I have not taken the handlebar controls apart yet.

My service manual is in the mail.

Im making a parts order for Black Friday.

Im adding cruise to my FLHT and chrome controls.

Since I dont have a radio and see no need for the radio functions on the handlebars Im wondering if I can use RK control housings and drop the radio controls. Thats less wires to feed through the bars.

So my question is: Once I pull the housings apart will the radio switchs seperate from the rest of the assembly or is it all one assembly?

If I add a radio later I can live without the handlebar controls, never had them in 35+ years of riding anyway.

 

You'll have to cut the wires.

 

I'm confused by your reference to pulling wires through the handlebars. Are you planning to run the handlebar switch wiring through the stock bars?

You can remove the audio control switches from the housings and pull the wires after they have been released from the Molex connector inside the fairing or simply cut-off the audio wires at the Molex connector.

You could buy the chrome lower housing used for the RK Classic for the right side to accommodate the cruise switch in the right side, and buy the RK non-cruise chrome lower housing for the left side; the upper housings would be the same cruise or no-cruise.

Seems like a lot of trouble to go through rather than doing a simple cruise control install using chrome FLHT housings.

Carl

 

My plan is to do +2 sweepers, cruise, replace everything on the handlebars with chrome, and internal wiring.

So everything will be apart anyway, may as well get it all done at once.

 

True, you might as well do as much as you can while you're in there. Like you, I have no radio on my Road Glide, but one of the radio control switches came in handy. I wired my garage door remote to the "mode control" switch on the right handlebar. The switch & wiring were there, & the housing wasn't going to change if I took it out, so I used it. Nice clean install & you can't tell it's not stock.

 

IIRC, HD sells a kit for the EG Ultra so the lower right side housing provide for audio and cruise switches on the right side, and EG Classic and Standard with provision for the audio switch only; no cruise. HD doesn't sell a kit for EG Classic, Standard, Street Glide with cruise added; so, you can buy either the Ultra or Classic kit and buy either of the lower housings you need for your application: (1) if you buy the Ultra kit, you'll have the correct right side lower housing but not the lower left side housing since the kit will come with a lower housings for audio and PTT; or, (2) buy the FLHT kit which won't have the correct lower right side housing for the cruise set/resume switch.

The instructions from HD's website include the p/n's for the various components of the kits so if you want to use RK housings, or retain your audio controls with the correct lower housings needed:

http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US...ts/-J00445.pdf

Carl