There is a handy product for temporary rubber lubrication called P-80. It would make your grommet installation slick and easy. The two positions on the light switch are intended for the pilot light only on the first click, (middle), then second click, (right) is for the head light. In England, the wiring was such that the pilot light and tail light (also the gauges if I recall correctly) would come on with the ignition off and key removed. The headlight would not come on with the ignition off. The pilot light system served as parking lights if parked on an unlit street at night. This was/is a law in England. I'm not 100% certain, but I think that some US market bikes were wired so that the pilot light system only operated with the ignition on. Soldering on the bullet connectors runs the risk of making the wiring brittle behind the bullet, which can easily break later. Crimping Lucas bullets or better yet, going to the Japanese style crimp on bullet connectors doesn't melt insulation or send solder creeping down the wire too far. Fun to watch the father and son team working together!
Yes most of our other Triumphs and Nortons the lights work that way but all of those have a 4 position ignition switch and we tried getting this headlight switch to do that but no matter which way we hooked the wires or ohmed the terminals it wouldn't switch them separately so the aftermarket switch is not the correct one for this year range so we left it this way until we investigate other switches. We should've talked about that and you are absolutely correct in how it should be operating.
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There is a handy product for temporary rubber lubrication called P-80. It would make your grommet installation slick and easy. The two positions on the light switch are intended for the pilot light only on the first click, (middle), then second click, (right) is for the head light. In England, the wiring was such that the pilot light and tail light (also the gauges if I recall correctly) would come on with the ignition off and key removed. The headlight would not come on with the ignition off. The pilot light system served as parking lights if parked on an unlit street at night. This was/is a law in England. I'm not 100% certain, but I think that some US market bikes were wired so that the pilot light system only operated with the ignition on. Soldering on the bullet connectors runs the risk of making the wiring brittle behind the bullet, which can easily break later. Crimping Lucas bullets or better yet, going to the Japanese style crimp on bullet connectors doesn't melt insulation or send solder creeping down the wire too far. Fun to watch the father and son team working together!
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Yes most of our other Triumphs and Nortons the lights work that way but all of those have a 4 position ignition switch and we tried getting this headlight switch to do that but no matter which way we hooked the wires or ohmed the terminals it wouldn't switch them separately so the aftermarket switch is not the correct one for this year range so we left it this way until we investigate other switches. We should've talked about that and you are absolutely correct in how it should be operating.