Fitting Oxford Hot Grips
Feb 11, 2018 16:12:05 GMT
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Post by charwood23 on Feb 11, 2018 16:12:05 GMT
Finally fitted my hotgrips over the last couple of days.
Thought I'd share my method in the hope it saves someone any ballache.
Firstly route the power cable to the front of the bike. Do not connect to the battery yet. Remove your RHS air scoop and the RHS tank plastic the scoops bolts to as if you are going to remove the tank.
Once the air box can be seen run your supply cable along the frame and out under the throttle cable clamps to hold it in place.
I've opted to hide all my connectors behind the RHS head lamp. There's loads of space behind there. It may work for the LHS but you've got quite a chunky DC socket that side. Run your supply cable following the existing cable routes and tuck all the connectors in behind the plastic cowling for the RHS lamp. You'll be able to remove this easy enough now you have the scoops off. There is a 10mm nut at the scoop end, a 4mm Allen bolt under the cables towards the front and then a cross head screw and one of those crap plastic pins on the cowling itself.
Now you want to mount the controller. For our bike, whatever side you want to mount the grips the bracket is the wrong way round and it will foul the switch gear. I flattened it in a vice and then bent it about 20° the other way. I sprayed it all up black and fitted it using the supplied spacers but got longer black bolts rather than the supplied silver ones. Runs the cable and connectors along the existing cable runs and feed it under and into the cowling where the supply feed is.
Now you're ready to fit the grips. Remove any bar ends and bar end mirrors. I took this opportunity to fit a new throttle tamer throttle grip so I didn't have to gaff removing the grip ( www.mandp.co.uk/40-4f-136-throttle-tamer-tube.html ). Having hot grips on other bikes I have just cut the grip off as these hot grips should be seen as a permanent fit. If you don't want to cut them you can remove them by sliding in narrow flat head screw to break the adhesive bond.
Clean up the throttle grip and lightly roughen with sand paper then ensure it's clean and grease free. Take the opportunity if you wish to reapply some grease too. Lithium soap based should he used. Don't grease the clutch side. Just lightly sand to clean and let the surface then clean.
Follow the hotgrips instructions for fitment. They are bonded in place with super glue and once you go to apply them your buggered if you've got the alignment wrong. The bulky bit of the grip needs to be out of the way of the levers when they are pulled it. As a rule of them you want the cable coming out the bottom of the bars at 90° for both sides. Whack them on as per the instructions and route the cable with the controller and up under the RHS cowling with everything else so far.
Do the same with LHS and route the cables down to where the rest if them are.
With all the cables make sure there is enough slack for full lock left and right and a nice loop under each grip so not to strain the cable at the grip entry.
Connect the hot grip cables all together and then connect at the battery. Connect +ve first. Test.
If all is good reassemble all your cowling and panels.
Job done.
Thought I'd share my method in the hope it saves someone any ballache.
Firstly route the power cable to the front of the bike. Do not connect to the battery yet. Remove your RHS air scoop and the RHS tank plastic the scoops bolts to as if you are going to remove the tank.
Once the air box can be seen run your supply cable along the frame and out under the throttle cable clamps to hold it in place.
I've opted to hide all my connectors behind the RHS head lamp. There's loads of space behind there. It may work for the LHS but you've got quite a chunky DC socket that side. Run your supply cable following the existing cable routes and tuck all the connectors in behind the plastic cowling for the RHS lamp. You'll be able to remove this easy enough now you have the scoops off. There is a 10mm nut at the scoop end, a 4mm Allen bolt under the cables towards the front and then a cross head screw and one of those crap plastic pins on the cowling itself.
Now you want to mount the controller. For our bike, whatever side you want to mount the grips the bracket is the wrong way round and it will foul the switch gear. I flattened it in a vice and then bent it about 20° the other way. I sprayed it all up black and fitted it using the supplied spacers but got longer black bolts rather than the supplied silver ones. Runs the cable and connectors along the existing cable runs and feed it under and into the cowling where the supply feed is.
Now you're ready to fit the grips. Remove any bar ends and bar end mirrors. I took this opportunity to fit a new throttle tamer throttle grip so I didn't have to gaff removing the grip ( www.mandp.co.uk/40-4f-136-throttle-tamer-tube.html ). Having hot grips on other bikes I have just cut the grip off as these hot grips should be seen as a permanent fit. If you don't want to cut them you can remove them by sliding in narrow flat head screw to break the adhesive bond.
Clean up the throttle grip and lightly roughen with sand paper then ensure it's clean and grease free. Take the opportunity if you wish to reapply some grease too. Lithium soap based should he used. Don't grease the clutch side. Just lightly sand to clean and let the surface then clean.
Follow the hotgrips instructions for fitment. They are bonded in place with super glue and once you go to apply them your buggered if you've got the alignment wrong. The bulky bit of the grip needs to be out of the way of the levers when they are pulled it. As a rule of them you want the cable coming out the bottom of the bars at 90° for both sides. Whack them on as per the instructions and route the cable with the controller and up under the RHS cowling with everything else so far.
Do the same with LHS and route the cables down to where the rest if them are.
With all the cables make sure there is enough slack for full lock left and right and a nice loop under each grip so not to strain the cable at the grip entry.
Connect the hot grip cables all together and then connect at the battery. Connect +ve first. Test.
If all is good reassemble all your cowling and panels.
Job done.