Heated Grips - Honda OEM

[wiredgeorge_imp]

Just to add a bit to this... the instructions for the heated grips install send you to the Honda service manual. The manual covers the missing info in section 19. Basically, to get enough slack in the cables after adjusting the lower cable adjustment, you have to screw in the pull cable into the switch housing and then screw it back out. To do this, you have to open the headlight shell and unplug the brown 2 pin and 9 pin connectors that come from the right hand switchgear. Once they are pulled out, you can remove the lower cable from the switchgear and turn the pull cable (it is threaded) into the switchgear body.

Not having the heated grip instructions when I started to change grips (got them later), I didn't get to the lower cable adjuster from down under the ECU. I worked from the left side and took off the two larger hoses, four small vacuum hoses and two electronic connectors and pushed them out of the way giving me enough room to loosen the locknut and turn the adjuster downwards to give me max slack. I would NOT want to try and get that adjuster back in the slot it is fixed in by and upper and lower locknut using this method so when you retighten, pull the throttle cable towards you to seat in the slot with needle nose pliers as you tighten the top locknut after readjusting the adjuster. Honda did their best to make this bike a pain to work on I think. The manual has NOTHING much to say about cables. It is pretty useless as manuals go.