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[RedDevil]

I have a small gap between the bulb and the trim ring too...will be a nice place to catch bugs this summer...on my 02, it fit snug and I had the new dual bulb, like the SEUC, on it, all I did was remove the stock trim ring and mounted the new one in it's place.
Cheers ,
Red

[SPIDERMAN]

Brian, I tried mounting it solo.  Even tried it with a couple of different insulators thrown in.  With the original single bulb housing that was my solution.  But with the dual bulb housing the damn thing just wouldn't mount successfully that way.  The mount plate/ring/thing is significantly different from the predecessor part.  Just won't play that way.

I've got an HID headlight, spose that makes a difference ?

[Twolanerider]

I've got an HID headlight, spose that makes a difference ?

I dunno Brian.  I had it back off the red bike again this afternoon to adjust the headlights a bit.  This time when it went back on was one of its better fittings.  Some days you could convince that the cheap-ass metal ring is stretching and contracting all on its own just to mess with me.

[Chief]

I posted this a year ago on another thread. Put the trim ring on the headlight WITHOUT the stock one under it. What you do is leave the headlight bucket just a little bit lose and then tuck the visor in behind it. Put a small washer on either side of the nut at the bottom. It's a one person job with no hassle at all. I mounted one on Elvis in this fashion about 16,000 miles and it hasn't come loose, or even rattled. Honestly, I don't know why you guys believe just because it says something in the tech sheet that comes with the part, that it's gospel. Me and Beags concluded a Long Long time ago, that the H-D Tech Writers are sadisctic evil people. 

B B

B B,

I got my new trim rings today, and have been futzing around with them for a good bit, trying to find the best way to put them on. Your method proved to be the best I have found. It's pretty tight, but not quite as tight as it is with the OEM trim piece in place. I may try and snug the screws from the inside when the fairing is off here soon.

As for the running gap between the lens and the trim ring... it's just as bad, if not worse, with the new visor trim ring than it was with the older, non-visor, model. The problem is the newer headlight bucket holds the lens assembly about 1/4" closer to the fairing than the older models. I may try to come up with a spacer to put behind the headlight bucket to make the lens fit further forward and actually get close to the surface of the trim ring.

The bottom gap.... When I took the factory trim ring off, I placed it inside the new trim ring, and there is no way possible to get the rear of the new trim ring to get closer than 1/4 because both pieces have just about the same OD, although one is supposed to go over the other. Brilliant design work guys!

The end result looks better with the new visors, but anyone who hasn't done this before would look at the headlight and say, "Dude, something ain't right. Why you got such a big gap there?"

Chief

Added photo. Gap is small and that is a #2 pencil between the lens and the trim ring.

[SEULTRA]

BB has the answer that worked for him. Mine still has the gap. I'm gonna try his method one more time to see if I can get that ill designed POS to fit with no gap. I may try a Kuryakyn visor instead if that doesn't work.