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RobSchneider Junior Member Offline what? Posts: 72	Re: Headlight Reply #15 - 07/03/13 at 03:34:13 I drilled a hole as well, works fine. You can also use a bracket, maybe custom made?
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: Headlight Reply #16 - 07/03/13 at 09:16:40 stinger wrote on 07/03/13 at 01:23:51: WD, What make is that green station wagon by the fence? A 1953-1959 English Ford Anglia.
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Re: Headlight
Reply #17 - 07/03/13 at 09:31:32

Paladin. wrote on 07/03/13 at 09:16:40:

stinger wrote on 07/03/13 at 01:23:51:

WD, What make is that green station wagon by the fence?

A 1953-1959 English Ford Anglia.

Close Paladin, it's actually a 1954 Squire. 2 door 4 seater that came stock with an 8 horsepower 4 cylinder. The green one in the pic ran a 1974 (one year only) Datsun 210 1.4L engine block and 4 speed transmission, with a head off a later model 1.2L engine for a compression bump. Powertrain courtesy of a Hollywood studio lot garage, it was an old prop car my stepson found on a used lot in WA. Supposed to have been a background car in the 2nd Austin Powers movie when the car was still tan or light blue. Never watched the movie, can't confirm or deny its presence.

Stepson still had the car out in WA when Lisa and I moved back to TN. He's since moved back to MS, no idea what he did with the car (probably gave it away, it was a heap).

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Reply #19 - 07/03/13 at 15:50:31

I been trying to swap out my headlight this week as the stock one is starting to split. Plastic backing Suzuki? shame on you.
Anyway to save someone greif - those chrome universal headlight brackets didn't fit the 38mm forks at all and are designed for slimmer forks me thinks. I'm actually gonna go back to a bottom mount cause I eventually found some side mount brackets and well... sorry but it looked wrong to me.
I am thinking of messin with this bracket:
http://edmundson-electrical.voltilink.co.uk/catalogue.jsp?product_id=SB515&br...
will have to come up with something for getting an angle going on though.
This one's got me salivating:

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strang Senior Member Offline Posts: 387 london Gender:	Re: Headlight Reply #20 - 07/03/13 at 16:10:19 actually found this on another forum just now. basically the bigger hole is from the bottom mount of new headlight and it hangs over the front edge of the bottom tree so that the bolt going through is clear. Then you just bolt the back two holes onto the stock mount area. Clever. Some people are much smarter than me
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Reply #21 - 07/05/13 at 05:36:51

Here is a rather fancy and expensive adapter for the headlight mount.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HM2-Headlight-MOUNT-Suzuki-S40-M50-B95-Boulevard-VZ80...

I wonder if this kind of adapter doesn't push the headlight out front too far?

An adapter could be made out of an aluminum block that would have a stud mounted much closer to the existing holes, and just a bit taller.

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Greg Serious Thumper Offline Molon Labe Posts: 1251 Southeast PA, uSA Gender:	Re: Headlight Reply #22 - 07/05/13 at 06:02:17 Question about side mount and fork brackets. How do they mount straight if the headlight is wider or narrower? Do we need a specific diameter bucket or specific bracket?
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: Headlight Reply #23 - 07/05/13 at 07:40:50 Let me find my camera. My sidemount brackets will work on 33-39mm fork tubes based on the mounting slot chosen, and I set them as wide as possible and used aluminum spacers for the 7" bucket... Emgo brackets and Emgo bucket.
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Reply #24 - 07/05/13 at 13:04:41

Dave wrote on 07/05/13 at 05:36:51:

Here is a rather fancy and expensive adapter for the headlight mount.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HM2-Headlight-MOUNT-Suzuki-S40-M50-B95-Boulevard-VZ80...

I wonder if this kind of adapter doesn't push the headlight out front too far?

An adapter could be made out of an aluminum block that would have a stud mounted much closer to the existing holes, and just a bit taller.

Precisely:
First mount, re-mount:

That flat mount will have the headlight poking out forward, same as my first attempt. I held the light and eyeballed where I wanted it placed, and made an adapter to mount it correctly.

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strang Senior Member Offline Posts: 387 london Gender:	Re: Headlight Reply #25 - 07/05/13 at 15:26:45 I used a 7 inch headlight and there was quite a gap to be made up to fit the fork mounted brackets. I gave up on this route but if you want to go down this road I'd go for the largest headlight you can get and as has been stated, maybe look at a couple of spacers to take up the slack. Our forks are quite wide.
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Re: Headlight
Reply #26 - 07/05/13 at 17:10:45

strang wrote on 07/05/13 at 15:26:45:

I used a 7 inch headlight and there was quite a gap to be made up to fit the fork mounted brackets. I gave up on this route but if you want to go down this road I'd go for the largest headlight you can get and as has been stated, maybe look at a couple of spacers to take up the slack. Our forks are quite wide. Grin

Too wide, bike should have shipped with 35mm Ironhead narrow glide type forks. Can't even see the gas tank on mine from a head on view, and the tank is bright orange... Grin

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