had to modify them a bit to make the hogtunes work. Mostly, the speaker cones hit on them, so I had to flip them over, then the slot didnt line up, so I made them bigger. I don't know if later years are different. Let me know if you have more problems, I just did this 2 weeks ago. They sound awesome BTW.......
RE: DO I need speaker adapters?
I thought that I needed them. It turns out that they were already on the bike. I wasn't sure about it and I had the bike apart. Everythings good and works well
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