Taking the rails off should be able to be accomplished with a socket and wrench set (I believe they are 10mm, maybe 12?)... When the rails are gone, you'll already have holes in the fender where the replacement lights should be able to go in:


Small in this picture, but here I removed the rails and then put a set of mini lights in place to keep me legal. Wires are easy, 2 wires on these, 2 wires on the old one. You'll want to solder them together and then heat shink because of being under the fender and getting crap tossed up on them. You could do butt connectors and heatshrink if you don't want to get into soldering.... or if worse comes to worse, electrical tape... But I'd rather see you learn how to solder or something than short out a fuse from going at it with electrical tape only.

I picked up my lights, a set of 4, off eBay for under $20 shipped a few years ago.

What is the need to have the sissybar on? I added one to my bike (don't have pictures of it with that loaded to the net though) and my wife hated it...

I would assume it is going to depend on what rear fender you go with. For instance, the BCB bobber kit says their fender won't support a passenger. Although there is a mod that diamond jim posted (you'd have to search for it) where he lowered his stock fender and it made it look awesome! I think all he did was add spacers and longer bolts.

This is what diamond jim did to his stock seat... Took the cover off, trimmed it down, and then put the cover back on. Makes it look a lot nicer and he said it was super comfortable:



My wife complained that the sissybar back vibrated too much for her and was uncomfortable.

You could purchase a take-off S40 seat for yours and they bolt up (and then trim down), or you could probably do it to your stocker and would still be fine.

Any S40 with the one piece seat will work. You could check EBay too, I've seen some stockers there too.