O.K. I relocated my ECM inside the battery cover on my Nightster tonight, so I would like to share what I figured out, so you don't have to deal with the head aches of trial and error yourselfs. I searched this forum up and down to come up with a plan on how I was going to do this. This is what worked for me. I went to a thread from eNightster from when he did the same thing.

First go to this thread http://xlforum.net/vbportal/forums/s...&highlight=ecm and look at the photo eNightster put on there, it is self explanatory by looking at the photo.

Once you have done this, is were the problem seems to come forth. How to get the battery cover door to shut. You will repeatadley get a gap on the top of the battery cover which sucks and noone wants. Heres the trick so you don't get that gap at the top.

1. Pull the battery cover completly off.

2. When you put it back on, attach the top first so it looks like it did when you got it.

3. Now, for the bottom of the battery cover. Zip tie the bottom of the battery cover from the slit in it, to the plastic mount that it usually attaches to. This will leave about a 1/2 gap on the bottom of the battery cover, but you will never notice it. Believe me, I am very **** about my bike. You can't tell its even there, unless someone is laying on there back looking under the battery cover, which would be strange anyways.

If you do it this way it shouldn't take more than 30 min. I hope I save someone a few hours of aggrevation.

 

That link didn't work for me but I would love to see pics.

 

yeah linkey no workey
Id like to see some photos... I kinda like slacksters relocation idea.

 

O.K. Here are the pictures of the ECM mounted to the battery and pictures of the top of the battery cover and the bottom of the battery cover were I rigged it with zip ties.

 

that's ghetto but there's not much else to do with it.

 

Whats ghetto? Have you seen the ways others do it? This is about as good as it gets.

 

Why did you need to move your ECM?

 

Putting a springer seat from Lick's cycles on it.

 

Not sure about your bike but mine seems to have a large hole in the fender where the ecm is.

I would like to relocate it and put on a spring solo seat but I don't know what I'd do about the gaping hole.