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

 

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.

 

found this animated post on a different site. helped me. http://www.1130cc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96403

 

Thanks Ks Sporty that animated post gives you a better veiw of how to get those apart.
I going to try again latter tonite.

 

glad I could help, lots of useful info throughout here as well.need to learn to use it more then google myself lol.

 

Straiten out a paper clip and push it in from the wire side and you can pull it right out. Way easier than trying to releases the tang from the plug side.

 

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!

 

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.....

 

Deleted - sorry, read the OP wrong.

 

you can just unclip them like above but to be honest. 99% of the time i cut and solder them... it is 100X's faster and just as clean