It's Alive

Bike is back on the ground.  All I need to do is clean and tighten it up.  Might even have to pull the no front brake chopper fake just to see.  Hopefully gonna ride some in the next couple days and then on to a few more rabitts out of the bag and she'll be done for a little while.

Wiring Almost Complete

There is only 9 wires running the length of that backbone right now and when it's all said and done there will be probably only be 4 there, and the other 5 will stop around the battery box. 

I think after I get all the remaining wiring heat shrunk and tidy'd up, I'm going to be really happy I did this.  Wiring a 1200 Sportster at this point doesn't seem as difficult to do as once thought.  My biggest suggestion would be stare at the diagram for a while until you can pretty much remember what color wires go where without having to look at it. 

My wife made me go inside at 1 a.m. again last night because I had to be at work again at 8 a.m. on a Saturday, no less.  (These 6 day weeks are getting old, but there almost over.)  At some point after lunch today I will know if I got everything in perfect order and the old gal will come rumblin' back to life.

Another suggestion would be to find a good diagram.  This one was in the o.k. range.

Getting Closer to having the XL 1200 wired

Finally started getting everything sorted out.  I have all the crap I need under the clip.

All the crap I didn't need I draped on the other side of the bike.  I didn't take any pictures of the where I ended last night, but I finally did get around to cleaning up some of the mess of what I actually need to make it go and shine light front and rear, and started heat shrinking.  

I've got my diagram clipped to the side of the fender strut in the back to make sure I don't get my wires crossed.