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KZ550 and KZ1100 front turn sig relocate
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I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this but I don't remember seeing it done before.
Don't fix it until it's broken.
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Don't fix it until it's broken.
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I've been thinking of doing the same thing but have never seen it done. I guess it was pretty easy to drill the holes?
For an even cleaner look, you might be able to install turn signal stems in place of the handlebar clamp brackets. This may not work if your headlight ears aren't perpendicular to the headlight, though. I used aftermarket KZ stems from Z1Enterprises.com in place of the big headlight bolts. Probably a better install would be to use KZ400 stems or Honda CB stems --- the 400 & CB stems are very similar to each other. The K&S stems I used have a diamond flange that looks weird, even though the flange is covered by a rubber damper.
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As for rotating the light to vertical, all you have to do is to remove the nut and bolt from the stalk and spin the light up or down as needed.
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650ed wrote: Ouch! I wouldn't have drilled any holes in the headlight ears. I would simply have mounted the turn signals the normal way using the stalks that go into the headlight module. Ed
Not sure where you got those stalks. My headlights are mounted with chrome bolts and nuts on the inside of the bucket. Those stalks look like ones on the rear. But I left my rear signals OEM.
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650ed's bike is stock. quite a few KZ models cam stock with the turn signals at the headlight bucket or fork ears.
Turn signal stems could have been installed on your 1100 in place of the big headlight bolts as they are both 10mm. It's what I did.
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Yes, several models had them mounted on the bars.drakhen99 wrote: Not to threadjack too bad, but were there any times when the front turn signals were mounted to the handlebars? My 79 KZ650SR, which I got recently, has them mounted on knurlings on the handlebars, not on the headlight bucket sides.
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ps: the handlebar turn signals have tiny grounding rings, so I cut those off & installed 10mm ring terminals. At the time I didn't have a proper crimper, so I did mash crimps & sealed the joint w Permatex liquid metal --- the epoxy dries like a hard plastic & has held up well.
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martin_csr wrote: Thanks. As for the perpendicular comment, I was thinking if the fork ears are kinda angled inwards, the turn signal stem idea won't work as the turn signals would be kind of askew, pointing inwards, instead of forwards.
650ed's bike is stock. quite a few KZ models cam stock with the turn signals at the headlight bucket or fork ears.
Turn signal stems could have been installed on your 1100 in place of the big headlight bolts as they are both 10mm. It's what I did.
Where I have mine mounted the ears are perpendicular, or nearly so, to the headlight so they pretty much point straight ahead.
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