Springer head light question

[Robert Luland]

Do some one here a picture of how the springer head light lens and reflector retaining spring are installed. I searched my WL, Knuckle and Panhead factory manuals and no where does it address this issue. Thanks, Bob L

[46EL]

And I thought I was the only person who could not figure out how to install them? I have a small pile of those little buggers on a shelf here. Every Cycleray I ever took apart that had them never got them reinstalled.

[Robert Luland]

Theres got to be somebody out there thats got the ansewer! Chris your deliberately torturing me!

[Chris Haynes]

Theres got to be somebody out there thats got the ansewer! Chris your deliberately torturing me!

Geeze, Am I the only guy here with a camera?

[Robert Luland]

I knew that. I was only testing ya. lol. I never would have figured that out with out that picture. That was the one place I didn’t check. Am I safe to assume that their only purpose is to keep the lens and reflector from vibrating? Bob L

[Chris Haynes]

Am I safe to assume that their only purpose is to keep the lens and reflector from vibrating? Bob L

Yup.......

[len dowe]

Bob, i always install them. I think that they hold the lens in tight and keeps the bezel from wondering. They are tricky to get in and set right and there is indents on the glass lens to where they should go. Len

[parkerize]

if you find clips hard to install, just bend them until and they will "snap" right in tight

[Sargehere]

Inspired by this thread, and having an installed Cycleray® whose lens I resorted to even trying to silicone-"glue" in place (didn't work!) I called around (first call, ackshully) and found that you can buy the clips from Old Dude, for $7.50 each. Seemed a little steep for simple spring-wire clips, but hey, they're the right things. I found ya need three, counting the recesses on the back of the lens.
There are three appropriate indents in the back edge of the Cycleray® lens, and found one at the very top, one at 4 o'clock and one at 8 o'clock, snapped in sort of like Chris's photo. The center rectangle of each clip fits behind the lens, holding it in and forming a sub-assembly.





Then, reinstalled in the bucket and against the rubber gasket around the edge of the reflector, the whole headlight goes back together the way it was intended by the Guide® engineers.







I was pretty pleased with the result. For the first time, my Cycleray® lens is centered in the "door" (rim) and doesn't rotate around from vibration. So, thanx, guyz!
It's a repop lens, I'm sure, but it says "Cycleray" across the bottom of it. I could care less what the little molding numbers (that you can't even see, assembled) are.

[tomcat1]

Tagged so I can find this again quickly.

[23JDCA 808]

Looks like my 1958 Vespa headlight. Good times.