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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 02:26 PM
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Hey Don.... I dropped you an email asking about your taillight you put in...... (no responce) SO I thought I would ask you on here...
Was it pretty much unplug and remove to plug and replace the tail light and blinkers.. Or did you have to splice it in?? I want one if its easy as un plug
to plug.....

Let me know...... THANKS!
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 04:38 PM
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WTF... sorry dude. Gotta love email. I replied back with a long *** email and ever sent you a picture showing you....


You can see the plug, it's about the same as the stock one. It's not perfect, but it does work. Then you have two yellow wires to connect to the blue (right signal) and orange (left signal) wires. Very simple to do.

Forgot to mention: The white resistors you see in the bag... junk. If you read the warning on them... they get as hot as the light bulb normally did and will melt plastic. I tested them and they did not slow down the flash much at all. All you need is the flasher relay out of a car. Go to any auto part store to buy one for about $15, or if that's too much for you... go shopping at a salvage yard and pull a few out from under the dash. I don't have anything on mine right now. The flash isn't that fast, but when I put my hotbodies LED flush mounts on the front... I'll bet it will be too fast. I'll probably go and pick up the signal flasher relay for a car and use it.



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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 05:21 PM
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Thank you very much Sir!
 
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Old Jan 13, 2006 | 06:02 PM
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I've had a couple requests as to where I bought the tail light from. $84.95 with free shipping and it took less than a week. You know how eBay is and I do not know this seller, but I had luck with him.

Here's one of his auctions for the 600RR and 100RR, same light.


And here is his store so when that link runs out.
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 05:33 AM
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mine is being put on during the repairs on my bike
along with frame sliders and a fender elimminator
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 12:46 PM
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You're paying someone else to have all of your fun??? That's half the fun of the sport is to do-it-yourself.
 
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Old Jan 14, 2006 | 03:35 PM
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Looks good Don! I got the same light on mine. And I don't think you're cheap for not wanting to spend $150 on a fender kit. The 600RR looks almost identical to the 1000RR which was easy to chop. I just ordered the LED tag bolts and tag bracket on e-bay. Costed like $30 to my door. You can't see it unless you put your head under the exhaust -- and when I'm hauling a$$ not too many peeps can do that. I even got creative and put some of that corrugated plastic wire cover thingy on it. Took a ziz wheel and cut the metal bracket and cut the ugly brown plastic thing (painted the ugly brown plastic thing black).
 
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Old Jan 15, 2006 | 01:50 AM
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Nice... this is the way it always goes. After you buy something, you find it some where else cheaper. Same tail light at ronayers.com for $75 shipped.
 
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Old Jan 15, 2006 | 02:42 AM
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Don't ever price stuff after you already got it -- just makes ya feel bad. And c'mon, ya know ya still love it
 
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Old Jan 16, 2006 | 03:33 AM
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I can't help it... I was trying to help others out by finding a better deal. Here are a couple pics of my process. I'm doing the prototype thing until I'm sure of what I'm going with. This doesn't look bad at all to me now. I used a 6" Stainless Steel hose clamp (Lowes $3.00) and modified the aluminum plate I already made. Also picked up a plate light from auto zone for about $5 and I also bought thermal sleeving by Mr. Gasket. Was on sale for 19.99, normally 29.99... and it claims to withstand 1200 F continuous and 2000 F peak. I used this on the wiring for the plate light and since I removed all of the heat shields... I used it on the wires for the rear break since the wires run really close to the exhaust.

Here's the pics of what I've done so far... I'll continue to post as I go. Sorry pics are dark... will do better on the next ones.

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