Help finding headlight assembly replacement

[Force4000]

Hello all,

I am in a bit of a pickle here. I realized this past weekend my headlight assembly was wobbling on the trail so took her apart and found the plastic bracket that mounts to the metal bar is broken. I can not find a replacement part for the life of me. Its a 2006 Apex RTX. This is what is damaged:



you can see the back part that the bolt mounts to is not there. The only part I can find online to replace this with is this but this looks like the assembly above whats broken. Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yamaha-Apex...-15-/391033968984?hash=item5b0b70d958&vxp=mtr

 

[darv]

have to buy a new head light pod from yamaha our you can find a use one from parts barn he is a TY er on here that's the only thing you can do.

 

[Yamadog]

I had to make mounts for several over the years I made them out of heavy sheat metal and ponded them to the pod. I used JB weld and several small sheet metal screws into waht was left of those tabs to hold it till the glue set.

I also replaced the bolts with the white nylon ones so if I rolled it again the bolts broke first. My X was hell on wheels (skis) and flipped or rolled 3 of them.

 

[Force4000]

Thanks for the reply's. I am going to attempt to make my own bracket to replace it with before I spend the money on a new assembly. I will post pictures if I have success.

 

[RTX]

I might be wrong but i think someone on this site offers a repair kit for this issue.
Betheviper?
Hibishman?
Barnofparts ?

 

[engineman]

Yes - Check out BOP - pretty simple and cheap fix....

 

[Jonesynl]

Few pictures of the ones i made.

 

[Lonerider]

I use a piece of nylon plastic from a old kitchen cutting board to repair them. Cut it about 1/2" thick and in a 3 inch triangle shape, fit it in-between broken piece on light mount, used 3 very small 1/8 nut & bolts to attach, used 1/4 inch nut & bolt to attach to existing metal light mounting bracket. Also added plastic weld epoxy ( $8 from auto zone, ) to fill in gapes around it to make it solid. Very strong repair,

 

[Force4000]

Thanks for the advice guys ended up taking everyones advice and made this little sheet metal bracket. Ended up costing about 3.50 for a steel hardware!

 

[RTX]

Just wondering
Those of you that have busted this part, did it just break over time from vibration??
I have 13000 hard miles on my apex with no issues with the headlight tabs, but it seems like a lot of people have broke them

 

[Jonesynl]

It's from rolling over that's how I broke mine

 

[Force4000]

Mine was just from aggressive riding. I can tell you though that in WI sometimes the trails are... terrible.

 

[thor452]

all ours were from roll overs or some kind of contact with a hard object to the head light pod.

 

[actionjack]

Thanks for the advice guys ended up taking everyones advice and made this little sheet metal bracket. Ended up costing about 3.50 for a steel hardware!

Bingo. I couldn't find any photos I had, but I made something very similar years back for my 06 GT from a framing hanger I had laying around in the garage.