DR JAY, your instructions were right on the money and VERY much appreciated. I printed them off a month or so ago, but hadn't had the time to do the swap. I bought the bars before I went on vacation and used the sweltering hot 4th of July afternoon to install them (along with get-a-grip grips) after a morning ride out to get some BBQ ribs for dinner. It only took me a few hours, moving very slowly and deliberately, to do the install. I took a ride afterwards and the bike now fits me perfectly! Like you, I pulled them back alot.

By the way, I used 68 Shovelking's modification to your instructions (in post 56) to remove the handlebar clamp shroud without having to completely unscrew that small bolt, washer and nut in the nacelle, which would have been a bitch to reassemble. His way of loosening it and sliding it out worked great.

One modification of my own. I'm lazy, so I took a thin, flexible coat hanger (they come in different gauges, this was the thinnest--the kind they use for shirts) and straightened it, put a little hook in the end and used it to slowly pull the TBW wires and plugs through the new bars. It took about 5 seconds to get them through the bars.

Thanks again for posting this. Without your instructions and photos to illustrate, I probably just would have paid the dealer to do it. And they wanted $300 to install an $80 part.

 

I know this is an old thread, but I finally got around to taking pictures of the bike with the Heritage-style bars on and pulled an old photo for a before and after picture to show the difference in height and pullback between the stock bars and the Heritage-style.

Here are the stock bars:




Here are the Heritage-style:

 

dr. jay

like the previous guy before me - i know this is an older thread, but your instructions were spot on. I installed these tonight with my dad (took us 2 hours because we were having a great time, and stopped for dinner!)

anyway - thanks for your post. Here's a pic of mine installed...

 

Nice job sir!

 

I found the instructions to be very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to post this up. I love the new bars and my bike now feels perfect. Thanks again.

 

Great write-up, just what I needed!

 

Many thanks Dr. Jay for the step by step. I by no means consider myself a mechanic (actually I work on computer systems for a living) but after reading this thread I thought I'd give it a shot (I knew I put that computer out in my shop for a reason ). Picked up my bars and new grips today and dug into it after work. Only took 2 hrs and that was with me taking plenty of breaks and wiping down the bike afterward.

Here's the end results...my apologies for the quality but the camera on my phone sucks. I'll take better ones tomorrow when it's light out.

 

Thanks to this guide along with the service manual, I installed these this weekend without a hitch.

 

Yes thanks a bunch Dr Jay. I put the Heritage (56569-09) bars on this weekend on your instructions helped a ton.

 

I bought and installed the Heritage bars on my 2010 Road King today. The part # was 56902-08 and the complete job took about 2 hours. I did have to remove my Fairing but the rest of the instructions were right on.

Thank you