How to remove this cover??
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How to remove this cover??
One of my front turn signals is loose and I'm trying to adjust the screw that holds it in place, but my problem is that I found a piece like a cover of that screw and I don't know how to remove it.
Anyone knows how can I do that?? Actually I broke one of the two covers trying to remove it.
My bike is a 2012 Sportster 1200 Custom.
Here are some pics of that part
Thanks
Anyone knows how can I do that?? Actually I broke one of the two covers trying to remove it.
My bike is a 2012 Sportster 1200 Custom.
Here are some pics of that part
Thanks
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I'm just guessing, but I think if you take off the lower clutch handlebar clamp (or whatever the light is attached to), there will be an allen or torx head screw that goes into that light housing. That short piece of metal around the screw is just a spacer.
I have no idea what that cap-like thing you broke off is for, my bike has nothing even close to looking like that, it's an older model, 1991.
I know my lights up front are externally wired, so my mount on the forks was just a long screw, and the hole in the spacer piece to attach it to the fork pinch bolt. I could be totally wrong about this.
I have no idea what that cap-like thing you broke off is for, my bike has nothing even close to looking like that, it's an older model, 1991.
I know my lights up front are externally wired, so my mount on the forks was just a long screw, and the hole in the spacer piece to attach it to the fork pinch bolt. I could be totally wrong about this.
Last edited by John Harper; Oct 25, 2012 at 06:41 PM.
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Pretty small for that size bolt (or whatever it is). It almost looks like he broke off a tiny threaded screw that that cap was attached too, so maybe a small allen is possible. But what the heck is the function of the metal piece it's attached to? And why such a weird design?
I got no idea.
John
I got no idea.
John
Last edited by John Harper; Oct 25, 2012 at 06:50 PM.
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Pretty small for that size bolt (or whatever it is). It almost looks like he broke off a tiny threaded screw that that cap was attached too, so maybe a small allen is possible. But what the heck is the function of the metal piece it's attached to? And why such a weird design?
I got no idea.
John
I got no idea.
John
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If it is a cover or whatever I am not sure about that, but behind it should be a small Allen set screw and that holds the light in place. On the end of the shaft is a ball end that allows you to adjust the position of the light, the set screw tightens down on that ball. The shaft should simply screw into the light housing.