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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Suzuki Marauder Headlight Swap 03/24/16 at 16:01:37 The Suzuki Marauder 97-04 have 7" head lamps, ebay had dozens for sale. Make sure they're 7" and not 5" lights, ask the seller to measure the GLASS not the diameter of the ring. *THIS IS A PLUG AND PLAY DIRECT SWAP, NO MODS TO THE HARNESS OR TRIPLE-TREE ARE REQUIRED.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #1 - 03/24/16 at 16:02:50 unbolt your OEM headlight, 2x 12mm nuts under the lower tripletree.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #2 - 03/24/16 at 16:04:03 remove the 2x phillips screws L/R that holds in your headlight glass and ring. Lift from the bottom of the glass and ring and a slight twist it should come out. There's a "lip" that holds fast to the upper portion of your bucket. Unplug the BLACK plug that connects to the bulb.
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Reply #3 - 03/24/16 at 16:09:00

next, unplug only 1 (one) of the turn signal connections, it's all you need to get enough clearance to remove the wires from the bucket. I unplugged the blue/black connector (right signal).

next, unplug the white connector that plugged your black headlight connector. This will take some doing, it's a VERY tight connection.

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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #4 - 03/24/16 at 16:12:07 remove the rear cover from the Marauder bucket and mount the bucket to the lower tripletree.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #5 - 03/24/16 at 16:13:39 feed your wires back through the hole in the new bucket and make all your connections.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #6 - 03/24/16 at 16:15:44 put the headlight in the bucket and secure it with the 2x phillips screws. and replace the rear cover with the 2x phillips screws making sure to feed the wires through the center slot.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #7 - 03/24/16 at 16:17:04 START your bike and run through a check of ALL you lights, signals, flashers, hi/low beam. ENJOY.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #8 - 03/24/16 at 16:17:49 Side profile picture. It sticks out quite a bit more than the stock OEM light.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #9 - 03/24/16 at 16:19:15 this swap took all of 20 minutes that included me smoking a cigar, getting a drink and messing with some clam chowder I had started on the stove. IT IS AN EASY UPGRADE.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #10 - 03/24/16 at 18:16:23 Awesome write-up! Thanks Rat! We've been trying to figure out which year Marauder lights work for a while.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #11 - 03/24/16 at 18:26:38 You're welcome. Glad to be the guinea rat.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28899 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #12 - 03/24/16 at 18:35:05 good enough to get a promotion.
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #13 - 03/24/16 at 18:37:19 verslagen1 wrote on 03/24/16 at 18:35:05: good enough to get a promotion. does it come with a significant pay raise?
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DesertRat Serious Thumper Offline I love rat bikes! Posts: 1569 Arizona	Re: Suzuki Marauder headlight swap walkthrough Reply #14 - 03/24/16 at 18:38:20 now to take it back off and paint it satin black like the rest of my tins
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