I didnt cut any off of my BARS. Had to cut the wires and add leads onto them. * just a hint, when you cut your wires and add leads, stagger your solders so they are not all in the same place and doesnt cause an area too thick to fit through the bars. Just finishes mine this past weekend LOVE THEM!! Let me know if i can be of anymore help.

 

quote:Originally posted by bigted

I didnt cut any off of my BARS. Had to cut the wires and add leads onto them. * just a hint, when you cut your wires and add leads, stagger your solders so they are not all in the same place and doesnt cause an area too thick to fit through the bars. Just finishes mine this past weekend LOVE THEM!! Let me know if i can be of anymore help.



Staggering the solder joints is ESSENTIAL to ensuring a nice fit. As you may have found, the cavity for the wires is quite narrow. I didn't remove any length off the bars, but will be adding weights to them soon!

 

THANKS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY I ALREADY MADE THE MISTAKE BOTH OF YOU HAVE LISTED. WISH ME LUCK!!!

 

jland68,

a word of advice on future posts - all CAPS = YELLING in a forum, and all over the on-line world. Please refrain from using all caps unless you need to do it specifically to get a point across. Thanks!

 

I didn't cut mine neither. I sugest not to cut them, since the diameter for the grips is different from the rest of the bar you might have problems with controls and grips location...

 

who really cares about all caps anyway not me

200MM

 

Since you have already got your solders together, its much easier to pull one wire at a time especially on the left side. just dont forget to attatch a pull wire to the end of every wire so you will have something to pull the next wire through. good luck.

 

Good luck it is very tedious. I didn't cut anything off of my Bars either

 

quote:Originally posted by 200MM

who really cares about all caps anyway not me

200MM


http://www.rswarrior.com/forums/rules.asp#rulesid9

 

i am also thinking of getting the radius bars, so this will help a lot.

 

just finished my rad bars last night, a couple of notes:

the dental floss / vaccuum trick worked fine for me
i found it easiers to pull all the original wires thru the bars 1st then solder the extensions on
do not rush, i started this mod sat night, i had to undo everything once because i was rushing and had a short in the bar

 

Liquid,
your summary sounds about right. That's how we learn.

 

Tell you the truth, I didn't hide the wires and it looks fine.

 

I installed my bars this weekend following a combination of redhorse and darkstar's directions. They worked great, no shorts but I learned how to solder and solder and resolder. The only thing I'm not sure about is that I have excessive vibration. I installed the ISO grips at the same time as the bars. The vibration is so bad that my throttle hand goes numb. Any ideas?

 

Did you tighten the bars down too much. IF you crush those rubber wahers in teh tree it will cause more vibs. I put some rubber washers on top of the tree.

 

I added a 1 1/4 inch SS washer between the bars and the rubber bushing and tightened the bars down to 29 ft lbs as recommended. I seem to get more vibration slightly about 2500 RPM. Any ideas?

 

I added a 1 1/4 inch SS washer between the bars and the rubber bushing and tightened the bars down to 29 ft lbs as recommended. I seem to get more vibration slightly about 2500 RPM. Any ideas?

 

sorry about the caps! i will do better. i finished the job, but couldn't pull the wires in at the top of the bars. be sure not to put you connections together so that you will not run into the same problems. i gathered them as much as possible ans covered them with conduit. looks ok, but not optimal!!!

 

Big Daddy I used the ss washers but ialso used rubber washers also

 

My stock bars had a washer above and below the rubbers in the tree. When I installed the bars, I just reused the washers. I nomally cruise in the 2500 to 3500 range with no vibrations. By the way, I must be a retard because I'm a mechanic by trade and I couldn't get the floss thing to work. I ended up using safe-T wire and pulling the wires through two at a time. It took me eight hours to wire the whole thing up correctly. Not to mention the fact that I got my local electrical outlet guy pissed at me when I berrated him about not having eleven different color 20 gauge wire.