Mid '70s radio caddy install

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Mid '70s radio caddy install

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I just got a mid '70s radio caddy to use with my '73 FLH. It has a radio, amp gauge and oil pressure gauge. I am trying to figure out a way to install it on my bat wing fairing. Has anyone done this and what advice can you spare?

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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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No advice, just my experince.......

I put a shovelhead batwing faring on my 95 Road King many years ago, still on it and looks pretty good. I got the wild idea I needed a radio and found several styles of the old radio caddies, including the original style with speakers, gauges, etc. I worked quite a bit to get the thing to fit, found a good radio and speakers and the end result was a product that truely sucked by mid 2000's standards. Overall, it looked like crap, couldn't get much sound out of it and was always in the way. Its a novelty and not a very good one at that. I wish I'd had put my money into a different rat hole.

That being said on a 70's classic it will problaby look before but perform about the same.
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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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Probably not much help here but in the early to mid 70's my dad bought an aftermarket fairing and spent some time trying to figure out how to mount it to the 64 FL. It looked pretty cool on there but he was never a fan of the wiring changes/switching needed to operate the OEM front signals (and maybe the headlight) vs the signals encased in the fairing. I don't believe the inside of the fairing provided any upfront bracketing or compartmental options for a radio, etc. but he always figured something like that could be done......just not by him! I still have this crazy thing and sometimes I think about jacking around with it but it's still stored away collecting dust.
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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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How about some pictures so we all know what you are working with?
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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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Most are mounted on the Batwing upright supports with a couple of "L" brackets and generally with a rubber vibration damper in the mounting.
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RooDog wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 2:25 pm How about some pictures so we all know what you are working with?
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Not sure how to add pictures.
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RooDog wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 2:25 pm How about some pictures so we all know what you are working with?
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Not sure how to add pic, but you can see what I have at this link.

http://12shovelflh.centerblog.net/7-har ... dy-vintage
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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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1955fle wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 7:31 pm
RooDog wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 2:25 pm How about some pictures so we all know what you are working with?
....RooDog....
Not sure how to add pic, but you can see what I have at this link.

http://12shovelflh.centerblog.net/7-har ... dy-vintage
I don't think so.....

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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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RooDog wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 7:57 pm
1955fle wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 7:31 pm
RooDog wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 2:25 pm How about some pictures so we all know what you are working with?
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I don't think so.....

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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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Here are some pics.

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Re: Mid '70s radio caddy install

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The rubber isolators they use are very similar to oil tank mounts with a stud on each side.
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RUBONE wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 11:07 pm The rubber isolators they use are very similar to oil tank mounts with a stud on each side.
I have the with a metal piece with 1 mounting hole.

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