Has anyone swapped out the headlight light bulb with an LED bulb, if so witch bulb?. I would like to keep original housing if I can but I added under tank LED lights ( bright white ) an would like headlight to match. Plus swapped all other lights to led.

I have used/tried a lot of H4 headlight bulbs in both my Savage and Ninja Cafe' bikes - unfortunately I have no experience with the stock headlight on the Savage.  Most of them should work fine in the Savage - however I recently sent Youzguyz a couple of LED's that I had used in my car and  bikes - and for some reason they would shut down when he installed them on his bike.

The Savage headlight bucket is small and crowded, it is easier to fit the lights if you can find one that has a built in driver.....and not one with a separate box.  The Cyclops bulb emits a lot of light - but it has a separate driver and a very bulky connector.

Dave wrote on 01/02/19 at 11:30:03:


 

Thank u VERRY much everyone, I will look more into it. excilent point about the not used power creating excess heat. I already drilled 2 holes in top of head light housing to add 2 toggle switches, one for high beam low beam an off, other for under tank lights on/ off. So lost some room inside already. Thanks again I'll let u guys know what I figure out.

I personally have a distain for the mass of wires and connectors found inside the stock headlight housing . I have removed all of that except the three wires to the headlight itself.  Though the headlight bulb is protected from the weather ,the wiring and connectors are not. Removing the wires ,frees up all the space and allows maximum air flow around the bulb, and you could use an H4 bulb 100/90 watt instead of the stock H4 60/55 watt ,that would give brighter light and would work in the stock bucket much better than an LED ,for the simple reason that the stock bucket is not deep enough to properly focus most of them.
      The added power draw used by the larger H4 will have been balanced by the use of your LEDs on the rest of the bike , so over heating the rec/reg should not be a problem. If the plastic bucket seemed to run to hot you could drill a few vent holes in the rear to enhance circulation .