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Old 01-30-2010, 01:06 PM
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Changed my headlight out for a larger 1. The new one came with a H4 50-100 watt. After I installed it and soldered the wires and turned it on my low beam looks not real bright and the blue headlight marker come on my dash board. Can't find my owners manual. What does that mean ?
 
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Does the blue light stay on when the high-beam is on, does the high beam light up bright?
 
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desolder and swap the wires, so high beam works with blue marker. same thing happen to mine, wire colors didn't match. also check ground connection, might be loose.
 

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It looks like you've misconnected the wires to the new lamp connector.
Attached you'll find the wiring diagram as it is on my FXD2003:

white wire is high beam, yellow wire is low beam

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Ok its for the high beam indicator.... kinda feel dumb. When I start the bike the blue light is dim and my low beams don't seems to be bright. I hit the high beam switch the blue light brightens and the high beam is great lots of intense light
 
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Got it all fixed the color code given to me by the Tech was all wrong. All is good now
 
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Don't feel dumb, I did the same thing. I had to extend my wiring for the new bucket and got the low beam wiring switched when I connected everything back together. Switched the 2 around and all is good.
 
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Enough about wires. Where are the headlight pics?!?!?!?!?!!?
 
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Enough about wires. Where are the headlight pics?!?!?!?!?!!?
+1....In case you forgot how to do it oldguyalso, here's a link to a write-up on how to add images...

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