Members Birthdays
|
|
Main Menu
|
|
23rd March 2012
|
|
Biker
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 6 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh Ironhead Sportster/Buell Year: 1975
Reputation: 10
|
|
First post, Got a couple questions. Any help would be great! (95 switches on a 75)
Hey guys, first post on here, iv been browsing around a decent bit before hand though. I bought my first Harley 2 days ago..picked up a 75 ironhead. All stock, mustang double seat, sissy bar, ram horn bars. My questions: I want to swap the stock bars for either drags or 14" narrow apes, but iv got some issues with the turn/horn/fire buttons on the factory controls...Rather than look around for new switches and keep the crusty stock stuff, is there anyway i can use factory 95/up controls and just cut the connectors off and splice them into my factory harness? i know the newer style has a double line for throttle? and mine has a single, if thats an issue? Also, iv gotta tighten my chain up; and i heard that a 1/2" play is optimum. Any help would be great guys! Lovin the site so far!
Last edited by Folkie; 24th March 2012 at 16:33..
|
23rd March 2012
|
 |
Flat Track Champion
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 690 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 iron Sportster/Buell Year: 2010 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1200 custom Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2006 Other Motorcycle Model: Triumph Bonneville Other Motorcycle Year: 2011
|
|
Im sure someone will pipe in welcome to the forum
|
23rd March 2012
|
 |
XL FORUM TEAM MEMBER
|
|
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Irwin, Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,951 Sportster/Buell Model: Hammer 1250 Hugger Sportster/Buell Year: 1997
|
|
Welcome to the forum from SW Pennsylvania.
I'm sure some of our Ironhead guru's will chime in soon.
__________________
Support the forum because the 
George
"Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading . "
--Thomas Jefferson
Hammer Performance 1250 kit w/ 30* Reverse Dome Pistons, Smash Level 883 Head Treatment w/ 1.770 Intake/ 1.615 Exhaust & PAC Alloy Beehive Spring Pack, Impact 560 Lift Cams, Billet Aluminum Intake Manifold, Air Hammer Naked Billet Air Cleaner w/ 3" K&N Element, Mikuni HSR 42, Dynatek 2000P Ignition, Basanni Road Rage 2-1 Exhaust with a 4" Performance Machine Billet Tip.
|
23rd March 2012
|
 |
fisherofmen
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: alabama
Posts: 4,459 Sportster/Buell Model: 1200 C Chopper Sportster/Buell Year: 2005 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1200 R Sportster/Buell Year #2: 08 Other Motorcycle Model: XLH 1000 Other Motorcycle Year: 79
|
|
i have never done it but if you use the dimpled bars and check the wires i can't see any reason it wouldn't work. you would probably have to use a late model throttle cable
__________________
LIFE IS SHORT PRAY HARD!!!!!
CURE FOR INSOMNIA. QUIT COUNTING THE SHEEP AND TALK TO THE SHEPHERD.
always a work in progress!!!!!!!!!!!
Uploaded with ImageShack.us
|
23rd March 2012
|
|
Biker
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 6 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh Ironhead Sportster/Buell Year: 1975
Reputation: 10
|
|
thanks guys! this is actually my first H-D purchase, and first scoot ever...so two wheeled world is a completely new learning world for me.. iv been doing a lot of reading, talking, and learning over the past year and finally found a good base to start with. finally found a o.g. ironhead thats not in a box!
|
24th March 2012
|
|
Biker
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 6 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh Ironhead Sportster/Buell Year: 1975
Reputation: 10
|
|
no one knows if this'll work?
|
24th March 2012
|
 |
Senior Chief Harley Engineer 2nd Class
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: On a farm
Posts: 1,607 Sportster/Buell Model: XL77.2R Sportster/Buell Year: 2006
|
|
You will find a lot of help on this forum. Sometime the gurus are away riding and they can respond later (imagine you post a question and all the person interrested are at Sturgis for a week) For what i know about changing bar, switch and other things I can assure you everything is possible. It depend on your hability to do your own thing. The first good advice is to get a manual for your bike. The second, get a part catalog like the one from JP cycle and do the number/year matching. I even saw a IH modify to race against seadoo.
|
25th March 2012
|
|
Biker
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 6 Sportster/Buell Model: xlh Ironhead Sportster/Buell Year: 1975
Reputation: 10
|
|
Nevermind false alarm, I found a bang up deal on some factory switches/48" wire harness, which kills two birds with one stone.. I'll have plenty of wire to make new bars work, either a set of the breezers or 14" Burlys or Nash midgets
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Hybrid Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:59.
|
