Homemade Harley Passing Lamp Socket

[Jack Klarich]

Cut a 9/16th deep socket down with a dremel tool like in this picture

Now you can adjust and or tighten your Harley passing lamps without having to cut the wires or pay to have it done

 

[Old Road Dog]

Good idea. Made the tool to adjust the passing lamps I just bought off Ebay.Got an 02 Police Electra Glide mounting bracket with passing lamps and signal lamps.Really nice shape. Removed signal lamps. Mounted right up. Gonna run it unwired for awhile to see if I like the look.

Ok wiring- the manuals are valuable for this. If you remove the LH signal lamp nacelle panel (remove two acorn nuts) you will see the signal lamp connector. #31 male/ female.This is a 6 pin Tyco 070 multilock unsealed connector.To BCM all 6 pins have wires.From that connector to signal lamps are only three wires.Position 5&6 on the signal side are empty. On the BCM side 5&6 have blue/black wires connected.

This is your auxiliary lamp Power.You can buy harness pn#69201108 from Harley and youre all set- almost.But I'm thinking I'll just crimp some molex pins or sockets and run wires in position 5&6 and get power that way. Now for the switch. This is HD pn: 71522-08. It's a toggle switch and HD is very proud of it.

I can make up a toggle switch and run leads to #109 which is the connector to power for the switch, a 4 pin Tyco mate-n lock unsealed.You may be able to see this connector by shinning a light up the underside of the tank.I was able to pull it from the caddy. It looks like a white molex 4 pin. But like I said this is far as I'm going to see if I like the look.

 

[SouthportFLRT]

Just asking as I haven't a clue. Would it be possible to simply splice the passing lamp power wire to the turn signal power? No switch required and clearly with both turn signals and passing lamps being LED...the amount of current drawn would be minimal. As I stated...just asking. Not an electrical engineer...nor an engineer of any sort or description.

 

[Jack Klarich]

Just asking as I haven't a clue. Would it be possible to simply splice the passing lamp power wire to the turn signal power? No switch required and clearly with both turn signals and passing lamps being LED...the amount of current drawn would be minimal. As I stated...just asking. Not an electrical engineer...nor an engineer of any sort or description.

These I like better than splice and butt connectors

 

[Old Road Dog]

Just asking as I haven't a clue. Would it be possible to simply splice the passing lamp power wire to the turn signal power? No switch required and clearly with both turn signals and passing lamps being LED...the amount of current drawn would be minimal. As I stated...just asking. Not an electrical engineer...nor an engineer of any sort or description.

Your property do it anyway you want. HD already provides for the proper way to do it. Its simple. Adding the switch which is controlled by the BCM allows the passing lamps to turn off when you hit the highbeam switch.