Brit Iron Rebels - Rainier Clan
 
A couple of posts down I wrote about putting a 70 something Yamaha light on my Bonnie....The bullet style signals I had on there from the last light just didn't look right, plus they were not working anyway, riding all winter had destroyed them internally.  I went to Bent Bike and got a couple of 1980 Kawasaki KZ440 signals to replace them with. They were chrome, so the first thing I did was prime and rattle can them with black rustoleum so they would match the tailight...Plus my white trash soul enjoys spray painting things with rustoleum....Sorry for the quality of all these pictures, I did this job on my duty day at the Base and didn't have anything but my cellphone camera.
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1980 KZ440 signals.....
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It was actually pretty easy to pull off the old ones and crimp the wires on the new ones to the signal plugs under the fender.  Of course these signals are set up to be running lights too, so there were two power wires I could choose from. I chose poorly. The first time I hooked up the running light filament, and they were way too fast, it was like they were a third grader who just ate a whole box of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. After switching to the right wires, all was well though, they work like a champ now. And they "fit" with the tailight as well....
I used my SpliSeal kit again, ( http://spliseal.com/index.html ) but was not as impressed this time around.  It does make a nice water tight seal, and looks pretty good, but  its a little bulky when its done, and I did 4 in a row this time. The mold got hot and it took forever to cool enough to take it off without ripping the "rubber". I think in the future I will stick to heat shrink tubing. Its got its place, especially in a wet or marine environment, but overall I think its not worth what they want for it...

Finally, here's my baby parked outside the office, waiting to ride home tomorrow morning. Looks good, the picture really doesn't do it justice.
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