That's another of the many "normal but sucks" items from the MoCo. There is no gasket, therefore the lens is not water tight. If you adjust the light tilted down enough to allow the water to drain back out, it tends to affect the visibility of the turn signals. Eventually heat from the bulbs will dry everything out, but as noted in one of the previous posts the yellow coating on the cheap bulbs will quickly peel from this. If you buy good bulbs with amber glass as opposed to the cheap coating, that problem will be eliminated. Then all you have to worry about is corrosion of the bulb socket and the bulb base. A really liberal coating of dielectric grease will help there.
You could try a little clear silicone sealer (a really tiny bead on the lens to housing joint). That would also work to help keep the lens from falling off when the little locking tabs break (ask a parts guy how many of these lenses they sell for that reason), but don't get so carried away that you can't get the lens off to replace a bulb later on.
BTW, also check for moisture in the actual housing behind the bulb and reflector. The housing also isn't exactly water tight where the wires enter the housing. Once again, a little clear silicone sealer comes to the rescue.
It used to be that you needed to carry baling wire to reinstall the parts that fell off a Harley; now you need a tube of clear silicone sealant instead. If you do it neatly, looks a lot better than baling wire. Who says there hasn't been any progress at H-D?
Jerry
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