Today's Oil Change

   I saw by my log in the back of my FM that it was time for an oil change -
and since I had the day off , decided to also do a few more things I've been
wanting to do .
  After six hours of intensive labor , my passing lamps are now hooked to
the aux circuit , the radio is properly grounded , the rear speakers are
loud enough to hear them , and the broken tourpak mount has been welded . I
didn't know about the radio ground or the broken mount until I started
disassembling stuff ... but knew the 'pak was vibrating more than it should
, and the radio has been flaky since I got the bike . Odd thing , I took
signal for the rear amp (aftermarket , 100w) directly from the speaker leads
at the speaker so they'd turn off when I hit the speaker off switch , but
they still have signal even when the switch is "off" .
  First time inside the fairing for me , what a Mess 'O Wires ! Good thing I
gots me a FM , or I'd have been totally lost .
--
  Snag
 Oh , and I did
change the oil
and filter .

 

Heh, heh.  I sure hear ya there.  When I set about replacing the inner
fairing on my bike and had to deal with that wiring harness...  manual
or no manual, I was worried about getting it back together correctly:

http://www.xidos.ca/Technical/RepairitYourself/RoadGlideInnerFairingRemoval=
/tabid/104/Default.aspx

So I took lots of pictures, to refer to if I screwed it up.

But, in retrospect, it wasn't all that difficult.  The saving grace is
that every single connector appears to be a unique fit - so it's
pretty well impossible to hook the wrong ones together when
reassembling.

Probably the most challenging part was getting the wiring bundled back
together in a way that it could all fit inside the fairing again.