cronus1987
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$150 for a set of mirrors with integrated turn signals? I think not. how about $25? [up]
In my continuing quest to never leave well enough alone and trying out bar end indicators (near invisible during the day) i thought i'd find a way to mount some indicators into my existing mirrors and i think the results turned out well..
Supplies needed:
a pair of Flush mount LED turn signals ( i used https://www.d2moto.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=LTS010-Smoke)
a 3/4" spade drill bit
3' (ish) of 20g (ish) wire ( i just cut the wire from an no longer needed motorola cell phone charger)
9/64" drill bit (or whatever size the wire will fit through)
small, round, metal file
soldering iron
shrink tubing or electrical tape.
male bullet connectors the same size as your factory turn signals' (or just chop off the old ones and use those)
a tube of black silicon adhesive (from car parts store, trucker store..)
2 amber LED bolts from radioshack (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062570)
I broke the glass in one of my mirrors, so i took everything out when i did this and used replacement "glass" (plastic) from autozone, but you can do this without busting your glass..
Firstly, Unbolt your mirrors from the bike and remove them. Baseplate and all.
mark on the back of each mirror with a white out marker where you're going to drill the 3/4" hole. It took me a while to get exact marks on each mirror, but it helps to use masking tape layed side by side from the top of the mirror and then measuring along the tape with a ruler from the stalk to get pretty even marks. Just keep measuring and comparing till you're happy with it.
use a soldering iron or a hot piece of metal to indent the plastic where your mark is and drill the 3/4 hole. You may end up drilling out a bit of foam from inside the mirror, but no worries.
take your smaller drill bit and drill near where the mirror stalk is so you have somewhere to run the wire.
solder your wire to the wires on your flush mount indicators. Make sure the wires have some sort of marking that differentiates positive and negative. cover your solders with tape or tubing.
take an uncurled big paper clip and run it through the small hole up towards the 3/4" hole. attach the ends of your now very long blinker wires to the paper clip. probably easiest to just bend the paper clip back on itself and pinch the wire in it.
extract the paper clip and pull the wire through the small hole. This could be tricky and may take a few tries. If the wire just won't come through with the paper clip, you may need to bore out the hole a little at a time till you get it.
The indicators i ordered (in the above link) came with double sided foam tape the exact size and shape of the back of the blinker and that's what i used to attach them. You can use black silicon to get a more finished look after you stick them on which is what i'll eventually go back and do. just use a pop sickle stick or your finger or something to get even silicon around the blinker. The silicon is really optional.
take the metal file and file out a section on the bottom lip of the mirror stalk base plate. The edge that faces the ground is best as it makes the wire less noticeable. round off any sharp edges so you don't cut through the wires when you mount everything back up.
drill a small hole for the wire in the front fairing more or less right in the middle of the 2 existing ones for the mirror base plate.
Now thread the wire through the hole you just made in the fairing and run it in between the fairing and the fairing support bracket. It'll come out sort of behind the head lights.
get your mirrors mounted back on and pull extra wire through as you go. an extra set of hands really helps here.
figure out how much extra wire you have hanging out the bottom of your fairing and cut it so you have a few inches more than what you need. You could also just bundle up the excess with electrical tape.
install the LED bolts in the original indicator holes on the side of the fairing. ( i think you can figure this part out
). Don't torque the nut down much past hand tight as the threads are plastic and strip easily. They will hold the fairing on fine. I've tested this over the last 5-6k miles at *clears throat* "high" speeds.
Now, you can either crimp both the blinker and the LED bolt wires into the bullet connector or you can splice the LED bolt wire into the wires from the blinker. your call. I spliced to give myself a little more room to bundle up extra wire. just make sure you cover the soldered splice with tape or shrink tubing.
plug in the wires making sure you've got positive to positive and negative to negative. LEDs don't like reversed polarity...
aaaaand you're done!
I didn't use any LED blinker relays because strangely, mine blink normal with just the original relay. when i had bar end blinkers i just took the relays out and put them right back in... for some reason they no longer blinked fast.. might work for you, might not..idk.
