Rear Turn Signal Removal From Housing With Out Cutting Wires?.
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Rear Turn Signal Removal From Housing With Out Cutting Wires?.
Sending stuff out to be power coated. I have the turn signals off the bike. I want to take the socket out of the bullet shaped housing. Can this be done without cutting the wires. I tried pushing the wires out though the plastic connector plug using a jewelers screwdriver with no luck. Is cutting the wires the only way to get them apart. Thanks
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I was able to get the socket out of the front turn signals without cutting the wires and they have a grommet which the rears don't. You just have to get those pins out of the connector which is fairly simple. Before I got into my project, I wasn't sure how to remove the pins but there was a great writeup on here about how to remove them.
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Sending stuff out to be power coated. I have the turn signals off the bike. I want to take the socket out of the bullet shaped housing. Can this be done without cutting the wires. I tried pushing the wires out though the plastic connector plug using a jewelers screwdriver with no luck. Is cutting the wires the only way to get them apart. Thanks
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Thanks for the help guys, got em out. Off for powder. It was a bear to get em out being ham fisted and half blind as I am. Getting old sucks. I was just about ready to cut those ****** off!
Last edited by Chicago Ken; Dec 21, 2011 at 10:34 PM.
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Some additional info:
Tools I used to open the turn signal housing:
- coin to take off the lens
- my home made extraction tool
- 4 mm blade flat blade screw driver to feed the grommet into the housing
Step 1:
Take off the lens using a coin wrapped in a piece of paper tissue
Step 2:
Use the extraction tool to pull out the socket assembly
Step 3:
Take the screw driver to push the vulcanised grommet into the housing and feed the wires:
Step 4:
Pull out the socket assembly :
Step 5:
Use the screw driver to push in the (driving light) connector's retainer tab and pull out the connector (don't forget to lift up the tab when re-installing the connector into the assembly):
Step 6:
Feed the wires and pull out the turn signal contact seating:
Step 7:
Slide back the turn signal contact seating and notice how the contacts are crimped onto the wires:
When I mounted the aux lights to my Dyna
I had to feed and route the turn signal wiring inside the aux lights. I cut off the metal contacts, routed the wiring and re-soldered them onto the wires.....
Tools I used to open the turn signal housing:
- coin to take off the lens
- my home made extraction tool
- 4 mm blade flat blade screw driver to feed the grommet into the housing
Step 1:
Take off the lens using a coin wrapped in a piece of paper tissue
Step 2:
Use the extraction tool to pull out the socket assembly
Step 3:
Take the screw driver to push the vulcanised grommet into the housing and feed the wires:
Step 4:
Pull out the socket assembly :
Step 5:
Use the screw driver to push in the (driving light) connector's retainer tab and pull out the connector (don't forget to lift up the tab when re-installing the connector into the assembly):
Step 6:
Feed the wires and pull out the turn signal contact seating:
Step 7:
Slide back the turn signal contact seating and notice how the contacts are crimped onto the wires:
When I mounted the aux lights to my Dyna
I had to feed and route the turn signal wiring inside the aux lights. I cut off the metal contacts, routed the wiring and re-soldered them onto the wires.....
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