Wiring Tray and Cover : V-Twin Forum: Harley Davidson Forums

retrocool · 12-29-2008, 07:08 PM

With the help from a couple really cool forum members, I'm fabricating an air tank for the police solo seat I just purchased.
I'm putting it on a 2007 Roadking Classic. I've run into a couple snags so far though. I'm having my machinist make me a couple 2 inch dia air tanks, about 4-5 inches long (one will be a dummy for my paperwork), and I'm going to mount them to the fender strut between the rear fender and the saddle bags. I figured two, one on each side would look more balanced. They are going to be chromed and mounted with rubber grommets.
My latest problem with the seat is under the tank on my RKC the wires are run in a very large tray, with a cover. The black police cover will not fit with this tray in place.
Anyone else figure out a way around this? I thought of removing just part of the tray cover (from the tank back) so the wires under the tank would still be protected, then wrapping them with a 10 speed inner tube.
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks folks, have a safe new years.
2'cool

retrocool · 12-30-2008, 03:42 PM

I ordered a spare wire tray cover so I can so some surgery, and replace it if it don't work.
What else works?

Wicked Detailer · 12-31-2008, 01:25 AM

If you are going to do surgery, then using a seat pan from this guy will probably allow you to make more mods and be able to have more favorable results than working with the plastic pan from Harley, which is garbage. The pan from this guy is fibreglass, comes primed ready for paint. Contact him at 41willyscoupe@comcast.net If you are interested in a picture, email me your address and I'll send you one. I don't know how to post pictures in this area.

sprtf762 · 01-01-2009, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Wicked Detailer

If you are going to do surgery, then using a seat pan from this guy will probably allow you to make more mods and be able to have more favorable results than working with the plastic pan from Harley, which is garbage. The pan from this guy is fibreglass, comes primed ready for paint. Contact him at 41willyscoupe@comcast.net If you are interested in a picture, email me your address and I'll send you one. I don't know how to post pictures in this area.

Sounds like you have the wrong seat pan. An flhp is the same as the flhrc, so there shouldn't be any modification of the tray required. You probably have the cover for one of the earlier model bikes before they used the wire tray. I would either get the plastic pan for 2007, or get one of the fiberglass ones.

route66paul · 01-01-2009, 03:41 AM

The wires have to be routed to the outside of the brackets. The tabs on the tray will cover them. do not run the wires in the middle of the brackets.

retrocool · 01-01-2009, 01:25 PM

We took both the parts book(s) for an 03 and an 07 and cross checked them. The tray is the same for ALL models from 97 to 07. The 03 models didn't use the plastic tray for the wiring though. The tray was only used on the newer bikes, probably because of all the civilian wiring extras. The Police bikes don't appear to use the wiring tray, only civilians, as far as the parts books show.
I now have to figure out how to remove the pressure from the gas tank, to remove it, to get to the entire wire tray cover without breaking any fuel line fixtures. Anyone remove their tank lately?
This project just seems to go on and on.

route66paul · 01-01-2009, 01:32 PM

The tank shound have a schrader valve on it(to put air in it) just bleed the air out or even just crack the fittings to bleed the air off.

Police bikes actually have more wireing than civilian models, but it may be routed differently. it shouldn't be to hard to reroute these looms to go outside of the brackets.

retrocool · 01-02-2009, 02:46 PM

The tank I need to remove to gain access to the wiring harness would be the FUEL tank, not the air tank. Thanks though.