our young shawnii just rang to find out whilst on his big southern adventure trip ...(about newcastle )

im sure it was the call that sparked an embarasment, ,cause i asked him to call back ....after i found my newly aquired headlight .

for seanii ,,,of corse that rotten clip went straight in and cliped home and all is good ...after he called me the first time ...giggles........ he called back to confirm the success

must be a day for weird happenings .....huh ? 21-12-12 (mayan calender and all that) .


but maybe we can learn form the experience


so heres the dirt

globe situated correctly ....notice largest tab at about 1.15 - 1.30 o'clock and in line with the central lug for the headlight electrical connection .



sit the clip near verticle with the verticle finger tabs ....the seating (horizontal tabs ) should be near 8.45 and 2.45 before attempting to push it in with a rotation to the right .....



finally home with a twist of the wrist



all done !!!!!

An interesting aside.....whilst I was trying to work out why my my low beam was missing in action ( as a result of electrical issues in the switch block) anyhow I had occasion to change a number of bulbs to isolate that prospect, so I got quite good at it but the rubber water preventative ( prophalactis headlightus) cover was a bugger to get back in place so I discovered that if you face the front of the fairing and hold the rubber in both hands around the fairing and stretched and applied ....it went straight on.

Would provide a picture but it looks totally inappropriate and tantamount to motocyclophilia....so imagination may be best.

Good one, Charlie.........since a question about this shows up now and then,
I think it should be moved to the "how to" section....