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Old 17th February 2013, 04:11 PM
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Spent the last couple of weeks fitting and wiring my headlights and front indicators.
That took a bit longer than I expected...



Turns out I had originally welded my headlight brackets on in the wrong place and the front wheels hit them on full lock
After umming and arring for months on what to do I ended up just cutting the end of the brackets off, and drilling new holes in them for the headlight bolts to go through.
To cover the resulting sharp edges I pushed on a couple of rubber end caps before fitting the headlights (still need to put some trim around the headlight bases).



For the indicator extensions I went locost and used a metal tube from my old bed frame (I kept hold of a couple after dismantling it, thinking they'd come in handy for something!).

Rather than two individual extensions I went for a single tube running the whole width, with a couple of nuts welded into the end to screw the indicators into.
To hold it in place I just used sikaflex on the inside of the nose cone (and sikaflexed my front grill in place while I was at it).

Also fibreglassed some cable tie bases in to the nose cone to keep the wiring tidy.



I've changed the wiring slightly since I took the above photo so the wires for both indicators come out of the same hole in the tube, and both run down the side with the tie bases so I only have to disconnect the wires in one place to remove the nosecone.

Last edited by skov : 17th February 2013 at 04:13 PM.
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