Monday, October 16, 2006

Front Blinker Project

The front "parking lights" on the bike are pretty much a useless feature. Most people usually just disable this so they don't drain their battery if they accidently turn their key past off to the "Park" mode. Since I wanted to get rid of my ugly front blinkers I decided to change the parking lights into my new blinkers.

Required Items

  • 194 NA amber lights from any auto parts store
  • Heat shrink
  • Soldering iron

Stock Blinkers


Stock Parking Bulbs



The first thing I did was to remove the stock blinkers.
After that I removed the access plates for the front light assembly, pull out the stock bulbs and put in the new amber ones. After that I cut off the wiring harness connector for the blinker and the parking light.





Next I soldered the wires together, heat shrinked each individual wire and then heat shrinked both of them for some added protection.



Plug the light socket back into place, put the cover plates back on and it's done, takes about 20 minutes and looks very clean. The only thing I have to do is cut some small pieces of carbon fiber to blank off where the stock blinkers went through the fairing.


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