If it's like the heated grips I installed the instructions leave you scratching your head and wondering where the other parts are. So I drove over to a buddy who had a soldering iron and a couple spare hours to kill with a case of beer, my heated grip kit, some heat shrink, some zipstrips, some extra wire, an inline fuse holder and 5 amp fuse (same size as my bike fuses) [available at napa] wire connectors, end connectors, some electrical tape and a manual with wiring schematic, 3 hours later the job was done.
Rough outline of job:
Unhook battery, remove barends, remove old grips, install new grips cut out center if not open end-ended making sure the big grip goes to the throttle side(glue if needed, use high temp glue), run wires from the grips to a central location and zip strip out of the way leaving enough slack to turn the bars and twist the throttle. Wire the grips together with one wire from each side of grips soldered together to about 3 feet of spare wiring so you are left with two long wires running to both grips, install switch in convient location (I drilled a hole in the fairing but you can zipstrip it or velcro it somewhere) then run one of the long wires from the grips to the switch or dial (if a switch you run it to a T connection with the resistor going to the high side of the switch, and a straight wire to the low side) run another wire from the center part of the switch "off" (or the other terminal on the dial) to the positive on the battery through the fuse holder, or better yet run it to a spare "switched" terminal on your wiring harness (usually behind the fuse box) through the inline fuse holder [consult manual for wiring schematics]) then run the other long wire from the grips to the ground (usually a bolt on the frame with green wires running to it). Don't forget to heatshrink any soldered conections so they can't short or alternately use those wire connectors that you crimp and tape them up. Reinstall barends and hook battery back up.
I needed to lift the gas tank to run my wires out of the way, you may not need to on a more "naked" bike.
Remember if you run straight to the battery some douchebag can flip the switch when you have the bike parked and drain your battery so watch out.
Last edited by ruralhipster : 04-07-2007 at 04:13 AM.
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