I put apes on my 900 last year and looked for a harness but couldn't find one. Ended up extending my wires the same way your thinking about doing yours.
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Yeppers, extending the wires is how you do it.
And.. as long as your doing THAT, if your new bars are predrilled, you should run the wiring thru it.
Shoot..even if they are not pre-drilled, tis not hard to drill em out.
I ran with the STOCK bars until last year.. here is a pic of when I ran the wiring thru the STOCK bars...Even my tack was routed thru there.. really cleans the lines up...
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And.. as long as your doing THAT, if your new bars are predrilled, you should run the wiring thru it.
Shoot..even if they are not pre-drilled, tis not hard to drill em out.
I ran with the STOCK bars until last year.. here is a pic of when I ran the wiring thru the STOCK bars...Even my tack was routed thru there.. really cleans the lines up...
iz, study yor bars and determine how much wire is needed to get thru the bars.
measure your stock wires from hand controls down to the connectors in the headlamp cavity. IF there is enuff length in the stock wires to clear thru the bars, you mite do well to pull them first and then splice after.
use a thin string with a paper or cloth mouse/tail on the leading feed end. use a vacuum hose and suck this prelimary pull string thru the bars, one each side. use these liteweight strings to pull a hevry weight pull string.
Remove the electric connectors from the harness and feed the stock cables from handgrip down to the center exit.
If you did your homwork rite, you should have plenty of wire emerge past the exit to work with to do your splices. This way you are not dependant upon the strength of your solder and the bulk they add to the dimension, requiring offset splices.
at this point if you are happy with the initial pull, (I would be), you could just use crimp bullet connectors to the added wires and reconnect to the electric fittngs in the headlight bucket. It provides a more serviceable method for future mods... but thats just how I would do it. poncho
ps. I would do all this on the bench and not on the bike.
btw, if I was pulling wires, would do as in all my construction projects; pull extra spare cables if they will fit, leave them inside the bar grip area until that next add on mod. then the unforseen needed wires (circuits) will already be available for you to take advantage of... ex. heated grips? aux lamps, chaff-flares, oil inject exhaust-smoke screen deployment, oil road spray behind in fast-tite corners, or even the standard issue machine guns.. all w/o taking yor hands off the grips. win/win
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