Aftermarket tail lights

I've been sitting here pondering why Draco's light uses those itty bitty 1157's, and my light, which appears identical to his, holds full size 1157's.
Looking closer at Dracos light, it looks like the light bulb socket itself doesn't sit flush with the inside of his housing. I'll look at mine tonite, and if mine does sit flush with the housing, we'll know why they're different. I'll post pics for comparison.

CoreyClough wrote:

A dwarf light bulb in a married man's hand. Hmmmmmm :huh: :blink: No scars, not blisters, clean too. You work indoors? Just joshin' with you. :laugh:

Yep, I'm a govt' employee, Microfilm Operator for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
It's boring as all hell, but the pay is decent, plus i have my own office where I can sit and play on KZR all day if I want!:evil: :evil: As for the clean scar free hands, this is my first bike, and it runs and rides well, haven't had a need to get scarred up yet.

riverroad wrote:

I've been sitting here pondering why....

I'm also very interested in this... Thanks!

Uh HUH. There does appear to be a big difference between the lights you guys bought off of ebay, and the one I bought from www.flyncycle.com/index.html .

Socket is definately set deeper in mine.

Full size 1157 fits.

The only thing I don't like is the fact that they bothered to make a gasket for it, then turn around and left the socket bases and wires open to the elements. Needs some kinda boot on there.
The old screen door on a submarine logic.

Post edited by: riverroad, at: 2007/03/16 08:01

Yep, That'll do it. mine didn't even come with a way to mount it anywhere. I see that yours has some mounting hardware below the lights. are your housings plastic like ours?

Yep, they are plastic, and it's not hard to crossthread the screw holes if you aren't real careful. The mounting hardware is a couple of chrome screws and a slab of neoprene. But I wasn't able to remove the clear license plate illuminator parts of them.
Same parts, different assemblyline/sweatshop?

The clear lenses just slid out on mine. I asked the seller why the auction stated that the item location was BC Canada, but the lights were shipped from Taiwan.
They said "Yes, our factory is in Taiwan, so sometimes parts are shipped directly from there." It's all BS no matter what spin is put on it. At least you will be able to find bulbs for yours! I hope yours works out for you, I'm not going to insult my 750 by putting them on mine.

Well, I wouldn't give up on them quite yet. A little southern engineering and some JBWeld and you could modify them to hold regular 1157's if you felt like it was worth it. That and write a "quality" review on the seller. Seems to me if he was honest he'd mention the oddball size of the lightbulb in his ad.

riverroad wrote:

...A little southern engineering and some JBWeld and you could modify them to hold regular 1157's if you felt like it was worth it.....
Seems to me if he was honest he'd mention the oddball size of the lightbulb in his ad.

I agree with both of those points. I'm going to try later and see if I can modify the way the socket sits in there.

I also noticed that my red lenses are different. My lenses have a light diffuser right inline/over the bulb - yours appear to be completely clear red.

EDIT: I just went out and looked. The bulb socket is *molded* into the entire light housing (separate from the plate holder, of course). It would be difficult to modify it. It might be worth the $30 just to buy the good one.
ALSO I finally looked on the "mini" bulb to see what the numbers are on it: 12V 18/5W ... pathetic, no?

Post edited by: Biquetoast, at: 2007/03/16 09:56