Wow. That was not fun.

Fortunate for me Gary came in town to help me install the Pro-Oiler I bought from Belgium. The whole experience started on the wrong foot as Gary got a flat tire on Heather’s bike 60 miles outside of Houston as I was already another 50 miles on the OTHER side of Houston.

Long story short: Heather has a new rear TKC 80. Her bike now looks 83.41% cooler! Erm, I mean it’ll perform better offroad.

Anyway, onto the installation fun:
The description is not a pro-oiler

We tried tapping into the “Trip computer” lone wire that the chain gang people talked about with older bikes. For the record, it does not exist on a 2006 F650 GS. We tore apart the wiring nest up in the front of the bike and could not even find the properly colored wires with ANY connector on it. No success finding the “small, unused connector, with a single wire only”.

Then we tried tapping into the speedo sensor coming from the rear of the bike. We were unable to get a strong enough signal to register.

The final and successful attempt was not what we were hoping to do: Tap into a wire of the cable connecting to the ECU (Blue with yellow. I was really hesitant to do it but we had no problems isolating the wire and spliced it up… and it worked!! 47 was the correction factor, btw =]

Here's the splice

Gary and I eventually got everything working. All was happy until I started putting the bike back together. I decided to see if I could weld the starter relay to the bike. See this little dot here? Well, that is where a MAJOR arc was created which blew out my starter relay.

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