Well, it's taking the fender longer to get here than I hoped. Supposedly it shipped yesterday, so maybe I'll have it by the end of the week. I got itchy to do something on the bike, so I went out to the garage and started poking around. Although the seat should cover the electrics pretty well, I started wondering if I could relocate the fuse junction box and IC ignitor in order to have a completely clean area behind the back seat support. After a little looking around I thought it might be possible to move them behind the right side cover. I posted a question on the mechanics page asking if there was any reason I shouldn't relocate to that spot and didn't get any responses telling me not to. I wasn't sure if it would be worth the effort, but since I didn't have a fender to mess with, I decided to unwrap the wiring harness and see how things looked with the wires exposed. Once I got the tape off, I found that a lot of the wires could simply be re-routed while some would have to be spliced and lengthened. What the heck, I figured, even if it's a pointless project, at least I'll be working on the bike. So, I started in. It's been an interesting little project so far. At this point, I've got most of the wires re-routed into the side cover area. I need to move 4 or 5 more wires, then decide how I want to mount the boxes. Unfortunately my camera was misplaced, so I didn't get any before pictures or pictures of the first part of the project. I found the camera today, so I'll be able to document the end of the job. Before I wrap it up, I'll get some pictures of the re-routing and splicing process, and also what the end result looks like. If nothing else, I've learned some stuff about motorcycle wiring and killed some time, so I wasn't going crazy sitting around wondering when my fender was going to show up.
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