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srinath Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 5349	Headlight rattle. 07/19/09 at 20:35:22 The blooming headlight makes an ungodly rattle. Any ideas on how to fix it. Thanks in advance. Its tight and in there ... and adjusts just fine, I pulled it apart and it has springs etc in it ... nothing obviously erong wiht it really. Cool. Srinath.
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RadRacer Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 50 Petaluma,Calif Gender:	Re: Headlight rattle. Reply #1 - 07/19/09 at 23:50:16 check the bolts underneath the triple tree plate mine was really loose so i removed bolts and put a small amount of blue locktight now its solid as hell
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Re: Headlight rattle.
Reply #2 - 07/20/09 at 04:47:35

srinath wrote on 07/19/09 at 20:35:22:

The blooming headlight makes an ungodly rattle. Any ideas on how to fix it. Thanks in advance. Its tight and in there ... and adjusts just fine, I pulled it apart and it has springs etc in it ... nothing obviously erong wiht it really.
Cool.
Srinath.

About those springs. IF you put electrical tape around the housings of the springs, or even around the springs you will reduce the rattle big time. I found that the three tabs those springs went through would rub against the springs or their housing when the bike vibrated. This stopped my rattle. Now I hear other sounds I never used to and they concern me lol.

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Reply #3 - 07/25/09 at 06:41:06

Here is what I did.
I took a piece of the same 1/2 inch foam that I used in my seat rebuild, (the dense blue camping mat from Walmart's) and cut a circle to fit the inside of the headlight housing, I then cut the center out of that making a ring about 1/2 inch thick outside to inside. This forms a foam gasket around the face of the bulb. No more rattle! It has been working for two months now.
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redwolf YaBB Newbies Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 20	Re: Headlight rattle. Reply #4 - 07/27/09 at 09:25:38 Check for a crack on the mount....mine did the same thing and I finally found a crack...had to buy a new one.
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