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TOPIC: Re:Driving Lamps
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Driving Lamps 2 Years, 11 Months ago
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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?  |
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 11 Months ago
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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
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Last Edit: 2009/07/02 06:48 By Clifford.
Reason: typo
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cdrprn (User)
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 11 Months ago
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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.
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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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.  |
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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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
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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As Darn said, (except the dumping part).  |
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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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
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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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. |
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Re:Driving Lamps 2 Years, 10 Months ago
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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
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