Road King style headlight
Road King style headlight
I was cruisin to the ranch this past weekend and my left headlight (I have the roadking style headlights, one giant one in the middle, two on the outside with the turn signals under the two smaller headlights.) was facing in and my turn signal on that side was facing out. I got home and tried to see what held them in and I cannot find out how to tighten them... It is like they are connected, and you cannot turn the because of the cables. Is there a trick to tightening them back up?
Its super easy to do. I believe its a 9/16 socket -
go buy a cheap deep well socket
use a grinder to cut out a notch
(you will cut down the length of the socket in two places [about a 1/4" apart] and then make a cross cut towards the bottom of your vertical cuts.)
you should now have a section of the socket wall missing
use an Allen wrench and remove the two Allen screws holding the turn signal and passing lamp together (this is a pain because of the limited movement, so it takes a few minutes to do)
once the sections are separated, you can use your new fancy socket to tighten up your passing lamp - the wire connecting to the turn signal will stick out through the slot you cut in the sidewall of the socket allowing you to tighten the nut with the wire still attached.
the worst part of the whole project will be getting your lamps adjusted and turn signals all lined up and keeping them that way while you tighten the nut back up - an extra set of hands really helps on this one.
go buy a cheap deep well socket
use a grinder to cut out a notch
(you will cut down the length of the socket in two places [about a 1/4" apart] and then make a cross cut towards the bottom of your vertical cuts.)
you should now have a section of the socket wall missing
use an Allen wrench and remove the two Allen screws holding the turn signal and passing lamp together (this is a pain because of the limited movement, so it takes a few minutes to do)
once the sections are separated, you can use your new fancy socket to tighten up your passing lamp - the wire connecting to the turn signal will stick out through the slot you cut in the sidewall of the socket allowing you to tighten the nut with the wire still attached.
the worst part of the whole project will be getting your lamps adjusted and turn signals all lined up and keeping them that way while you tighten the nut back up - an extra set of hands really helps on this one.
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