Work on the Harley

Posted by Rob James on Thursday, August 19, 2010 in Featured Articles, General, My Harley |

I have been planning to do some work on the Harley for some time now. The main things that I wanted to scheduled to do was; fix my rear indicator lights (I did not put them on correctly when I fitted them last year), fit my new leather seat and fit a new headlight I recently ordered.

Since my ride to Alice Spring for Riding4aCause.org is only 2 weeks away, it was time to knuckle down and do some work.

Installation of the Seat

First the seat, which should be a 10 minute job; 8 minutes to remove the old one, and 2 minutes to fit the new one. But someone neglected to tell me about the 13 hours required to relocate all the electronics that no longer fit under the new seat!!!! grrrrrr

That was when the fun began. Check this out, this is when I had all the electronics pulled apart ready to do the work.

And a close up of all the electronics hanging around on the fuel tank;

That's the Power Commander V Computer with Auto Tune units. My neat install from last year had to be relocated. You can't see very well in the above shot, but I had to remove the bracket that held the fusebox, Harley factory Computer, alarm and connectors for the PCV. I remounted them all on some rubber matting that I bought to hold it all in place.

While I had everything apart, I admired some of the work I did last year on my Arnott's Air Shocks. Check out the compressor mounting

Now if only I can make everything else look as neat as this!!!

New Headlight

Once I got all the wiring done, I fitted the new headlight. So here is the photo of the old headlight….

I kind of like the look of the cowling on the headlight, and I keep changing my mind every day about it, but its probably the one thing that makes this look least like a Harley. Since its an easy swap, and I can always swap back. I bought a V-ROD R headlight in black to try that on for a bit. And this is with it installed;

What do you think?

Fix the Indicators

Last job, fix the indicators. This was actually a lot of work, basically have to pull the shocks off to do this job. Most people wouldn't even know the difference, but I do, so I had to do it. Here are the finished lights;