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I recently bought my first Harley and added a Tour Pak. Then I bought a wrap-around light kit and side lights. I was trying to find an adapter to plug into the tour pak to make the lights work. It seemed to me that the tour pak lights should also be turn signals and stop lights. But I couldn't find anything to hook it up.
Anyway, I gave up looking and decided to make it myself. All the time I'm thinking, "Why aren't these parts available?" Last Thursday, I finally found out why. I was telling a couple of the parts and tech guys what I was doing and was told, "You can't do that. It's not made to do that."
I said, "Too late. I guess I'm just too dumb to know it won't work. I'm almost done.
My Tour Pak lights are now run/stop/turn signals. Anyone else ever do this? I've had a few suggestions that I patent what I made.
I started the process at the dealer asking for what this. They wanted to sell me a plug to plug it into an accessory plug. I worked my butt off designing making this thing. I would have been happy to spend the 55 bucks.
You know I'm climbing on someone's desk tomorrow....
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