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JASILVA: Surf on up to the engine performance forum there is a thread with dozens of responses from people having failures of these guages. Mine also failed at 7 months, one month out of warranty. I contacted HD corporate about it and got jerked off, they said they'd pay for the guage but I had to have it dealer installed. Dealer claimed an hour and a half for install, that made it cheaper to buy the Kuryakyn flush mount set up. The Kury version is easier to read day or night and as a bonus you get a volt meter built into it.
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It stands to reason, if you can ever say the MO CO does anything by reasoning, that the '07 SERK's did have flush mounted fuel and filler caps with red LED's that failed regularly, by eliminating them on the '08 SERK's it would reduce warranty claims. I'm not certain which type of guage is cheaper to manufacture, sweep arm or LED's.
That being said, I changed out my standard '08 SERK guage and filler caps with the over the counter dealer items and they did have blue LED's. I would think though that if you had a '07 SERK and the unit failed, that they would have to replace it with the original red LED head unit; so there should be a separate '07 head unit part number for the red LED's. Maybe the guy that works at the HD dealership can tell us.
On fit though, the fuel guage fits nicely but the filler cap does not fit the contour of the tank. I'm not sure if the '07s fit any better, but on mine I can see on one of the edges the serations around the edge of the cap because it sticks up over the tank ring. This is in no means a big issue and no one other than me seems to mind or notice it.
As far as the replacement of the LED fuel guage once it's installed, there is very little labor to replace it. You take the wire end off the wiring harnes that extends down through the tank to under the tank and then simply push down on the center of the head unit and like the end of a ball point pen, it pops up and you pull it from the base. You thread the wires through the tube to the underside of the tank and push the head unit down until it snaps in place and release it. It pops up flush and you're good to go. Put the wire end back on the three wires and off you go. If you were to install a flush set into a standard non flush guage package, I'd say the 1-1/2 hour is probably what they would charge for. I've not done one of these before mine but I think my turnaround time was less than 1/2 hour.
I've got a guy out west that I'm going to be trading head units with at the end of riding season. He has red which I want and he likes the blue LED.
So far the blue LED's are very easy to read in very bright sunlight. I'm not sure but I think there are 7 or 8 LED's on mine. When I hit the last 2 LED's the low fuel light comes on located in the speedo head and the "miles remaining" figure shows about 45 miles. I was very low on fuel one day and I got down to the last LED and the miles remaining said 1 mile when I filled up. On the '08s you have 6 gallons to work with and when I filled my tank it only took 5.1 gallons. I've ridden 200 miles on a tank when my riding was mostly highways.
I really love this bike and compared to my old '76 FLH, it's like riding in a Lazy-Boy going down the road. So far with just over 2,100 miles on it the only annoying issue is the ticking noise that comes in at about 2,500 rpms and leaves at about 3,100 rpms. I think this is the noise they refer to as the sewing machine noise. Right now I still have the Syn-3 oil in it and will change to Mobil 1 at my next service, probably before I leave for Sturgis.
Sorry to get side tracked on the thread.
Later guys...
Dan
