| Author | Message | ||
     Jim_williams |
My XP still has the cop harness, which I assume everyone else has. Seems it'd be a real pain to fish it out front to back. Is this live at all? Can it be tapped either where it terminates under seat, or, where there are the random plugs in the front end, or, is it just dead laying there? | ||
| Ratbuell |
AFAIK, it's only "hot" from the battery / fuse panel connection, which I think is at the rear aux outlet under the seat, to the large "brain" connector where the underseat bag goes. If your rear aux outlet is working...your cop harness is dead where it sits. If you unplug your aux connector and plug in the police harness, you'll have hot pins at the brain connector. That's it. If you want to use the wires that go to the front...get a multimeter and tone 'em out from the brain connector to the front end. Double-up if you're going to run aux lights, though - they're light gauge wires designed for LED lights with next-to-no draw. If you have a shop manual for the bike, there should be a page dedicated to the cop harness. I think. I don't think they did a seperate supplemental book... | ||
| Jim_williams |
Thanks, Joe. Sounds like mine is dead. The brain is gone, and, the rear aux. works. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Yep, you're just carryin' copper at this point  You *can* backpull it all out; we did on our demo that we sold. If you want wires for aux lights or farkles, use the (small gauge) cop wires as 'pull strings' - tape your heavy gauge wire to the forward end, and when you backpull the cop wires, your new wires will follow their routing. | ||
| Jim_williams |
aha! It doesn't hang up anywhere hard to get to? I was thinking of doing just what you suggest when I take it apart to install the comfort kit shroud one of these days. I would like all that wiring gone, since it's just kinda there.. | ||
| Ratbuell |
I think (and I'll have to ask Jeremy, but he's off today) the hardest part is where it routes under the airbox and at the cable guide at the steering head, to the forks/instrument cluster. If you're gonna do the comfort kit install by the book (i.e. everything out but the tail section siderails), you'll be about 80% of the way there. Pull outer, inner, and lower airboxes and you should be able to pull the rest out easy enough. |