ENJOY!
In my continuing quest to never leave well enough alone and trying out bar end indicators (near invisible during the day) i thought i'd find a way to mount some indicators into my existing mirrors and i think the results turned out well..
Supplies needed:
a pair of Flush mount LED turn signals ( i used https://www.d2moto.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=LTS010-Smoke)
a 3/4" spade drill bit
3' (ish) of 20g (ish) wire ( i just cut the wire from an no longer needed motorola cell phone charger)
9/64" drill bit (or whatever size the wire will fit through)
small, round, metal file
soldering iron
shrink tubing or electrical tape.
male bullet connectors the same size as your factory turn signals' (or just chop off the old ones and use those)
a tube of black silicon adhesive (from car parts store, trucker store..)
2 amber LED bolts from radioshack (http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062570)
I broke the glass in one of my mirrors, so i took everything out when i did this and used replacement "glass" (plastic) from autozone, but you can do this without busting your glass..
Firstly, Unbolt your mirrors from the bike and remove them. Baseplate and all.
mark on the back of each mirror with a white out marker where you're going to drill the 3/4" hole. It took me a while to get exact marks on each mirror, but it helps to use masking tape layed side by side from the top of the mirror and then measuring along the tape with a ruler from the stalk to get pretty even marks. Just keep measuring and comparing till you're happy with it.
use a soldering iron or a hot piece of metal to indent the plastic where your mark is and drill the 3/4 hole. You may end up drilling out a bit of foam from inside the mirror, but no worries.
take your smaller drill bit and drill near where the mirror stalk is so you have somewhere to run the wire.
solder your wire to the wires on your flush mount indicators. Make sure the wires have some sort of marking that differentiates positive and negative. cover your solders with tape or tubing.
take an uncurled big paper clip and run it through the small hole up towards the 3/4" hole. attach the ends of your now very long blinker wires to the paper clip. probably easiest to just bend the paper clip back on itself and pinch the wire in it.
extract the paper clip and pull the wire through the small hole. This could be tricky and may take a few tries. If the wire just won't come through with the paper clip, you may need to bore out the hole a little at a time till you get it.
The indicators i ordered (in the above link) came with double sided foam tape the exact size and shape of the back of the blinker and that's what i used to attach them. You can use black silicon to get a more finished look after you stick them on which is what i'll eventually go back and do. just use a pop sickle stick or your finger or something to get even silicon around the blinker. The silicon is really optional.
take the metal file and file out a section on the bottom lip of the mirror stalk base plate. The edge that faces the ground is best as it makes the wire less noticeable. round off any sharp edges so you don't cut through the wires when you mount everything back up.
drill a small hole for the wire in the front fairing more or less right in the middle of the 2 existing ones for the mirror base plate.
Now thread the wire through the hole you just made in the fairing and run it in between the fairing and the fairing support bracket. It'll come out sort of behind the head lights.
get your mirrors mounted back on and pull extra wire through as you go. an extra set of hands really helps here.
figure out how much extra wire you have hanging out the bottom of your fairing and cut it so you have a few inches more than what you need. You could also just bundle up the excess with electrical tape.
install the LED bolts in the original indicator holes on the side of the fairing. ( i think you can figure this part out
). Don't torque the nut down much past hand tight as the threads are plastic and strip easily. They will hold the fairing on fine. I've tested this over the last 5-6k miles at *clears throat* "high" speeds.Now, you can either crimp both the blinker and the LED bolt wires into the bullet connector or you can splice the LED bolt wire into the wires from the blinker. your call. I spliced to give myself a little more room to bundle up extra wire. just make sure you cover the soldered splice with tape or shrink tubing.
plug in the wires making sure you've got positive to positive and negative to negative. LEDs don't like reversed polarity...
aaaaand you're done!
I didn't use any LED blinker relays because strangely, mine blink normal with just the original relay. when i had bar end blinkers i just took the relays out and put them right back in... for some reason they no longer blinked fast.. might work for you, might not..idk.
ENJOY!
