Okay, I went cheap. I just could NOT see $750 for the Road Glide HD LED Daymaker headlamps assembly.
This is the lumen rating on the LED headlight assembly I bought.
Luminous flux : High Beam 45w x 2 - 90w, 3600LM x 2 - 7200LM, Low Beam 30w x 2 - 60w, 2400LM x 2 - 4800LM
I found the lumen spec on the HD unit, and they are the same as the one I bought. I saw many on eBay that had the same high beam lumens, but the low beams were only 1600L.
I paid $169.99 for mine with free shipping. I figured that I couldn't to too far wrong at that price.
Here's what I started with.
This is the new one on top and my original H4 unit on the bottom.
Here's what came with the kit. The rag is clean, just stained. I never throw anything away, just keep cleaning and reusing.
The two round plastic sleeves go over the two center mounted studs on the back of the aluminium housings. This is incorporated into the metal bracket that adds support to the headlight bucket because they are about twice the weight of the original unit.
The long curved tool at the top is from Kent Moore tool company that supplies tools to automotive dealerships etc. I had this for many decades and finally found a good use for it when I bought the '09 SERG. With a ground down socket on the end, I can just slide it on the two lower adjuster pins and adjust the vertical/side to side beam adjustment.
Here is the new LED unit installed in the fairing. You can see the two plastic sleeves on the two aluminium studs in the middle.
Here is one half of the steel support on the inside. The top hole and the middle hole are transferred onto the plastic for drilling. I should remind everyone here that there are NO instructions with this and you're left on your own to figure out where all the parts end up going. The part with the two studs goes on the front of the fairing.
Here is the front part with the studs through the holes I drilled.
Here's the two steel parts bolted in place.
I will say that hindsight is 20/20. When I installed the brackets, I should have moved them up a bit, but where they are seemed to be a neutral positioning and that's why I drilled it there. BUT... the two catch mounts on the bike that hook into the fairing slots are partially blocked by the steel upper "T" areas. I had to remove the inside part and cut upward a bit to allow full access to the slots in the fairing. I could NOT get the fairing to snap into place.
Also the wiring ends on the LED's were a bit bulkier that the original wiring. I found that they would hang down in the way of the fairing upon installation. So I looped a piece of chalk line around the two leads and held them up into the empty space. Another thing to do is to tighten the 3-prong headlight plugs a bit. The wiring spades on the new LED unit are thinner and do not grip as well into the 3-prong plugs. I also taped the two together so they could not unplug due to vibration etc.
The adjusters that come with the new kit worked well. But I had to put a little grease on the adjuster threads to get the adjusters to turn easy enough in the plastic fairing retainers.
The headlight bezel was a bit stubborn, but a few good whacks and the four prongs snapped into place.
The only thing is that the new LED assembly sets back into the fairing a LOT more than the original assembly does. The adjusters are threaded in about 1/2" to 3/4" further.
When the beam is "close" to correct, the top of the clear housing lens sticks out a lot through the bezel. At first I had the assembly aligned to that the lens, top to bottom, was about equal. When I turned on the light, it was shinning about 10' up at about 20' away. I had to really thread out the lower adjusters to get the beam down. And this is when I saw the great difference between the top and bottom lens to bezel distances.
I will have to say that the assembly is VERY BRIGHT...
I have a headlight modulator on the bike and I remember Harry said that he could not see me very well when I followed him last May. I tried the modulator on the LED's and it worked.... But not right. On the H4's it would modulate between 50% and 100%. On the LED's, they're either on or off, not in between on these babies...
It looked cool and there's no way someone would miss the on/off of the low beams, but it looked very much like a cop bike and I felt that if the cops saw they would write me up as impersonating a cop. So I took out the modulator and hope that being a LOT brighter now will be good enough.
All in all, I think I'll like the new lights. The ES trip will be the proof, I hope.
I hope this helps some of you making a decision on buying or not. So far for $169, I think I got a good deal. There are some in the $149 or a bit cheaper out there, but not at the same low beam lumens as this one.
Let me know if you have any questions and hope to see LOTS of new faces in ES. Ride safe and see you all there!
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