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[roady]

Where is the best place to hook the ground and power leads up on an 09 SERG ? I got it installed in the fairing and I am going to install the sending unit in the pan from recommendations from here.

Thanks

[Twolanerider]

Where is the best place to hook the ground and power leads up on an 09 SERG ? I got it installed in the fairing and I am going to install the sending unit in the pan from recommendations from here.

Thanks

Use power and ground for the original gauge.  The socket is already there so no need to string new.  Simply make short pigtail leads with flat spade terminals on one end to plug in to the stock socket.  Eyelets on the other end to attach to the new gauge.

Attach the pigtails to the new gauge before installation in the fairing.  Then plug them in to the OE socket.  No new lines to run that way and still fused in the stock location (so nothing new to remember later).

[planenut]

what is the pan install

when i did this on my street glide it went to the adapter,now with the oil cooler its differant,looks like you have to cut one of the oil hoses to the addapter

jon

[Twolanerider]

what is the pan install

when i did this on my street glide it went to the adapter,now with the oil cooler its differant,looks like you have to cut one of the oil hoses to the addapter

jon

There's a fitting in the front of the oil pan.  Just centerline of the drain plug you use for oil change purposes.  Unscrew that "other" fitting.  Use a 3/8" to 1/8" npt brass reducer and screw the sending unit in there.

Route the yellow and black wires (signal and ground) up the side, take the ground to the battery or some other convenient spot in route and continue the other under the tank and on to the new gauge.

[planenut]

No $hit,just looked thank you,bet that the gauge temp is most likly more accurate there,

were do you get the adapter from?does it read better at that location.Wonder what that plug is for anyway


thanks
   jon

[Twolanerider]

No $hit,just looked thank you,bet that the gauge temp is most likly more accurate there,

were do you get the adapter from?does it read better at that location.Wonder what that plug is for anyway


thanks
   jon

Accurate?  Well, relative to its location.  Temp will vary of course in different places.  Especially before and after the cooler.  But it'll be consistent.  And that's all you ever want from an indicator anyway.

Fitting will come from any hardware store or home center.  Probably most auto parts stores too.  Nothing special or unique there.  The whole in the pan is 3/8" pipe thread.  The sending unit is 1/8" pipe.  It's just a reducer from one to the other.  Couple of bucks or so.

[porthole]

Wonder what that plug is for anyway

For the oil temp gauge that should have been standard on $25-35k motorcycles

[hogasm]

Would agree with this for the old model, I had it blow out and spew oil on my 2006, but I have no problems with the new one that includes level installed on my 2008.

/Bill

Only because you don't have many miles on it yet Bill

[WFP]

Only because you don't have many miles on it yet Bill

Maybe, but this one screws into the 110s...more secure

[miker]

Yup my 07 oil dipschtick went right in the 09, the display upside down however so I will have to take it apart ever so easily and move it.  But it can't be seen on the 09 with the cheesy heat gaurds on, que cers, cera..

If I remember to give a rats azz about it that is... 

[clegg]

     This response may be way behind the power-curve, but I just got my oil temp guage kit in. I am gonna go with the factory MoCo directions, which tell me to install it in the oil pan with the reducer included in the kit....

[hd-dude]

     This response may be way behind the power-curve, but I just got my oil temp guage kit in. I am gonna go with the factory MoCo directions, which tell me to install it in the oil pan with the reducer included in the kit....

As of about 6 months ago the instructions still had the sender going into the oil line. Now they have been changed and they even includde the reducer in the kit. Did one a few weeks back that had the revised instructions. No new part number or letter revision on the kit thought

[9 1/2 Beers]

Jim, would you happen to have a copy of the new directions?, My wires are still connected up front and I've been meaning to change it. I've seen threads on this but I was just wondering what the new directions look like.

thx Jim

Marty

[WaSEEG]

Am I the only one who got a fairing mount oil temp gauge that doesn't work.  I bought mine a year or so before I got around to installing it last spring.  I chose to use the reducer and mount the sending unit directly to the pan.  It worked fine for about a 100 miles of a 7000 mile trip.  When I returned home I ordered another sending unit as it seemed the most likely point of failure, installed it and it still doesn't work.  I had Jim (h-d dude)  check out the install during our trip when he had the fairing off to install the traxxion kit and he approved the wiring, etc.  I'm about to order another gauge but I'm wondering about the failure rate.  Thanks

[clegg]

I have done a ton of research on these kits, as I was planning on buying one, and this is the first I have really heard of a failure. LED units yes, but if these are failing I have encountered no talk about it on this or several other Harley forums.