Handle Bar Controls Shrinkwrap tubing?

What is the best material to use to replace the old plastic tubing that covers the wires coming from the handle bar controls left and right side. Shrink Tubing? Does anyone have any ideas or experience/recommendations? Thanks.

have you tried cleaning up the old ones or are they too far gone?ive got a friend that has 15-20 900-1000s mostly basket cases but his a serious resto nut i can try and chase him down to see if he has any nice wiring looms for the bars.

Thanks wireman. Engine Kill Switch control covering is cleanable and OK. However, not thinking, (a gotcha) I got the semi gloss black paint that I put on the controls on it. The turn signal switch is split in places and needs to be replaced. Since I'm doing a really clean restore, I need to replace both. I would be interested in your contacts who might have these where they can be cleaned to near new. Otherwise I was thinking of 1/2" flat black shrink tubing (shrinks to 1/4 - Which I think will work) Good to see you're doing ok!

i talked to my doctor this afternoon she got ct report read and said something about a twisted bloodvessel in my head she wants to wait a month and do ct again to see if its changed any,so till then its back to wrenching!:woohoo: my neighbor is hard to chase down but ill look over at his dads house for him,ive given him enough handle bar controls over the years ,i think he can give up a few parts!

I want to be wireman's friend's friend!

What a guy! Of course I'll pay for it....wireman is everyones friend, Now if I can only figure out which color the handlebar control words are supposed to be....:blink:

Skip, When I rebuild a bike, I strip off all the covering on all wiring harnesses. On the main harness, I wrap electrical tape. On the switch gear harnesses, I wrap tape then use spiral wiring loom. If you tape it or use fine wire ties every 4 inches or so, it stays neatly wrapped. It would be difficult to use shrink wrap due to getting the stuff on but it would look OK I guess.

Post edited by: KZ_Rage, at: 2006/05/16 12:04

allright here in front of me i have a very clean set of control wires with the cherry factory sheathing around them,now if i could just remember who wants them:whistle: :whistle: :whistle: maybe if i skip around somebody with a 76ltd will pop up!

L&R are white on this one turn is yellow.hi-lo are white lights-yellow horn yellow .

oh wait !what do we have here?throttle side wiring too damn i dont suppose i could find that extra cal fab swingarm laying around here,must be in a differant hiding place!:whistle:

Thanks for all the great info guys! wireman, I'd like to talk to you about all that stuff you got lying around! I'm not sure how you find your way around wading through all that stuff. From what I understand wiredgeorge has the same kind of issues. Thanks for the color help too guys. KZ_Rage that is really cool stuff on the links you sent me. I may have to order some just to play with it and see what it looks like. Thanks again.