Last weekend Gregg and Morgan came by and we embarked on the scary adventure of messing with the BMW electrical system. I had ordered a Centech AP-1 fuse box but it seems to be MIA. So, dropped by the local BMW dealership and picked up a Touratech auxilery fuse box. I was a bit doubtful of it, but it seems to have worked out ok.

First we had to figure out how to remove the gastank. It was actually easier than expected. Remove one bolt on the ride side, lift the gas tank off. Now here’s where it got tricky. There are two fuel line and two vacuum lines. While I was loosening the first fuel line I apparently lost my mind cause I pulled the hose off, and aimed it right at my face and shot gas right into my left eye and up my nose. Here’s the funny part though, first thing that popped into my head was “Ewen McGreggor is a wuss!” For those of you who don’t get that, in an awesome BBC Series Long way Round Ewen gets gas in his eyes TWICE! And it was a big todo. The gas in the eye didn’t bother me that much, I finished pulling hoses and rinsed my face off. The gas up the nose gave me a splitting headache but that was easily cured.

After getting the gas tank off we proceeded to setup the wiring harness. That was pretty straight forward. From this auxilery fuse box we powered the Autocom and Zumo GPS. I’ll be following up this weekend with wiring in the power for my heated jacket liner. Checked all the NEW stuff out and everything seemed to be good. Key word there is NEW. The next day I discovered that I had somehow disabled my PIAA lights. So, I’ll have to dig into that this weekend.

Rode up to Kevins and got my autocom tuned in. I’ve got music and nav audio now. The new seat is awesome!