Man, I set out to do what I thought was gonna be a nice peaceful wrenching session, and boy was I wrong. I've been putting off replacing my squeeky belts for some time now, and decided yesterday was the day to do it. Well of course I'd been driving the cruiser all day so everything was hot as he!!. After a few mild burns on my forearms from trying to loosen the tensioner and bumping into the head, I decided perhaps I should install the slee headlight harness I'd also been putting off for quite sometime(I think I recieved it from Slee back in December 
).
The headlight harness was remarkably easy to install. The instructions were very clear, although there wasn't much to explain once you looked at it. Total time to install the headlight harness was about 30mins including running the harness under the core support and everything. I'd say about a
job.
Now that the motor had cooled down enough to work on it, I got to wrestle with the belts. Is it me, or did they make both tensioners nearly impossible to loosen and tighten?? The adjustment bolt is easy to access on the lower tensioner, but the pulley bolts and the upper tensioner bolts were a major PITA. After about 2.5 hours of wrestling I finally got the old belts off and the new ones on, but not without some cussing, 2 step #6's, lots of little cuts, and a coating of grease over both of my arms. It seemed that even with the tensioner's loose there wasn't enough slack in the belt to get them on and off w/o some serious wrestling. Maybe I missed something? I'd say changing the belts is a job, simply 'cause it's a PITA to get to the tensioner bolts and the job takes a while.
Alright, so at this point in the evening, I've finally gotten the belts finished, fire it up and everything runs smoothly. Go to turn the lights on to see what kind of difference the harness made and I'll be damned if one of my low-beam bulbs got damaged during the re-install :whoops: So this raises the question, what bulbs are "THE" bulbs to get. I thought about just getting whatever replacement bulbs they have at Advanced Auto, by why simply replace when you can upgrade
Now, time for an oil change....I wonder what surpises that has in store for me
Ary
).The headlight harness was remarkably easy to install. The instructions were very clear, although there wasn't much to explain once you looked at it. Total time to install the headlight harness was about 30mins including running the harness under the core support and everything. I'd say about a
job.Now that the motor had cooled down enough to work on it, I got to wrestle with the belts. Is it me, or did they make both tensioners nearly impossible to loosen and tighten?? The adjustment bolt is easy to access on the lower tensioner, but the pulley bolts and the upper tensioner bolts were a major PITA. After about 2.5 hours of wrestling I finally got the old belts off and the new ones on, but not without some cussing, 2 step #6's, lots of little cuts, and a coating of grease over both of my arms. It seemed that even with the tensioner's loose there wasn't enough slack in the belt to get them on and off w/o some serious wrestling. Maybe I missed something? I'd say changing the belts is a
job, simply 'cause it's a PITA to get to the tensioner bolts and the job takes a while.Alright, so at this point in the evening, I've finally gotten the belts finished, fire it up and everything runs smoothly. Go to turn the lights on to see what kind of difference the harness made and I'll be damned if one of my low-beam bulbs got damaged during the re-install :whoops: So this raises the question, what bulbs are "THE" bulbs to get. I thought about just getting whatever replacement bulbs they have at Advanced Auto, by why simply replace when you can upgrade
Now, time for an oil change....I wonder what surpises that has in store for me
Ary
