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Road King to Roadglide conversion

55K views 48 replies 20 participants last post by  Tim jr 
#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Hi all, I want to do the conversion, but I want to make the inner fairing mount in a slightly different position than the stock. Can anybody give me measurements of a stock mount?
 
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#4 · (Edited by Moderator)
Also, check out Paul Yaffe and Bagger Nation. They might have some kits as well.

My suggestion would be to buy one of the adjustable mounts, remove your headlight and fuel tank off of your King and mock up what you want for height, angle, etc. and then fab a mount or have one fab'd for you with those dimensions and then sell or return the adjustable mount. That would give you a one piece unit that you could powder coat in the color you want (black, of course).

If you're going to leave the speedo on the tank and not change the tank dash, I would look into one of the inner fairings that has more speaker mounts and put a kick ass stereo in the inner fairing. You can fill the gauge holes with tweeters and put four big speakers facing you.

The cleanest design would use the hidden fairing supports made for that era. That way, you don't have to depend on the engine guard.

Good Luck. It is a large scale project best tackled in the winter in a warm shop.


Calgaryglide
 
#8 ·
Depending on which direction you go for paint, I always like a gloss black inner fairing, goes with every colour very well. Colour matched fairings can be a little "over the top" in my humble opinion, I've seen very few that I like.

I would definitely fill those gauge holes with tweeters instead of the temp and fuel gauges. The air temp gauge was really useless anyway.

A lot of folks put more speakers down on the inside of the fairing, removing the inner glove boxes. You should be able to fit a couple 6x9's in there. That way you can have more sound carrying back to you instead of trying to push sound forward at speed from lid speakers behind you.

Get yourself a little label maker and label every connection on your present bike as you take it apart, will save a lot of grief later on.

One thing that you may require is a non-Ultra overlay harness. This should be plug n play to get you the basic stereo/power/speaker wiring and then you would have to expand from there.

Good luck with the conversion.


Regards,


Calgaryglide
 
#14 ·
Looks pretty good... interested in what you plan to do for the electronics. Are you hoping to swap out the dash and throw new guages in with all the wiring or just put speakers in all the holes and run an aftermarket radio? I know there are differences between the gauge sizes from the older bikes to the rushmores. They are neither the same size nor are they compatible electronically.
 
#39 ·
You planning on having a swimming pool in your fairing ..... I'm pretty sure that bracket will hold one! I'm with you, better overbuilt than underbuilt. Looking good. Once you get it all fabbed up, installed, tested, and modified you could probably sell a few between here and the RK site. Or, better yet, make up a set of prints with a clear, easy to understand walk through of everything involved, with a list of needed materials and tools, and sell them. You've done the hard part, no reason not to try to generate a little income for ..... MORE MODS!
 
#17 ·
DId mine on my '17 Special. Not really bad, once I researched everything. I used FF inner, factory outer. Replaced my hand controls with lighted touring for radio switches. Biketronics unit for using thumb controls. Innovative wiring made me an adapter for the headlight. Hardest thing I had was not realizing that the RK still used 3 wire turn signals and had to do a little transition to accommodate the 4 wire on the RG and touring models. Blanks in the turn signal location and used Ciro3D turn signals next to headlight. Run 2 sets of DD Audio separates on Arc Audio 600.4. I kept stock headlight nacelle and had local guy trim sides to allow turn radius. Good luck with your project. Glad I am not the only crazy/stupid one out there.....:grin: Pic is one I found before doing mine. You can see the trimming on nacelle. More like what yours, in terms of bike style (pre-Rushmore). I still have not been able to figure out why I can't post pics more than once. Every time I try to attach a pic I have used before for another topic, attachment manager refuses to let me attach. Tells me I have used in a previous thread... NO SHit?? I never would have remembered.....:mad::mad::mad::mad:
 

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#27 ·
And there ya have it. I was looking at just leaving my Freewheeler dash alone and mounting speakers in the small gauge holes. Do you have radio controls in your switch housings? Did you run a wire harness from the RG to the fairing?
 
#30 ·
I was looking over this thread and you invited questions. I've completed my conversion from a roadking to a Streetglide using all Harley parts. If I am correct you stated that you were able to use the stock Harley hand controls for the radio? Any info you might share regarding this procedure would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
JM
 
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