Moving the cd changer was a........

[royalstar09]

royal pain in the you know what. BUT................one of the first thing I found that was a total inconvenience was loading the cd changer. Wife and I with owning the bar and doing our own music have tons of cd's and I simply like the sound of a good cd. So in all my wisdon I thought the changer would look really goos standing up in the truck.

4 hours later its done and definetly not bragging but I really think it looks good

I had an old cd changer laying in the shop that was junk, but as you know some people, namely me, keep everything cause you never know when you will need it. So with that being said the cord was quite long, and conveniently the plug had the same pin design. So I cut enough of it off so I had plenty to add and started in. NOW with that being said I DO NOT recommend anyone trying this unless you like to put yourself through hell like I do. They sell 13 pin extension cables, but for some reason my cable was broke already so I did not have anything to loose.

 

First worked on mounting. I used gutter guard for a mounting base for 2 reasons, its nice and sturdy, and I had it. First remove the piece in the truck where the little storage pouch is, its held with 8 push pins, then I removed the pouch from it leaving me with this. I used the material as a templete.

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This little storage pouch is just stitched on, utility knife cured that.

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Had to remove this "bump" from the OEM mounting bracket.

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Leaving me with my cut piece of gutter guard and bracket. A Little flat black touched things up.

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Now then these changers have to have a setting changed to go from laying down (horizontal) to standing up (vertical) so it had to come out of the rubber insulator. I had absolutly no choice but cut the rubber, but no worries it look great now. Here is the adjustment that slides from H to V on both sides of changer

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Mounted the bracket to the gutter guard through the piece I removed that pouch from.

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When I got done I wound up with this. The INSIDE 4 holes I replaced the push pins with 3/16" aluminum pop rivets for added stability.

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Connect a few wires. Some are shielded, some have to be isolated. This is why Id recommend buying one.

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But I have the shielding wrap. a good soldering pencil, and a ton of patience and wound up with this

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Now I have a nice empty side compartment that looks huge with the changer out of there. I put some RTV on the bolt that held the changer in place and threaded it back in just to tighten things up.

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Now I have the grommet with no wire in the side bag where the changer wire entered it, thats going to be where I install a power outlet since the hole is the perfect size, and the battery is really close.....

Edited February 16, 2011 by royalstar09

[royalstar09]

By the way just search clarion dc625 cd changer extension cable to find info on the proper extension cable.

[KarlS]

Looks real good.

[Freebird]

That's exactly how I had mine mounted back when I had the changer installed. I liked it much better there than the ones I saw in the saddlebags. I removed it long ago though and went with the MP3 player. Just much more convenient for me.

[kj5ix]

Looks great,,,

 

I see that you doped out the wiring, do you by chance have the date information also,,,

[royalstar09]

Looks great,,,

 

I see that you doped out the wiring, do you by chance have the date information also,,,

 

 

What would be the date information you are needing??

[royalstar09]

That's exactly how I had mine mounted back when I had the changer installed. I liked it much better there than the ones I saw in the saddlebags. I removed it long ago though and went with the MP3 player. Just much more convenient for me.

 

Yep that was one of the first things I remember thinking,,,,,thats a stupid spot for that changer Thats how my cable got tore up apparently from the origional owner, or dealership removing it for whatever reason and not using the relaease for the lock where the electrical plug goes in.

Probably if I didnt like the cd sounds wuality so much Id never had moved it, just eleminated it, but i do like a good cd and it gives me tons of hours of music at the ready.

[kj5ix]

What would be the date information you are needing??

That was a typo,,, I meant data info, an in what the pins were to and for,,,

[MikeWa]

I have mine mounted in the trunk as well. That is a clarion c-bus cable. They are available on e-bay. Prices range from 3.00 to 60.00 In mounting it in the trunk I found I needed to scoot it as far forward as possible to still squeeze two full face helmets in with it.

Mike

[rickardracing]

Looks good, nice job. But I prefer the Ram Mount for my MP3 player, run the cable down the handle bar and into the fairing right into the jack. I removed my outdated. absolutely useless cassette player and installed usefull guages. CD changer is a space waster and a mp3 player holds thousands of songs....more than a cd changer. But you did do a nice install.

[Freebird]

Yea, I just looked and I have 3,910 songs on my MP3 player. That is some complete CDs and parts of others. They come from a total of 961 different albums. Now I realize that the sound would not be as good as a CD to a person with a good musical ear but at 70 MPH on a motorcycle, it is close enough.

[royalstar09]

Yea, I just looked and I have 3,910 songs on my MP3 player. That is some complete CDs and parts of others. They come from a total of 961 different albums. Now I realize that the sound would not be as good as a CD to a person with a good musical ear but at 70 MPH on a motorcycle, it is close enough.

 

 

We looked at good mp3 players tonight. I am going to go ahead and install an mp3 on the bars as well. I may even decide after a short time I do not want the changer in the way at all.

[JerryT]

One of the first things I did was take the cd player out. Trunk space more important to me. Many of the gps systems have memory cards for music, so if you are thinking of a gps, this might be the time to look at them. I went with a zumo 665 because I wanted the xm with weather feature which is great on trips. If you get down to the kc area anytime, just holler.