Does anyone have an HD cruise control on there non EFI bikes?
I am curious how it works is it much different from the model that comes on the road king?
I believe this is the part-http://www.harley-davidson.com/gma/gma_product.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=84552444222835 1&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374309126884&ASSORTMEN T%3C%3East_id=2534374309126884&bmUID=1162997368971 &bmLocale=en_US

 

I have 2004 FLHTC.....installed cruise myself and works great.....there has been alot of post concerning cruise
control.....do a search on the subject, you can see how things work out and what the general consensus has been.

 

Hey!
I just installed it on a 2001 FLHT
Haven't used it too much yet
But The test rides
It Is Great
Not sure if I answered Your ??
though
Thanks!

 

perhaps it work off of vacuum?

 

[quote]ORIGINAL: jmxp

I installed my Cruise control tonight. Figured I'd share some thoughts/experiences on it.

I got it from Jenni at Benjy's HD for $271. It took me about 3 hours start to finish. It's a fairly simple installation, there are just lots of steps. Most of the work was wiring it up. I have to give HD credit, it was a direct plug-in upgrade. No soldering, just plug-in, initialize and go. I'm really surprised they don't charge more for this device.

So here are the install steps:

1) Get cruise control from UPS, get beer from corner store
2) Invite a bud over to help, have a beer together
3) Open Box, examine package, take inventory of parts, make sure everything is included
4) Remove left sidecover, battery. Drink a beer here, the negative battry terminal is just a pain in the ***
5) Remove aircleaner, tell your 'helper' to stop f'ing with a wrench across your battery posts. Give him a beer to keep him occupied
6) Route the cruise cable through the frame hole, along the back cylinder and take a gentle right between the V over to the throttle body. You will definitely need a beer after this
7) Remove the headlamp beauty ring, headlamp and headlamp mounting plate. Realize that the rattle coming from the nacelle since the day you bought it was because some dipshit in Milwaukee didn't screw in one of the headlamp mounting screws and it fell into the beauty ring. You just found the offending screw. Drink a beer to celebration: one issue fixed
8) Send your helper for more beer. BTW A good friend will buy the beer since you just dropped your wad on the cruise control (official man-club rule)
9) Remove the nacelle beauty strip and the little chrome windshield
10) Put a washer in the brake handle, loosen throttle/throttle return adjusters, remove brake assembly, remove upper throttle/switch housing
11) Drop a few expletives because the grips you ordered still haven't arrived, and you're going to have to repeat this part again when they do. Drink another beer and calm down
12) Loosen the throttle return cable, slip the ferrule out and when you drop it, watch it bounce across your shop floor until you lose sight of it. Don't bother looking for it, that's why you have your helper. Give him a beer and have him get to find it
12) Once your helper finds/returns your ferrule, give him another beer and have him find the throttle side ferrule you just dropped
13) Remove throttle/throttle return cables from the housing (good luck with that), remove vampire clips along wire harness, unplug connectors inside nacell, remove harness
14) Stop here and have a beer because that sucked. PS don't remove the throttle cable retaining ring, just pull it out. Trust me, it comes out.
15) Have another beer, because putting the new harness/housing in sucks more.
16) Reverse #13 with the new harness/housing
17) Carefully, without dropping the little bastards, put the brass ferrule back on the throttle side, insert into grip. Ponder for a moment the sadistic SOB that came up with this design. Repeat for the throttle rerun side cable thing
18) Since your helper has only looked for a couple of ferrules, f'd with your bat-tree and did a beer run, make his lazy *** do the e-z side, but keep an eye on him, he's getting a little Dee-runk. By the way, if your throttle cables rub your gas cap, this is a good time to raise your bars up a notch
14) Put the headlamp mount back on, push a little rubber nut holders through, take headlamp mount back off, retrieve rubber nut holder, have another beer. Start this step over, but don't push the damn rubber nut holders through the hole. Your friend is now laughing his *** off at you because you've pushed your rubber nut holder through the hole.
15) Take the headlamp mount back off AGAIN paying attention to your rubber nut holders, put the damned useless windshield back on, and the little beauty strip, then put the headlamp mount on again for

 

I have searched and read a lot of the post but it seams like all post were regarding an EFI bike. My question was more for carbed bikes. Maybe it is the same set up?

 

Hey!
My 2001 is a carb model
I think they are all the same
There is a servo motor controling It
Not vacuum
Like I said It seemed to hold speed good the little bit I used It
I installed it myself
Thanks!

 

It works the same, off of speedometer input. There is a step in the installation procedure where you induce speedometer input and verify light configuration. My buddy put one on his 98 EVO carb bike that was listed on ebay for Fuel injection. I have a 99 TC fuel injection and the setup was identical.

 

I think what may have been missed is that it pulls on the carb in the same way as the cables from the hand throttle. There is an extra pin on the carb for that purpose. It only exists on the carbs for touring bikes as far as I know, and the style of pin was changed sometime between 99 and 01. Hope this helps answer your question.

 

The post are the same for the installation that we both did. Same cable, step motor, test procedures. Completely the same. We can interchange any part!