Tony

How tight should the fit be on this part... The silver headlight mount on the black shaft.? My Pax side moves/rotates freely yet the driver side is much stiffer. Hard to tell which way it was designed to be.

My headlight mechanism does work fine though..

Tony

Disregard...

I see now that when it all snaps together it moves as one unit on the torque tube..

dr bob

Right --

That spring and the cam interlock mechanism is what determines how 'free' the headlight bucket is on the yoke.

For those playing along at home... The base of the headlight in Tony's picture rotates away from the camera/ The yoke on the bottom of the pic has a spring and roller that engages a detent on the far (bottom) side of the base when installed. This allows the headlight to release from the crossbar and yoke if there's something obstructing movement towards retracted. With lights off and retracted, you can reach around and pull the headlight upwards one you overcome the force of that spring and the plastic roller.

The retracted position is travel-limited by a stop bolt with a rubber tip on each side, accessible through the front of the wheelhouse by removing the splash shield. Someplace I made a template for the retracted position of the lamps; mine were slightly different from side to side, but there's an optical illusion at work depending on where you look from. The template was the only way to get the two sides to match perfectly. They looked "off" but were really a lot closer than they looked.