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Old Aug 31, 2011 | 11:55 PM
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Does anybody have any home made or inexpensive mods for nightster headlight? Such as diff mounting? Or brakets? And pics
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Old Sep 1, 2011 | 02:26 AM
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Pretty much your only cheap mod is to take the hood off and flip it upside down, drill a hole in the triple tree, and mount it there. Otherwise you'll either need to make or buy a bracket.
 
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Hmm good idea maybe flip drill and a bottom braket. Any pics of this?
 
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I'm getting ready to move the brow visor to the underside of the top of the triple tree. I going to have to get a little creative with some spacers and different bolts. Thats in prep for using the speedo mount of the new 48's.
 
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Here is what I did, total cost $0.00
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...headlight.html
 
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Originally Posted by HOTLAP
Here is what I did, total cost $0.00
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...headlight.html
I'm not sure it's such a great idea to have the headlight upside down. There's no way that's throwing a legal beam pattern with the reflector inverted like that. Or am I just not seeing that you flipped the reflector inside the housing so the reflector is still right side up?
 
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Hotlap so u just made a bracket and drilled threw forks?robosmurf pls take pics want to see how comes out
 
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Yes it's easy to swivel the headlight in the housing so it is right side up, you just have to dremel the shroud a bit as it has a notch for the headlight bulb.
I did drill the lower tree and make a bracket to mount the headlight to.
 
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Streetfighter yer bike looks sick not sure light would look good there with my frisco bars but I could do same thing lower how did u get motor and covers same color???Hotlap do u have pics?
 
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