Passing Lamp Socket, Tool, Thingy!!!
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Passing Lamp Socket, Tool, Thingy!!!
Alright you shade tree Harley mechanics!
I’m looking for a socket that I can use to loosen the nuts on the passing lamps without cutting the wires. I’ve seen the socket the guys at the HD garage have that has a slot cut up the side in a spiral fashion to allow the socket to rotate with the wire sticking out the side of the socket.
Where can I buy such a socket?
I called the stealer (Cowboy HD) and they want the minimum ½ labor ($40) to slide my passing lamps forward ½”. Their parts department doesn’t sell Harley specific tools which I find odd.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
GG
I’m looking for a socket that I can use to loosen the nuts on the passing lamps without cutting the wires. I’ve seen the socket the guys at the HD garage have that has a slot cut up the side in a spiral fashion to allow the socket to rotate with the wire sticking out the side of the socket.
Where can I buy such a socket?
I called the stealer (Cowboy HD) and they want the minimum ½ labor ($40) to slide my passing lamps forward ½”. Their parts department doesn’t sell Harley specific tools which I find odd.
Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
GG
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Mongo1958 (05-23-2024)
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I picked up a cheap deep socket and cut the side out with a hack saw.
snap on sells on but it expensive.
I don't remember off hand what the size is ..1/2" maybe?
heres a link to snap on
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/tools...e=snapon-store
snap on sells on but it expensive.
I don't remember off hand what the size is ..1/2" maybe?
heres a link to snap on
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/tools...e=snapon-store
Last edited by HarleyWood; 06-26-2009 at 03:58 PM.
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Jim the nut is recessed up in the lamp housing with a wire running through the middle of the nut. It requires a deep socket as there is no way to get a flare nut wrench or crow foot socket up in the housing. The Snap-on flare nut socket ($60 steep for a 9/16" socket) and the modified deep socket the dude on Ebay sells ($15) are the only means of getting a tool on the nut. Unless you want to cut the lamp wire and solder, heat shrink, etc. Which is not that big of a deal but I would rather not cut the wire if don't have to just to adjust the driving lamps.
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