Farside
Badly Welded Man
- Messages
- 5,463
- Location
- Ireland
... along came Craig Vetter.
Another step in the Vetterisation of Emily (I don't name my bikes, that's just for effect).
Finally got the WJ IV fitted, only to discover an annoying slight unsymmetry in the bracket and / or fairing. It's only obvious in the spacing twixt fairing and fuel tank, but it might be the bike the bracket came from was laid down and the bracket pushed over to the left a bit. It will do for now though, and I simply am not going to take it off and mess around with it any more. When the valve clearances next need done, I'll do it then.
Anyway, the fairing sits well enough on the bike for now, complete with the shorty screen from the other WJ IV (the blue one).
That's a Koito 7" headlamp in there, replacing the awful sealed beam. The Koitos were fitted as standard to Mitsubishi Pajeros / Shoguns of the late 80s, and are reckoned to be one of the best H4 headlamps around, and for extremely small money, too, which suits me fine. Initial beam tests with it show it to be fine, but not had it out in the dark yet.
I've enabled the amber running lamps, but seperately switched, so they'll only be on when I want them to be. There will be a white LED DRL doing that job, and two auxiliary 7" hi/low headlamps, one either side of the fairing, for serious illumination. Those will have Hella units and contain a couple of cheep 'n cheerful LEDs to start with, but will be replaced with more upscale (and better controlled) LED bulbs later.
Three or four times the standard amount of light for no more than the original power consumption of the single headlamp, and none of that crappy eye-adjustment nonsense needed when going from main to dip. That's always something that's bugged me - dropping from a good high beam output to a relatively crappy low beam of one lamp. Who needs that?
The lowers are from an unknown source, but they're identical to the Pantera ones that came with that fairing. They needed a bit of trimming, but will fit ok, once I drill a couple of new holes and get new well nuts from ebay.
Another step in the Vetterisation of Emily (I don't name my bikes, that's just for effect).
Finally got the WJ IV fitted, only to discover an annoying slight unsymmetry in the bracket and / or fairing. It's only obvious in the spacing twixt fairing and fuel tank, but it might be the bike the bracket came from was laid down and the bracket pushed over to the left a bit. It will do for now though, and I simply am not going to take it off and mess around with it any more. When the valve clearances next need done, I'll do it then.
Anyway, the fairing sits well enough on the bike for now, complete with the shorty screen from the other WJ IV (the blue one).
That's a Koito 7" headlamp in there, replacing the awful sealed beam. The Koitos were fitted as standard to Mitsubishi Pajeros / Shoguns of the late 80s, and are reckoned to be one of the best H4 headlamps around, and for extremely small money, too, which suits me fine. Initial beam tests with it show it to be fine, but not had it out in the dark yet.
I've enabled the amber running lamps, but seperately switched, so they'll only be on when I want them to be. There will be a white LED DRL doing that job, and two auxiliary 7" hi/low headlamps, one either side of the fairing, for serious illumination. Those will have Hella units and contain a couple of cheep 'n cheerful LEDs to start with, but will be replaced with more upscale (and better controlled) LED bulbs later.
Three or four times the standard amount of light for no more than the original power consumption of the single headlamp, and none of that crappy eye-adjustment nonsense needed when going from main to dip. That's always something that's bugged me - dropping from a good high beam output to a relatively crappy low beam of one lamp. Who needs that?
The lowers are from an unknown source, but they're identical to the Pantera ones that came with that fairing. They needed a bit of trimming, but will fit ok, once I drill a couple of new holes and get new well nuts from ebay.