Well, no surprise, it's been more involved than I planned and taking considerably longer. I figure I better go ahead an start posting my current progress. Otherwise, I won't be making any posts for a while followed by one epically long one at the end.
The major problem in getting this done is that every time I determine a point to fix up to, I trace to that point and things look as bad if not worse. Keep in mind, the bike did start and run prior to this adventure. While I know I shouldn't be surprised at anything I found, I am still a little... irritated.
If you've been following any of this, I'll start where I left off and bring you up to speed on where I am currently.
After removing the ape hangers, I was left with extended wires to the controls which needed to be shorted. I also new that most of the buttons and switches in the controls did not work.
Not surprising, here's what I found in the right side. The only button that worked here was the starter button.
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The left control looked slightly better although none of those switches worked.
The switches themselves are about $15 each (2 required) and the buttons $10 (need 4). Then there's having to solder wire to each contact....
Not to worry, Drag Specialties to the rescue once again! For about $50 you can get the front control wire harness (part number DS-305202). The beauty of this is that it uses factory color wire plus the switches and buttons are already soldered.
It was at this point I moved over to rebuilding the front suspension (covered in a separate post) while waiting for the above kit to arrive.