Wiring Question

Archibald · 06-02-2010, 05:40 PM

Okay guys here is my question: I have a 08 EGUC: My friend has a 2010 and his tour pack is wired into the rear brake lights and turn signals. I checked with a Harley Stealership and they told me they have a unit to pug in for $479.00.

Have any of you wired in your rear brake and turn signals to your tour pack? If so, can you tell me how you did it?

I removed my tour pack liner and looked at the wires. I have a Black, Red and Blue wire, which lead to the rear running lights, which I would use as the brake lights. I'm thinking the black is ground, red power… I have no clue about the blue.

Also, I have installed the Kuryakyn bullet rear turn bar, which have LEDs. The upper tour pack have regular bulbs. So because there is regular and LED, I was thinking I would have to install a power regulator. But where would that fit into the wiring equation?

Any help would be appreciated.

sirbOOm · 06-07-2010, 11:49 AM

Archibald -

If you're going to cut and splice, might as well find out which one (red or blue) is the running light wire and which is the brake wire. Easy to do, just use process of elimination. Other case could be that the blue/red wire is just a switch wire that tells some little controller to brighten the light (from the same power source). Whatever the case, your manual should be able to tell you.

As far as splicing in, if you are splicing in LEDs and the wire leads to a regular bulb, there'll be enough resistance on the wire to negate the need for any sort of regulator. If it was just LEDs, you'd need one to trick the computer into thinking regular bulbs are there (so your lights don't flash too fast). Honestly, I'm not sure if your wires will handle the load of additional lights, but if they're LEDs, I bet they would. Test it out and be sure to use solder and heat shrink.

That's my advice. Work at your own risk.

By the way, $479?!?!?! For what?