LED's, my feeble attempts.

[Schlepporello]

OK, the first thing I set out to do when I got this bike was to make it more visible with replacement lighting. I did the right thing and set out to replace/add certain lights with LED components. The first one I replaced was the two small square "things" on the side of the bumper with one of these.

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It was a noticeable improvement, but it just kind of stuck out there. It needed a little something to dress it up. It needed "Bling". Well, a quick visit to a local trucker's chrome shop got me the Bling I needed.

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Needless to say, I like the looks of tis a lot better.

 

The next thing I set out to do was to replace the square "things" on the back of the bumper.

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Thanks to the good folks at Love's Truck Stop and my Love's fuel card, I bought a couple of rectangular LED marker lights (sorry, no pic). These were also a major step above the square things in that they were not only more visible, but they also seemed to update the bumper just a bit appearance wise. They bolted right up, just had about a half inch of clearance at the top of the light and a quarter inch at the bottom. I could easily move it up snug at the top if I wanted to just by drilling a couple of holes per light. So all is well with these lights. But alas, they only had 4 LED bulbs on each side of the light, not quite what I had in mind for a housing that large. Then a co-worker told me of a trucker's chrome shop in Friona, TX. He said that they had stuff I wasn't going to find here in Amarillo, and he was right! The first thing i found was a rectangular light that was the same size as I had just put on, but had 20 LED's in each light.

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I will snug these up against the top lip of the bumper, which will allow me to add a couple of other LED bars under these rectangular ones. The little bars are 4" long by roughly a half inch wide. They will mount directly beneath the larger rectangular lights and will be centered unless I change my mind.

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The bigger rectangular lights will be wired into my running lights while the smaller ones will be wired into my brake lights. In the future, I plan on adding additional lights to the side of the bumper and to the rear of the bike, then I'll look into adding more amber lights to the front.

[Eck]

very nice additions........bet they light up the rear at night....

[Schlepporello]

very nice additions........bet they light up the rear at night....

They would if the missus ever let me out at night.

[Eck]

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They would if the missus ever let me out at night.

 

 

You can alway place a rubber band around the brake lever and then sit in the garage and stare at them ....

[bongobobny]

Looks great!! Yah, truck stops are one of my favorite places to shop for lights, etc...

[Ozark]

Nice looking installation. I need to add more lights to mine, but no rear bumper. Kind of have a plan, but planning is easier than doing. Good Job!!

[Schlepporello]

You can alway place a rubber band around the brake lever and then sit in the garage and stare at them ....

And you think I haven't been doing this already?

[Schlepporello]

OK, after I got home from work tonight, I whipped out the camera phone and snapped a shot of the LED's That I'm currently using on the back of my bumper.These are the one's that I bought at Love's Truck Stop using the earned Diesel points on my Love's card. These only have 8 LED's per light. The one's that will be replacing these have 20. The bad thing about these lights? Only the 8 LED's. The good thing about them? I basically got 'em for free. The sad part about it is that the Love's lights cost $17 each and the one's with 20 LED's cost me $14.

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I do feel that they do enhance the back of the bumper, moreso than the old square faded pieces of plastic. These new ones bolted right in without drilling any holes as there was enough room from where the old lights went to allow for bolts to be run through. This left almost a half inch gap across the top of the light. If I drill two new holes when I install the better LED's, it'll move them snug up against the top. Then I'll be cool and the chicks will dig me.:happy34:

Edited September 10, 2009 by Schlepporello

[Schlepporello]

OK gang, I got busy over the holiday weekend and got all the lights I had on-hand swapped out. The first thing I did was pull off the two 2"x6" rectangular LED's that I had originally installed on the back and put the two that were the same size (except had 20 LED's) in their place. I centered the two 4"x1/2" LED's beneath that. On each end of that, I put two amber bullet lights. The last touch was to add two more red bullets to where the mud flap bolts were. Here's the pic that tells it all.

[Squidley]

Nice looking work there Wayne

[Schlepporello]

Thank you sir!

[Blackjack]

Very nice, indeed! One of these days I'll stay off the bike long enough to work on it. I really, really like your clever use of the LEDs. Most excellent!

 

TERRY

[Schlepporello]

Here's a pic of how the lights look now. I also changed the older photo a few posts up.

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[GaryZ]

Nice looking installation. I need to add more lights to mine, but no rear bumper.

 

I have a bumper for sale; $200