I'm new to the HD Forum so, first off, Hello!

Secondly, I'm new to HD! I just purchased a 2015 Road King in January!

I ditched the OEM two-up seat for a Danny Grey solo seat (the Butt-Crack model). I also added the HD chopped tour pack with the back rest pad and a one-up mounting rack. My intention was to use the tour pack pad as my back rest. However, when all was installed by Harley service, I found that in order to make contact with the back rest pad, I had to lean so far back that my hands were 4-6" from the grips. I'm not vertically challenged standing 5'11" with a 34-35" sleeve length. The mechanic at Harley said that the tour pack was already mounted as far forward on the rack as possible.
Has anyone else found themselves in the same predicament and, if so, what, if anything, was done to rectify the problem?

Sincerely,
Frustrated by an expensive experiment gone awry.

 

Welcome to HDForums!

 

Something is wrong. I have an 09 SG with C&C solo seat and removable backrest. (I had the D. Grey buttcrack.) I also have the 2 point quick release system that I use to mount a chopped TP or a rack. The TP has the smallest pad (~10" x 4"). To install the TP I have to remove the C&C backrest. My TP pad is perfectly positioned for solo. Definitely not too far back. Actually, the TP backrest is better than the seat backrest because its higher and a bit further back.

 

I had the HD 4-Point Docking Hardware Kit installed by HD service. It's on the two forward most points of the docking kit that the HD Detachables Solo Tour-Pak Mounting Rack attaches. It's with this set up that I encountered my above described fitment difficulty.

 

To get my King TPak where it would support my back on my 09 FLHP stock police solo seat I modified the Kury T Pak relocator to allow the unit to move forward. I detailed that here on RPB.com

 

I went to the Kuryakyn website but could find nothing in the way of T-Pak Relocators. Do you have a part number? Also, I clicked on your RPB.com hyperlink but, not being a member, I cannot view your details...

 

Sorry about that... luckily it has the ability to edit a post so I grabbed the copy:

This was a project I got done over the winter holiday and finally got around to posting. When touring I have my T Pak on the 09 version of the HD solo rack and I am using the stock air-ride seat and bars. With this setup the T Pak was not close enough support my back so I searched for something that could bring it closer to me and couldn't find anything. I spoke with George ANderson and his unit only takes the T Pak backwards, not forwards. I ended up getting a Kuryakyn Quick-Adjust-Tour-Pak-Relocator http://www.kuryakyn.com/products/390...-pak-relocator on Ebay for significantly less than SRP. THis unit provides 1 inch forward and 3 inches backward adjust-ability. I knew that this wasn't going to be enough forward adjustment so I looked at the install sheet http://www.kuryakyn.com/documents/in...-22HD-0610.pdf and figured that with a few modifications, this would get the T Pak where I needed it.

THis is a shot looking down on the T Pak relocator mounted on the solo rack:


#1 are the kit's mounting holes for the 09 style rack. I ended up drilling 4 new holes that allowed the kit to sit farther forward on the solo rack; these are shown as #2.

#3 is where the kit's rectangular stop block is mounted so that the T Pak can't slide out of the rails. I took the black steel plate that was on the stock radio rack and fabricated an extension for the kit that would support the T Pak in the position I wanted it. #4 is where the stop block now mounts on the extension.

The holes below #5 are where the kit originally had its aluminum locking blocks mounted. I drilled a new set of holes that allowed these locking blocks to move to the very front of the rails so that when the cam-locks are engaged, they are biting on a large portion of the blocks.

THis is the extension that I fabricated out of the steel plate that was on top of the radio box:

This gets sandwiched between the top of the solo rack and bottom of the kit towards the front of the bike. I have a set of washers in the back mounting holes to keep everything level.

This is the bottom of the contraption:


From the side:


From the front with the T Pak mounted:

THe chrome thing is the stop block that I mentioned.

And mounted on the bike:

The aluminum inner rails extend out of the chrome chrome rails allowing the T Pak to get really forward.

Another shot showing how far forward the T Pak can go:

Bottom of the T Pak is touching the back of the seat in this photo however I don't ride with it that far forward. I think the inner rails extend out about 1.5 inches.

So this got the T Pak where I wanted it but what became immediately evident was that the shape of the bottom of the box was not supporting my lower back. THe box cants away from my lower back so I needed to get some support and ended up with a sissy bar pad from one of the smaller HD bikes. It is attached with that stick on velcro stuff:

This shot also gives a good look at the rails that are attached to the bottom of the T Pak.





This has me 98 percent of the way there. After I get some miles on this setup I may need to cant the bottom of the pad a bit more towards my back and will try this with a few pieces of the velro.

One side benefit to this setup is that no spacers or risers are needed as the kit is just over an inch high which allows my saddle bag lids enough clearance to open.


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After riding with the T-Pak on the solo rack I quickly became annoyed with the armrests on the King style backrest when I was leaning the bike. One of my projects this winter was to replace the King backrest with the smaller Chopped backrest. This was quite a bit of work as a useful template to drill the holes for the Chopped pad doesn't exist. Here is what I went through to get this installed:
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/touri...-tour-pak.html

Here are some photos with the new pad installed:






I took the bike for a nice ride last weekend and I love the new backrest. Had I to purchase the T-Pak again, I would have had the King T-Pak lid drilled for the Chopped pad.

 

So, I had my HD one up tour pak rack routed so that the pak would slide forward about 1/4" closer to me. That didn't help as the pak sits about 4" too far back to be used as my back rest.

I recently ran into a guy with an '07 RK with a one up tour pak. This guy is several inches shorter than I however, without any self-modifications to his OEM rack, his back fit tightly against his pak back rest! What did HD change between '07 and '15 RKs that will not allow my 6' frame to use my one up tour pak as my back rest??

Signed,
Frustrated Over An Expensive Failed Experiment