Installing Garage Door Opener

Finally Ridin' · 03-09-2008, 07:36 PM

Here's the garage door opener post I said I'd get to. On the family-man scale it's about an hour to hour and a half job. For the single man (or lady) it should take about 20 minutes without any interruptions. Mind you that I am using the battery power from the actual garage door opener and I am not tapping into the bike power at all. After all, how often does that battery go bad. I've had the same battery in this one for over three years now.

Ingredients:
Momentary Switch - $2.50 at Radio Shack
22 AWG wire (color doesn't matter b/c there is no polarity)
Wire connectors - $.99 at Radio Shack
Zip tie
Heat Shrink tubing

Tools needed:
-Phillip Screwdriver
-10mm socket and ratchet
-hex key for console (forgot size, but standard for fairings)
-wire cutters
-crimpers
-soldering iron
-drill with 1/4" drill bit
-Xacto knife
-Heat gun

Step 1. Remove mirrors, windscreen, and right console panel.

Here is my garage door opener. This can be done with any type.

Step 2. Take opener apart. This will depend on what type of opener you have, but most have one screw in the back behind the clip.

Step 3. Next find the switch that opens the door and find the leads on the reverse side. From here solder two wires. One on each side of switch. Notice that there are four leads. Make sure that you are not soldering the same side of the switch. To test touch the two wires together and see if the door opens/closes.

Step 4. Put back together, install battery, and route wires through an opening or you can drill a hole on the side. Mine had an existing hole.

Step 5. Route the wires through the bike. I routed mine with the headlight assy wires.

Step 6. Pull through the other side and tuck behind headlight assy wires so that you don't have wires hanging out everywhere.

Step 7. Crimp connectors on garage door wires.

Step 8. Drill 1/4" hole in the side of right panel console. This can be wherever you want it. I wanted it on the side so it wouldn't be conspicuous. Use an Xacto knife to get the right size and insert switch.

Step 9. Solder wire to each lead on switch and put heat shrink tubing on. Heat with heat gun.

Step 10. Crimp connectors to the Switch wires and connect them to garage door opener connectors.

Step 11. Clip the garage door opener to headlight assy harness and then zip tie.

Finished product

dzuyd · 03-09-2008, 07:43 PM

that looks friggin clean..

good write up man

wildcatfan · 03-09-2008, 09:13 PM

wow clean install, for sure doing this next time i work on my bike!

ultrar6 · 03-09-2008, 09:18 PM

Damn Im still suprised you are a F/A officer. you would be great in an electronics field Capt.

daveyr6poo · 03-09-2008, 10:20 PM

nice! i want to do that this year. supper clean.

Sherman · 03-10-2008, 07:25 AM

Great write up man.

I did the same thing awhile back on my '99, but I installed the opener under my seat and installed the push button under the side cover.

ckellyusa · 03-10-2008, 09:00 AM

nice job. you get rep!

11secFOX · 03-10-2008, 09:20 AM

Damn this is sweet!!!!!

Now I have to do it for sure. I would have never thought of this. I absolutley hate riding with my clicker in my jeans pocket and then having to dig and hunt for it when I pull up to my garage.

Dank Ink · 03-10-2008, 12:06 PM

Great write up for sure, but if any of you would rather pay a bit extra for a easier/quicker install with no cutting or drilling on your bike, check out www.f2ptechnologies.com.
I had this on my 07 and will be putting it on my 08 here soon, so maybe I'll take pics as I go along and make a how-to.

Good job to the OP. There's a few different ways to go about doing this, so I'm just mentioning one of the alternatives.

Carry on...

aliphian · 03-10-2008, 12:18 PM

Awesome idea man!