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#208257 JosephEHabermann (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 17 Driving Lamps 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago   Just wondering. I have "stock" driving lamps that are a major pain to adjust; I just live with them pointing more or less near the road. The problem is that the adjusting bolts are inside the housing, requiring the lamps to be removed for adjustment and then replaced to see if they are anywhere near correct, very frustrating. Has anyone come up with an "easy" way to do this?   Logged     If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space.   The administrator has disabled public write access. #208299 Clifford (User) Platinum Boarder Posts: 1168 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago   The bike has to be verticle to do this. Remove all three lamps from housings; and loosen passing lamp housings. With large spring clamps (clothespin type) put a 24 inch carpenters level across the passing lamp housings; this will make them parallel. With a small level get them verticle and tighten them. Put everything back together, and enjoy the ride. Clifford   Logged     Last Edit: 2009/07/02 06:48 By Clifford. Reason: typo   The administrator has disabled public write access. #208340 cdrprn (User) Senior Boarder Posts: 221 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago   Great idea! I gave up on aiming mine a while ago after using the old lights against the garage wall method. Mostly just turn 'em on in traffic anyway figuring I'm less invisible that way. But I'll try the level.   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #208431 Darn (User) Green and Gold! Platinum Boarder Posts: 3260 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago   After the first time I dumped my bike, I learned that if you do it carefully, you can tweek them buy hand. Don't over do it, but you can get a degree or two with just a little pressure.   Logged       The administrator has disabled public write access. #208473 Big Dawg (User) Senior Boarder Posts: 248 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago   My left one started wandering one day. One time, on a ride, it just kept moving from left to right as I rode. Everyone got a real laugh outta that! Did everything I could to get it to settle down and finally had to add a toothed washer under the lamp housing. In the process, I noticed that it was also aimed higher than the other. Don't know if I could fix it, I also noticed that the turn signal was further away from the lower than the right one. I don;t mind, I think it makes me more visible to oncoming traffic. BD   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #208546 Boatmark (User) Roadie Fan! Senior Boarder Posts: 363 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 3 Weeks ago   As Darn said, (except the dumping part).   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #210095 JosephEHabermann (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 17 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 2 Weeks ago   Clifford, Great Idea! Thank you very much, I will be doing that process tomorrow. I have been away form home for a spell so I could not reply sooner. I will be heading out to Sturges, S.D. soon and am looking forward to having lights that work. Joe   Logged     If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space.   The administrator has disabled public write access. #210175 bstephens600 (User) Fresh Boarder Posts: 34 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 2 Weeks ago   I had similar issues with my passing lamps and found a really helpful idea here in the forum. Cut a piece of tubing that fits inside the conical washers but allows the hollow bolt to pass through it. This helps eliminate some of the wiggle motion associated with trying to keep everything aligned. The real weak link is having the hex nut tighten on square hole on top of the conical surface of the housing. The whole arrangement could be greatly improved. The straight edge idea is a good one for alignment purposes. Good luck...they are a royal pain.   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access. #210967 Erbman02 (User) Expert Boarder Posts: 436 Re:Driving Lamps 4 Months, 1 Week ago   yeah, they are a pain, the running lites on the bottom are independent of the spot housing, move one, the other moves. lol Anyway, this thought came to me since I have one that points up, and the other points down a little. what I thought of was to tape some tinfoil to the spotlight with a hole in the center about a half-dollar size, I figure this would concentrate the bright part of the beam against the wall, then align the spots to the head light beam. Sounds logical, I just don't have a garage, and my lift broke, double whammy for me. lol   Logged     The administrator has disabled public write access.

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