How To - Moving Turn Signals to Driving Lamps

Moving Your Turn Signals to Your Driving Lamp Bar

Gives you a clean, custom look.

1) Remove the turn signal wiring. If you carefully pull the contact pins out of the bulb socket (make sure there's enough slack in the wire), you can unhook the pins from the plastic holder. Once disengaged, the harness will fish out of the housing, undamaged.

2) Remove the front turn signals from their stalks (2000) or handlebar mounts (1999). The original mounting hole in the signal housing is 5/16". You need to drill this out to 3/8".

3) Remove the spotlight trim rings and bulbs. You'll need to cut these wires inside. The lugs are crimped on and won't fish through. Once he wiring is removed, unscrew the mounting nuts holding the spotlight housings on.

4) The stud used to mount the spotlights is 3/8-16 thread. The nuts are threaded but not all the way through. You'll need to get a 3/8" tap and continue the threads all the way through the nut. Once the nuts are tapped, you'll need to make a 3/8-16 mounting stud for the signals. Make sure the studs are long enough to use the extra 1/2" or so of unused threads at the bottom of the spotlight nut, pass through the housing, and have room for a washer and nut inside the signal housing.

6) Drill a hole in each spotlight housing for the lamp wiring. If you can get 5/16" grommets, you can drill a hold right at the bottom, between the trim ring and the mounting flange, and the wire will make a short, graceful bend into the tube and is less noticeable that the original routing.

7) Now you can route the turn signal wires through each side of the light bar and run the spotlight wiring. Mount the spotlights and temporarily snug the nuts down. Screw in your bolts (from Step 4) into the bottom of the nuts. Once it bottoms, back it out 1/2 to 1 turn (you don't want the threads to bind or you won't be able to tighten the spotlights). Slide the signal housing onto the stud, put a 3/8" washer and nut on and finger tighten.

8) Reassemble everything. Make sure you aim the spotlights before you tighten the turn signals for the last time. Once they are aimed, rotate the signals as needed and tighten the nuts inside each signal housing. Put the bulbs and lenses back on and check to make sure everything works.