4. Reassembly

It's all downhill from here. You've got the difficult part done, but we need to position the wires in a safe place and reassemble everything. As you can see in the picture on the left, I have replaced the tail lamps back into the harness and replaced the tail lens back onto the bike. If you zoom into the picture, you can see the ground wire leading to the right (exhaust) side of the bike and the pink bullet connectors on the left side of the tail lamp assembly. In the picture on the right, you can see the wires all the way down to where they go into the integrator unit.

 

Reassembly of the body work is the reverse of disassembly. Basically, start on the left side of the bike and work your way around. Be sure that none of your new wiring is rubbing against any of the bodywork.

 

 

The picture on the right is a rear view of the bike after the integrator has been installed. You can see the charcoal canister underneath the remainder of the mud flap, but the license plate will cover that up. You can see here why I chose to leave the amount of mud flap that I did. I used the two holes left after removing the rear reflector to mount the license plate.

Begin your license plate modification by knocking out the two studs which originally held the license plate mount to the mud flap. Discard the studs, they're no good to you now. Next, mark the middle of the license plate mount's top edge. Measure 3.5cm away from the center on each side and mark that spot. Finally, measure down about a centimeter and center punch that point. I believe I used a 5mm drill bit to make the holes, but you should check this against the holes left after knocking out the studs. I counter-sunk the holes so that the machine screws would lay nearly flush to the surface of the license plate mount. I happened to have metric screws of the same thread pitch in my garage, so I used those. If you have to buy the screws, take one of the Nylock nuts with you to test the thread pitch. I believe that the screws I used were M4 x 15mm. After taking another look at the picture to the left, I suppose it wasn't absolutely necessary to knock out the studs. I guess I just didn't want them in there.

So, there's the final product. I'm very happy with both the operation and appearance of the bike after the integrator installation. Everything functions perfectly and I doubt that anyone who was unfamiliar with the bike would even know that anything had been modified. Now, if I could just do something about those HUGE mirrors...

  

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