2am. That’s when I went to bed Wednesday night / Thursday morning. I had been a man on a mission, with one goal in mind: get all the bike upgrades installed. I bought grip heaters and the auxiliary fuse block after last week’s retarded cold snap, and then bought the aux 12v port after Kelly got me my birthday present, a Garmin GPS with MP3 capability! Here’s the list, with associated pictures:
-Heated grips, made by Symtek, courtesy of Murphskits.com. I followed the install path taken by one of the other guys on the Concours forum in that I used the open ‘pod’ on the left side of the dashboard to mount the 2 position switch. looks almost like it came there stock!
Right side:
Right side (WOT):
Left Side:
Switch mounted in dash:
Closeup of switch:
This also gave me a chance to re-route some of the wiring under the left side of the fairing and re-situate the FRS radio hooked to the Autocom:
-Auxiliary fuse block, FZ-1 from Fuzeblocks.com. Ran the main power wire with an inline fuse from the battery, and ran the ground cable back to the main ground connection on the frame (vs the rear subframe). I can access the fuse with just the battery cover removed, so I don’t have to mess with any other fairing pieces:
I installed the box using the toolkit box under the seat as a mount plate. The toolkit now lives in the top-box.
It has dual circuits, controlled by a relay which is built in, so you just install the fuses either on the right two pegs for switched power, or on the left two for constant power. I ran the main power and the aux 12v power up the right side of the bike under the tank, and the heated grips and spare line up under the left side of the tank.
While I was under there, I made sure to better secure the extension connector and extension for the rear headset line running to the back of the bike:
-Auxiliary 12v plug in the glovebox ($6.99 at Radio Shack!). I had to use the heat gun to melt the mount plate a bit to get it to follow the contour of the glovebox floor, and also trim some off the top so it would clear the top of the glovebox, but it fits pretty well:
With the glovebox top installed, it almost looks like it belongs there as stock equipment.
-Garmin 750 (Birthday farkles!). I ran the power cable up from the aux 12v plug in the glovebox and also re-routed the audio cable already plugged into the Autocom along the clutch line, so now I’ve got power and sound, and can have music and directions simultaneously!
All complete, I buttoned everything back up and got the cockpit all re-situated:
Not too shabby for about 8 hours worth of work!
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