Better late than never.
OK here are the steps to installing the heat pad grips.
1. Take off the two rubber grips. First take off the bar ends. If you have never done this before you need to unscrew the Allen headed bolt and then tap the head of the bolt to free the expanding clamp on the inside of the bar. Then proceed to take off the grips. I did this by sliding a thin long screwdriver under the rubber grip and then spraying a small amount of WD40 in a few places. It just slides off. You will need to give the grip a good clean before putting it back on. This only works on the left side. The right side I just peeled the grip back.
2. Because the left side heat pad sits on the metal bar it has a tendency to lose a lot of the heat in to the bar compared with the heat pad on the right side, which is placed on the plastic throttle tube. To stop this heat loss on the left I first slipped over the metal bar end a rubber heat shrink tube.
Once in place I heated up the tube and shrunk it to the bar. I only did one, I would recommend putting another heat shrink tube over the top of the first one (better insulation).
3. Peel the backing off the heat pad (self sticking pads) and place them over the rubber tubing. On the right side just place the pads directly on to the plastic throttle tube.
4. Once I had the pads on the left side I unscrewed and opened the plastic casing that has all the controls for the lights etc. I did this so that I could feed the two wires from the pads through to the other side. This is a much tidier way than having the wires going around the outside. IMage
5. For the right hand side I just used cable ties and followed the throttle cables.
6. Do not put the grips back on until everything has been tested and works.
7. You have 2 wires on each pad. One of the wires from each pad is earthed and the other goes to the toggle switch. (See diagram). I joined up the respective wires from each pad to each other so I ended up with one wire going to the switch and the other to earth. Before you join any of these wires up first put a heat shrink tube on so that you can protect the join. It looks neater as well.
8. For the earth wire I tapped in to one of the earth wires from the park lights on one side and for the power wire I tapped in to the power wire from the other park light.
9. To feed the wires in to the back of the light casing I made a small incision in the plastic wire covers that go around all the wires from the back of the lights. I then fed the wire through until I had enough to work with inside the light casing to attach to the respective points.
10. Once all that was done I mounted the toggle switch on the plastic backing above my binnacle - I have a fly screen. If you don’t have a fly screen then a bracket will have to be mounted somewhere.
11. Once all that is done - test it. It should only work if you have your key in the on position or in the park light position. Of course the toggle switch also needs to be in either low or high position.
12. If all works well then its time to put the grips back on. The right side is simple just put it on over the pad. Mine went on very easy. On the left side I used a small amount of contact adhesive on the inside of the rubber grip. It worked as a lubricant to slide the grip on and once set held it in place.
That’s it. I can thoroughly recommend doing it. It cost me 50 odd dollars and takes a couple of hours - bingo – HOT HANDS.
[ This message was edited by: Sparti on 2006-09-30 03:16 ]
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