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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	1939 Ford Tail Light 10/03/05 at 16:23:17 Hey folks, Thinking about spending $16 for this to bolt to the bottom of my metal seat. We have a 12 V - ground system right? I mean, usually the negative is ground, and suzuki didn't do anything silly here, right? thanks, K
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Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light
Reply #1 - 10/03/05 at 16:48:01

vroom1776 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:

Hey folks,

Thinking about spending $16 for this http://www.jcwhitney.com/wcsstore/jcwhitney/images/imagecache/10026582.gif;pv... to bolt to the bottom of my metal seat.

We have a 12 V - ground system right? I mean, usually the negative is ground, and suzuki didn't do anything silly here, right?

thanks,

K

it's a 12 v neg ground, black wire with white stripe is ground everywhere on bike, i run a 50 international taillight

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PerrydaSavage Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Riding "The Rock"! Posts: 3522 Republic of Newfoundland Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #2 - 10/04/05 at 03:17:57 That tail light is sweet! Please post pics when you have the mod completed.
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Richard Amirault Guest	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #3 - 10/04/05 at 05:05:15 It does not matter if it is positive or negative ground ... it's a light bulb Richard in Boston, MA, USA
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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #4 - 10/04/05 at 07:11:58 good point... however, if I were careless and bought something with a diode in it... pffft! What's that nasty smell? I will post pics... eventually. Don't forget, though, this is going on the bottom of my metal seat, not the stock fender... maybe I'll lay it on the fender and take a shot or two for you creative folks...
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #5 - 10/05/05 at 01:50:14 Here a picture of my future tail/brake and licence plate light. All LED's. Fits excactly under the rear fender and will replace the OEM taillight Will post pics when installed. Greetz Kropatchek
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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #6 - 10/05/05 at 08:13:51 I bet that'll look pretty good. Where'd you find that one?
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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #7 - 10/06/05 at 01:11:55 Guys, how about this, on the sissybar? On the sissybar, as a second - high level brake light. This as a fender-mounted taillight And these as side-taillights with indicators on stalks What say? Maurizio PS Sorry for the huge size, on Holden's website they are much smaller Front light project coming up...
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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #8 - 10/06/05 at 05:58:46 I like the fender lamp.
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Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light
Reply #9 - 10/06/05 at 10:39:58

For the 'stoplight', it is a Miller's Replica, you can find it at www.motocycle.co.uk in their online catalogue, under 'taillights'

For the MGA taillight and the dual indicator-cum-sidelamp, it's www.holden.co.uk, which is the parent company to 'motocycle' and has a link to it.

If you explore their catalogues, you'll see what 'British motoring' is all about - they are extremely fond of the days from the '30s to the '60s, much more than we'd think. You can find headlights with built-in ammeters, mirrors to clip in the end of the handlebars, miniature instruments and mechanical gauges (copper capillaries instead of copper wires) 8)

No, I do not worlk for them, but I really really think they have an absolutely SUPER line of items! Roll Eyes

I'm looking at the 2.5" tacho by Smiths, almost 100$ new shipped, but it's the original item from the original '60s...

Again, I apologize for the super size, why is it that it comes 4 times the size ?

Maurizio

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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: 1939 Ford Tail Light Reply #10 - 10/06/05 at 11:27:08 The board has a default image display size. There is code you can insert to specify the size you prefer but I don't know it off the top of my head. I know Mambo gave an example in a thread a couple of weeks ago.
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