Having ordered the four parts a while back, I finally got around to installing them today. Had some difficulty with the heated grip throttle tube and the rear cable... until I realized that the throttle tube was broken, a piece that retains the cable had gotten broken off at some point, so the cable would not stay in position.
Well, F**k. :-[ Since I spent the cool morning hours working on the wife's bike and lunch time doing a Rumbux install for a nice guy from AZ, the hot part of the day was reserved for working on my bike. Not bad, only 100F in the garage. (I have got to add A/C to the garage on the next house!)
Removing the good throttle tube from the non-heated grip was easy. Getting the broken throttle tube out of the heated grip was more challenging. You can't get an air nozzle in there easily and you don't want to stress the heated grip much, or risk damage to the element. Oh, and it's glued to the throttle tube pretty nicely too. In the end, I used a hack saw to cut the cable end off the broken throttle tube, then scored the inside of the tube until it was juuuust close to being thru, then used the needle nose pliers to break out the tube from the heated grip. After the first few small pieces, the rest came out in a couple of big chunks, leaving the inside of the heated grip in excellent condition.
Since I had paid attention to the orientation of the cable to the throttle tube, it was easy to just press the two together and again I had a nice throttle tube with a heated grip on it to install. Fussed with the wire guide and wire orientation a bit, (thanks Al-n2it), lubed it all up and put everything back together. With the cables routed, tied down & plugged in, the bike fired up and recognized the grips just fine. Turned them on high and they heated up nicely. ::013::
Stick a fork in me, I'm done for today.