In panic mode over Custom Lighting

[rickyboy]

Well it's only "three more sleeps" till "midge" and I hit the road and head for Custer.....I go to get on the bike last night to leave for work and notice one of my LED run/turn/brake lights is out. I give the lens a tap and it flickers,....I remove the lens thinking it must be loose. WRONG ! The cluster is "hanging by a thread"... of the wire, at the base of the cluster. So now what?? ??? Can it be fixed? Not enough wire where it broke to do a splice. ::) So into the car to go to work....no time to try and fix it. I search the net {on Co. time} for somewhere locally to purchase a new one. No luck. I get home at 2:00 AM from work and immediately try to dig out what remaining wire there is, sealed in the back of the cluster. The box knife slips and I slice open my index finger of my left hand. This is not looking good now. Oh, and the blood is gushing almost, from the tip of my finger. I try and power away at the job with blood running through my fingers and onto the light. Finally I get some wire where I can try and solder the wires back together. {Try and solder two wires together by yourself with a paper towel wrapped around your index finger and your thumb applying pressure to try and stop the bleeding } I had to leave it there because I doubt my neighbors want to hear my bike fire up at what is now 2:45 AM.
I better call it quits till the morning, and get this finger bandaged and me into my bed. Now all I can think about is,...if this splicing doesn't work,...how am I going to get a light shipped to me at my US address { I live in Canada } by the time I'm suppose to leave on Thursday. Without it I can't go. :(" title="" border="0"/> So I call Custom Dynamics this morning at 7:00 AM and tell them my dilemma. No problem they tell me. They'll over-night it and it'll be there tomorrow. Now I have to trust that they send the correct light. Oh and so I don't get caught like this again, I better order 2 frt. amber ones and two red rears. Just so I have replacements, in case it does. So,....after $153.39 I should be good to go. $50.00 to over-night the lights. But hooray for Custom Dynamics for making it right. .......as long as they send the right lights. No sleep again tonight worrying if #1 the light get here tomorrow and
#2 that they're the right ones.
Wish me luck. Or You'll be sending me pictures of the rally. :'(
Now I'll go and see if the splice job worked...it's 8:10 time to wake the neighbors up. .........well the splice job didn't work... ???
But now another problem.....the frt. ambers don't come on. I started the bike and no amber lights or any run/turn/brake at the back end. The stock tail light works. And if I turn the signals on, they all flash except the broken tail light as emergency flashers. Not something they ever did before. What could have happened. I haven't touched the wiring in any way. Could it be just because I have a light out in the rear??? Must be...any ideas??? I'd appreciate hearing them.