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From: Long Island, New York
I switched to a bottom mount headlight and higher bars on my 1991 Sportster about 5 years ago. All the wires had to go. I had to destroy the stock headlight bucket to free the wires. Then it took a lot of time and patience to relocate everything to under the peanut tank. I was doing a tank lift anyway, so the tunnel became my spot. It was a PITA, but when complete it looks much better, to me, and more importantly it was achievable.
But I had to go full caveman on that headlight bucket, not pretty at all.
But I had to go full caveman on that headlight bucket, not pretty at all.
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From: australia
I switched to a bottom mount headlight and higher bars on my 1991 Sportster about 5 years ago. All the wires had to go. I had to destroy the stock headlight bucket to free the wires. Then it took a lot of time and patience to relocate everything to under the peanut tank. I was doing a tank lift anyway, so the tunnel became my spot. It was a PITA, but when complete it looks much better, to me, and more importantly it was achievable.
But I had to go full caveman on that headlight bucket, not pretty at all.
But I had to go full caveman on that headlight bucket, not pretty at all.
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Joined: Mar 2016
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From: Eastern NC
My 83 FXR. Fond memories, I sounded like the father in "A Christmas Story" when he was working on the furnace. I replaced the halogen bulb in the HL to convert to LED, works great. Electronic flasher and 1157 LED bulbs for front turns, DLR are white and go amber when activated.....Lights up the road.
Removing the old wires from the OEM term block was nerve racking, about 12 wires. Even when unpinning them it took lots of force to remove the wires, each time holding my breath that nothing would break. Crimped new pins on the new wires and inserted them into the block.......everything worked 1st try, TG.
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