Well, I do believe I'm done with the mods for this "winter season" and figured I would do just a short write-up that some may find helpful (or not). These mods/upgrades were done on my 2011 FLHTK.

(A) Replaced inner fairing with a color-matched inner fairing. Straight-forward swap....

(B) Replaced OEM gauges with a set of Dakota Digitals. Straight-forward swap, except I
needed to install the Oil Temp Sensor in the oil pan (real easy).....

(C) Installed Detachable Tour-Pak Mounting Kit. Not real hard, just took some time to
figure it out. Ran into two unexpected issues: (1) Once I had the rack installed, for
some mysterious/unknown reason, my front fairing speakers were not working. Finally,
I tracked down the problem and resolved it. It "appears" as though, somewhere in
the "big electrical system loop", the radio antenna needs to be grounded properly for
everything to work right (including the front speakers). When you remove the Tour-
Pak liner, you'll see the required ground wire running from the radio antenna down to
one of the Tour-Pak mounting bolts, which is where the problem rests. When you
install the Detachable Mounting Kit, the four points become "rubber-isolated" from the
frame, thus, you end up losing the ground to the frame. All I did was tap into a good
frame ground source elsewhere, run a wire and attach it right where the original
attaching bolt is; problem solved! (2) Second issue. There is no "mounting
bracket" on my right-hand side saddlebag support in order to mount the relocated
CB antenna bracket (On the left-hand side, the mounting bracket is there for the
relocated radio antenna bracket). Although I have installed the "slimmed-down"
HD Saddlebag Support Kit (90881-09A), I would have thought that HD still would
have welded on that required bracket to the right-hand side as well. Either it is an
oversight on their part OR I received a "defective" Saddlebag Support Kit. On well,
just one of those things that I will have to figure out a "work-around" for....

 

How do u like the oil temp guage is it worth all the work

 

Haven't really had a chance to "evaluate" it's worth yet. Not really any "work" to install it except for running the wires under the tank up to the fairing area...which is always an adventure. It should, however, be a whole lot more useful than the Air Temp Gauge that came as OEM equipment....

 

No pictures??

 

I was wondering how hard it was to install the oil tem sensor, did you have to drill, or use the existing oil plug or what?

 

That is like a 1500 dollar mod, Can we see the color matched fairing and dakota lights, I dont have the $$$ for those changes right now, but If I did I would do it. Where did you get the color matched innner fairing, HD???

 

The Oil Temp Sensor (comes with the Dakota Kit...) is real easy. My oil pan has two
drain plugs from the factory. The sensor screws right Into one of them; no drilling.
I ordered the color-matched inner fairing direct from HD

 

SUPER NICE!!! Looks great.

Mod choice question: I have not done any mods yet except for stereo and slip ons, and with all the choices out there as far as theme, color and contrast cuts, why did you go with the blue light set up instead of the red, for contrast? WHy not red, IMP still looks great, but you know color theme and all, just wondering what you take into account when making the decision.

 

For contrast. I felt that going "red" on the gauges would be too much red! I like the contrast of the "blue" against the red fairing....

 

did you change the color of the radio light or is that still red? congrats looks nice, some white gauge bezels and national anthem on a cd and your set