Hot Grips

[yorkie_chris]

An elegant solution to it that doesn't stress any other bits of electrics, my ways cheaper though

I'm still fitting, it must be a record. Well I have the left grip on, its the throttle grip that a pain. So I cut the front lip off no problem the grip slides good fit.

But with the SV there is another which at the top of the handle bar where the control blocks are. So I cut that off sanded it down with wet and dry. I spent a load tiem wear it down but the grip still won't budge over the top to make snug fit like the clutch side one does.

So has any ones else done this and how much do you have to cut away? Any more sugestions guys?

I know that you wire right into the brake light on though the postibve wire, the only issue I have with that is spliting the cable to attach the postive feed into there, don't want to get it wrong. The other as Chris said is the feed in the fuse box, which seems reasonable to me.

[harvy]

Originally Posted by bluethunder

But with the SV there is another which at the top of the handle bar where the control blocks are. So I cut that off sanded it down with wet and dry. I spent a load tiem wear it down but the grip still won't budge over the top to make snug fit like the clutch side one does.

I got a file and filed it down- much quicker then sanding it...
I also trimmed the hotgrips down a little where the weights go, abuot 3 or 4 mm of rubber before the large ring around the grip. (ill get a photo of this if you dont get what i mean...)

As for wiring, if you look in your fuse box, there is a thick Orange wire going to what is the middle of three "holes". I connected my hotgrips to one of the two empty ones. These are connected though the ignition- only on when the bike is on. On the other hand if you are wiring to the lights you want the SIDE LIGHTS not the brake lights! Not sure how this would work with the rear lights as they are just a row of LED's which prob draw less then the hotgrips would...

[yorkie_chris]

Why wire to the side lights unless you're using a relay?

The sidelight switch designed for a few amps is not IMO beefy enough to run hot things.

Orange wire is a far better option

[harvy]

Well sidelights better then brake lights no? ie side lights come on when the bike does... brake lights only come on when you brake?

[yorkie_chris]

You could wire to the hot going into the brakelight switch

Yup so tomorrow I will be filing it down then or something like that! LoL I am bit dumb when it comes this kind of thing.

Yeah i will be wiring them up to the main fuse box at some point, when I can get home as I don't have soldering iron and my dad does, he is also alot better at soldering than I am!

Well the guys at infinity said wire it through the front brake light feed and it would fine from there, but I didn't to go messin around with that so I will stick to the igintion circuit as its a nice easy place to wire the grips in. They also cut of the connector and solder, the cables togther than wrap in electrical tape to stop water and crap getting it as it does destroy then eventually.

I have trimmed the ends of with a knife of the grips as well, so now the entire grips is flush. Well just need to sort out the filing then it will be done.

Cheers for the help may even take a picture of my handy work when it done!

[yorkie_chris]

I'm not a fan of electrical tape, it comes off when wet.

Did all my loom with either adhesive backed heatshrink or self amalgamating tape, the tape was expensive but worth it IMO as numerous soakings and all of the tape is still where it should be.
Unlike the one bit of the loom that I didn't replace, and suzukis tape had come off, shorted the main live to the rear coil -ve and had me pushing it home

hey Chris where did you get that tape from? I'll into it, thanks

[yorkie_chris]

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.eu/

Excellent service, the heatshrink tubing will work out much cheaper for you though and a local sparks or motor factors will probably have it.

Get the adhesive backed heatshrink if you do it that way, its ace, the tube shrinks and the glue seals it permanently, that stuff over a soldered joint looks sound to me.
The one thing that might put you off is you will have to cut the wire and solder it then, but its easy, honest.