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[DBHWT]

How high can you go without having to change any wiring or brake lines ?   Thnks

[ROADROD]

i think you can go up to a 12

[Big C.]

  10" is the max you can go with the OEM's.  If you wana do it right order the 12"s the factory spaghetti is plenty long enough to pull Threw and just change out your lines no cuttin and soldering!  Don't bother with the supper size kit either.  Get your own fittings, lines, shrink tubing and fluids. You'll be better off.  Check the finish of the bars right at the dealer or if you order direct the day they arrive for flaws.  Wish I did left them wrapped up till the end of last years winter project list and found two rings in the chrome!  Use 45 degree banjos at the controls to help the lines flow better with the lines of the bars.  The kit comes with straight banjos"which look dumb", and a full wiring kit which you don't need and get a set of gooden tight bushings even tho the people that make the bars don't recommend that you need them.  Thats the way to do it, and you'll be mint and save a couple hundred in parts and three or four in labor.  Thats a new set of cams and a good tune think about that.       

[DesertHOG]

  10" is the max you can go with the OEM's.  If you wana do it right order the 12"s the factory spaghetti is plenty long enough to pull Threw and just change out your lines no cuttin and soldering!  Don't bother with the supper size kit either.  Get your own fittings, lines, shrink tubing and fluids. You'll be better off.  Check the finish of the bars right at the dealer or if you order direct the day they arrive for flaws.  Wish I did left them wrapped up till the end of last years winter project list and found two rings in the chrome!  Use 45 degree banjos at the controls to help the lines flow better with the lines of the bars.  The kit comes with straight banjos"which look dumb", and a full wiring kit which you don't need and get a set of gooden tight bushings even tho the people that make the bars don't recommend that you need them.  Thats the way to do it, and you'll be mint and save a couple hundred in parts and three or four in labor.  Thats a new set of cams and a good tune think about that.       

Well, I am sure this is all good advice for those who don't mind putting in twice as much time as the dealer to save some money. I have been thinking about getting 12 or 13 inches apes or monkeys for my bike. I know it's going to take the dealer some time to figure all this out and probably a solid day of labor. That means it would probably take me two days solid at a minimum. That's 16 hours in the evenings and on weekends when I could be riding. Not my thing.

Also, please enlighten me with some of the terms you are using such as 45 degree banjos versus straight banjos. Huh? I have a friend who plays a banjo but didn't recognize it on my bike. Is that the real name for a part or some slang? Can you identify the part, perhaps both 45 and straight version.

A sincere thanks,
DesertHOG

[naitram]

technical term for the fittings on the end of hydraulic lines see image below for reference

a straight banjo will make the brake or clutch line come straight down from the reservoir a 45^o will have the line closer to the bars depending on how your run your lines a 90^o may also work for you

[Road_Glider]

My dealer put on my 10" and they made me purchase a plus 2" clutch cable as part of the deal.

They look cool though.