Headlight's shaking all over the place
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Headlight's shaking all over the place
Had my first night ride the other night and my damn headlight shakes pretty bad. When I rev the motor, hit a bump, etc. It's the lamp housing that is loose. I tightened all the exterior nuts and then I pulled the lens off to check inside and tightened those too. Still loose. Now my headlight's probably shining straight up in the air lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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RE: Headlight's shaking all over the place
ORIGINAL: BoneCrusher
Had my first night ride the other night and my damn headlight shakes pretty bad. When I rev the motor, hit a bump, etc. It's the lamp housing that is loose. I tightened all the exterior nuts and then I pulled the lens off to check inside and tightened those too. Still loose. Now my headlight's probably shining straight up in the air lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
BC
Had my first night ride the other night and my damn headlight shakes pretty bad. When I rev the motor, hit a bump, etc. It's the lamp housing that is loose. I tightened all the exterior nuts and then I pulled the lens off to check inside and tightened those too. Still loose. Now my headlight's probably shining straight up in the air lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Mine does it too and I believe that there is a real reason for it.
Because of the vibration they mounted the headlight in rubber to keep the vib's from breaking the headlight bulb filiments.
Its about the oly thing I can think of for them to do it the way they did, don't like it. but they didn't ask me first. So I guess we're stuck with it, unless you can figure out how to beat it.
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RE: Headlight's shaking all over the place
You are so right Citoriplus. When I pulled the lens all three of the nuts fastnening the housing to the bracket have huge rubber washers on them and I thought that may be the problem but I wasn't sure. WTF this is BS.
RE--I checked those too thanks for the reply though. The bolt on my lower tree is also myhorizontal adjustment bolt.
RE--I checked those too thanks for the reply though. The bolt on my lower tree is also myhorizontal adjustment bolt.
RE: Headlight's shaking all over the place
Just thought i would throw that out, alot of times the most overlooked item is the also the most obvious. I havn't noticed too much vibration in my headlight. I probably have 1-2 inches of pattern deflection at about 5 yards. It really doesn't bother me all that much, I may just be used to it though; I work graves and I ride to work 10 months of the year. One thing I did that helped cut down on the peripheral vision light shake is to use an extended headlight trim ring. That helped to direct the light better and cut down on all the excess spill over that would bother some people.
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RE: Headlight's shaking all over the place
only way to correct the prob is to remove the rubber studs and make it a solid mount. mine does the same drives me nutz! i plan to fix mine as soon as it warms up....
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RE: Headlight's shaking all over the place
only way to correct the prob is to remove the rubber studs and make it a solid mount.
I'd love to make it rigid. Just wondering if anyone knows if the longterm vibration effects without the rubber mounts would cause particular damage. Hmm... that's a pretty stupid question. The rubber was put there for a reason. Oh well.... [&o]
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RE: Headlight's shaking all over the place
check out the other hd models. they are solid mount. worse case is the bulb blows premature. i'll get R done this weekend. and post results...... i think i'll make the 2 front studs solid and the back one leave alone.
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check out the other hd models. they are solid mount. worse case is the bulb blows premature. i'll get R done this weekend. and post results...... i think i'll make the 2 front studs solid and the back one leave alone.
check out the other hd models. they are solid mount. worse case is the bulb blows premature. i'll get R done this weekend. and post results...... i think i'll make the 2 front studs solid and the back one leave alone.