Flush Mount Fuel gauge and fuel cap

[Deuce Bigelow]

Originally Posted by 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.

if your "dealer" ever installed one before, he would know that there is a plug on the bottom of the LED fuel gauge (not the one on the harness under the fuel tank!), all they would need to do to replace the gauge is pop out the defective one (yes, it just pops out like the fuel cap!), unplug the defective gauge, plug in the new gauge and pop it back in..
should only take about 2 Minutes MAX!
but who am I to know more about that than a "dealer".......

[1bdBagr]

there IS a separate part # for the red SE part. A dealer told me the part has been "obsoleted". Not available anymore from the national HD parts depot. So it stands to reason (as stated before) that they (mo co) put the standard gauges on because they don't fail like the LED's do. My blue leds lasted a week or 1000 miles. The middle one went out.
Tim

[1bdBagr]

Originally Posted by Deuce Bigelow

if your "dealer" ever installed one before, he would know that there is a plug on the bottom of the LED fuel gauge (not the one on the harness under the fuel tank!), all they would need to do to replace the gauge is pop out the defective one (yes, it just pops out like the fuel cap!), unplug the defective gauge, plug in the new gauge and pop it back in..
should only take about 2 Minutes MAX!
but who am I to know more about that than a "dealer".......

Very true....i'd say you were being generous in saying 2 minutes. Probably more like 30 secs........
Tim

[BD 110]

[quote=Dan_Lockwood;1349047]
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.

Hi Dan

Had the same problem with the edge protruding a slight amount. I fixed it by popping the cap back up, tightening it down more with in the up position and then pushing the cap in. Fits flush now. FWIW

JW