1997 Heritage Springer over time has melted the plug on the headlight, and damaged/melted the wire coating.

My question is Harley sells a plug kit, part number 68705-93A. This is the same OEM plug. I want to prevent this from happening agagin and was wondering if a car headlight plug is the same plug connection. Autozone sells a ceramic plug connector (that wont melt) and didnt know if a car plug would work or not on a HD light.

Thanks for any info in advance

Bob

 

A melted headlamp connector is often the result of the connector being loose. I have cured this by bending the male blades out a bit to make the fit a little more snug.

The `97 models use a standard automotive type connector (H4), easy to find.

 

Agreed here....I had one melt and it became brittle. Just fell apart.

 

Melted connector is usually caused by high resistance at the pins, fix the issue and it should not reoccur. In this case it may well be that the connector was unplugged so often that it loosened up the spade receptacle on the H4 connector causing an arc melting the outer connector, just replace it.