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Installing hand warmers (part1): I ran out of time, so they're not hooked up yet
1.)The kit I got is designed for a snow mobile and cost $25... I'm hoping they'll be hot enough ;D
2.)Remove grips... Maybe remove bar-ends to make this easier????
Let's try the drill:
Nope, those puppies are TIGHT... lets try good ol brute force?
That screw driver is too small, knurling the screws.. Let's try a bigger one:
That's a no go, these suckers are really on there!!! I'd need an impact wrench or impact screw driver... Screw it! Let's just slide them off...
OK, that no worky either... Wait a minute, I have some nice pressurized lithium chain lube? That's slides nicely, doesn't it? Stick in the screw driver to give the tube somewhere to spray into:
3.)Got 'em off, stuck the heating elements on. Got kinda wrapped up in "progress", forgot to take pictures.
4.) clean lithium coated (slippery) grips with Simple Green (degreaser), and alcohol (de-Simple Greener)
5.) Measure grips to make hole for wires (don't want the wires wearing where they contact the heating elements. My thinking: the grips don't move, why should the wires?):
6.) Make hole with dental scratchy tool thingy that's nice and pointy, and enlarge with drill bit:
7.) Used soapy water to slide the grips back on while fanagling the wires through the hole and making sure not to rip them out of the heating elements... The soapy water dries and makes grips SUPER sticky... No slippedy slidy on those NO MO!
8.) Test fit switch:
Where else would you put it?
NOTE: Little Miss Cherry doesn't like undergoing opperations:
9.)To be able to drill a hole and get the switch to go where it's supposed to, gotta remove the left fairing:
CASUALTY:
10.) Can't get in there to drill the pilot hole with the big drill because of the windshield, so DREMEL!!!:
Step it up, step it up:
and the big drill can fit from the bottom:
I then ran out of time, forgot to take more pictures, nor was I able to wire them up, so that will be part II when I get a chance....
TEASER: HOW TO adjust rear tail light, and the Cherry goes off-road...
1.)The kit I got is designed for a snow mobile and cost $25... I'm hoping they'll be hot enough ;D
2.)Remove grips... Maybe remove bar-ends to make this easier????
Let's try the drill:
Nope, those puppies are TIGHT... lets try good ol brute force?
That screw driver is too small, knurling the screws.. Let's try a bigger one:
That's a no go, these suckers are really on there!!! I'd need an impact wrench or impact screw driver... Screw it! Let's just slide them off...
OK, that no worky either... Wait a minute, I have some nice pressurized lithium chain lube? That's slides nicely, doesn't it? Stick in the screw driver to give the tube somewhere to spray into:
3.)Got 'em off, stuck the heating elements on. Got kinda wrapped up in "progress", forgot to take pictures.
4.) clean lithium coated (slippery) grips with Simple Green (degreaser), and alcohol (de-Simple Greener)
5.) Measure grips to make hole for wires (don't want the wires wearing where they contact the heating elements. My thinking: the grips don't move, why should the wires?):
6.) Make hole with dental scratchy tool thingy that's nice and pointy, and enlarge with drill bit:
7.) Used soapy water to slide the grips back on while fanagling the wires through the hole and making sure not to rip them out of the heating elements... The soapy water dries and makes grips SUPER sticky... No slippedy slidy on those NO MO!
8.) Test fit switch:
Where else would you put it?
NOTE: Little Miss Cherry doesn't like undergoing opperations:
9.)To be able to drill a hole and get the switch to go where it's supposed to, gotta remove the left fairing:
CASUALTY:
10.) Can't get in there to drill the pilot hole with the big drill because of the windshield, so DREMEL!!!:
Step it up, step it up:
and the big drill can fit from the bottom:
I then ran out of time, forgot to take more pictures, nor was I able to wire them up, so that will be part II when I get a chance....
TEASER: HOW TO adjust rear tail light, and the Cherry goes off-road...