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Cat's Eye tail light extender
09/04/12 at 12:26:17

So I ordered a typical Cat's Eye tailight to replace the stock toaster. But when I installed it where the stock reflector/plate light was it seemed too far into the fender and didn't really get enough light onto the plate. So after searching through spare parts and junk I pulled out the front frame reflectors that were removed once I got the bike LOL.

You know these things-

After removing the reflector off the mount I then Dremeled the mounting tab off the side and drilled holes for where the Cat's Eye mounting bolts would line up.

Here's the mount from the front reflector mounted on the back of the Cat's Eye tail light-

The only other mod I had to do was get longer bolts from the local hardware store for $0.80 and reused the thick rubber gasket from the old relector/plate light. It looks alot better with the spacer, the plate gets illuminted properly now and I got to reuse something that would have just sat in a drawer for decades. Wink

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teabowl13 Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 535	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #1 - 09/04/12 at 14:11:18 I don't know why Suzi never designed the bike with that kind of tail light in the first place. Looks Great!
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #2 - 09/04/12 at 14:23:45 Funny thing is that it would probably be considerably cheaper to manufacture too, it's a smaller tail light and it would eliminate the need to manufacture the reflector/plate light also. They also would no longer need to put holes in the rear fender too LoL
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ZAR Serious Thumper Offline Rock this town! Rock it inside out! Posts: 961 Kentucky, USA Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #3 - 09/04/12 at 19:41:23 teabowl13 wrote on 09/04/12 at 14:11:18: I don't know why Suzi never designed the bike with that kind of tail light in the first place. Looks Great! May have something to do with DOT and visibility Tea. Toes you just answered my quandry of how to mount a Lucas style rear lamp on my Savage. Nice work!
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #4 - 09/05/12 at 04:44:34 Hey ZAR I'm glad my silly ramblings actually sparked some inspiration for once LOL
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Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender
Reply #5 - 09/05/12 at 17:53:08

Ok you knew it was coming, now that I got rid of the toaster taillight what to do with those pesky holes.

Yup these suckers-

Well I've decided to embrace my Irish heritage and go with a Celtic theme for the bike. So I picked up a large Celtic knot belt buckle and ginded the belt loop and post off, then started to mock up a mount.

Tappered up from the 4 holes up to the belt buckle, should sit something like this when done-

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #6 - 09/11/12 at 08:15:30 I decided not to mount the Celtic badge so high after getting a few different mock ups, but here is what I ended up with to cover up the four holes left from the original tail light. I also wound up making it from wood instead of resin as it was smaller and made it easier to just sand it to the proper shape.
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Bubba Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 956 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #7 - 09/11/12 at 08:25:23 that is just plain awesome!
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #8 - 09/11/12 at 19:05:09 Thanks Bubba
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MarkHB Junior Member Offline Go for it! Posts: 88 Ottawa, Canada Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #9 - 09/11/12 at 20:27:37 Both mods look really good! I didn't really realize how ugly that stock rear light is. Maybe I can find a fleur de lis to mount over my holes whe I replace the toaster.
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #10 - 09/12/12 at 03:08:05 I covered the holes in the fender with a magnet. Alot easier but it doesn't look as good as yours.
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Bubba Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 956 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #11 - 09/13/12 at 08:20:41 Toes, I like what you've done to your speedo also...so what was it you did to your speedo?
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #12 - 09/13/12 at 08:31:58 It's all on this post Bubba http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1345772898/0
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mojohand40 Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 80	Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender Reply #13 - 09/13/12 at 08:45:15 looks great! where'd you order the taillight (and part number)? I have a cat's eye I was going to put on, but it's much thinner and I like the look of that one better. thanks
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Re: Cat's Eye tail light extender
Reply #14 - 09/13/12 at 17:31:36

It's from DeniseSB on FleaBay-
http://www.ebay.com/itm/350191835563?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m...

I looked at a number of different ones from different vendors and web sites, but that one just seemed to look like it fit the stock fender best to me Cheesy

Here was the LED one I was considering also after I narrowed them all down-

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300726219950?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m...

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