Which Taillights?

Discussion in 'Exterior' started by ak_cowboy, Dec 5, 2010.

LMC or Recon?

  1. LMC

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  2. Recon

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  1. cowboy

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    That sucks.
     
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    Opened up the passenger light today. Baked it at 200* for 10min, then 5min, still broke it apart. These lights aren't supposed to come apart at all. Found the resistors had broken off the board, tried soldering them back but it didn't work.

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    time to get some OE's and harley mod em :shrug:
     
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    That's too bad that the lights have already failed. I find that stuff from Recon is so overpriced, yet their products are foreign made. For that kind of pricing I would want something made in the United States with a lifetime warranty.

    Personally I like the look of the factory lights, and I would like the original Harley lights but they're nearly $200/each at the dealer. I'm already running LEDs on mine, 50W Cree 3157s for brake lights and 50W Cree 3156s for reverse lights. I might try to bake them at a later date to take then apart and mod them even further.

    You can still salvage those lights though, I wouldn't call it game over. I actually purchase pre-wired LEDs with built-in resistors and rebuild it from there, if the lens and housing are still intact.
     
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    I think these were made by Spyder, the Recons and most others had that annoying round reflector or bubble on the bottom. These were the only ones with a rectangle reflector.
    I cracked the housing after baking it, no other way to open it up :smh: I might try rebuilding them... or getting some stockers and doing those.

    Has anyone ever opened up the stock ones?
     
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    I don't know of anyone on this forum who has but on the previous site that I was a member of many owners baked theirs to take it apart and modify them. They'd run additional LEDs or spray the inside with VHT Nightshades to give it the "murdered" look and so on.
     
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    My tails are stocks I Harley modded myself. Same rules are headlights. About 220 for 10 minutes at a time. They're fragile as hell, I cracked one set, had to buy a set off Craigslist. Paint everything except the two chrome half spheres. I also did a coat of niteshades over it.
     
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    Maybe I'll give that a shot... idk, I may try to rewire these again and silicone the crap out of them.

    any electrical gurus recognize the resistors?
     
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    10 watt 100 ohm resistors :)
     
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    what does the J mean? :shrug:


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