Headlight mount for dunstall fairing

[Bribribri]

Hello.
How does one mount the headlight inside a dunstall fairing?
There are three holes around the headlight opening. Is it supposed to be used with the full shell or just the reflector? If someone have experience to share about these questions I would be grateful!
Thanks!
/D

 

[jimbo]

this is how the headlights are mounted in a John Player Norton, basically they took a shell and cut it about 2" away from the headlight flange. And then fabbed up some angle brackets and springs

 

[kommando]

That looks very like how these same headlamp units were fitted to some cars, so worth looking at Lucas car headlamp mounts of the same period.

 

[jimbo]

And matters what type of Dunstall fairing it is. My 850 had a complete headligfht shell mounted. But early ones did not

 

[dave M]

Jimbo, my 750 has the earlier fairing which is less angular in look than yours, it also has the dashboard with instruments mounted in that. my headlight mount is identical to yours in the photos you posted.

 

[jimbo]

Jimbo, my 750 has the earlier fairing which is less angular in look than yours, it also has the dashboard with instruments mounted in that. my headlight mount is identical to yours in the photos you posted.

that's from a 68 Dunstall Commando I sold

 

[o0norton0o]

I have a later dunstall fairing mounted that is bigger than the little bullet style, early race fairings.. Needless to say, I did my homework on them..

Here's a beautiful early model one that I liked and saved this picture when I was doing the research for my fairing project. This bike belonged to one of our Aussie brothers here, and as I recall, he got into an accident with this beauty and it was totalled. I'm not sure if he's still here and I forgot who's bike it was, but it's a beauty.

Being a larger size person, that fairing wouldn't cover my nutsack...so as beautiful as it is, I went with a bigger late model version... below. I wasn't going to mount clip on bars because I don't want to ride in that position, so I just went with my 30 wide BMW bars with a pair of 1-1/4" offset brackets... It kind of works ok. The fairing is a little higher for clearance for the bars so I cut the windshield down a bit to balance it out to get the amount of coverage I wanted.

You can see it's a totally different application than the early one.....

My original mounting bracket was a "unicorn" shaped single arm bolted to the steering head that ended in a "T" which bolted to the underside of the "dashboard" of the fairing. That didn't work for me because it blocked my view of the ammeter that I have mounted in the headlight and the headlight switch (70 model has an ammeter which I mounted in the headlight shell) I took the unicorn arm of the mounting bracket and cut it short and made it into a fork to go around the headlight shell so I could see the ammeter and the top of the headlight with the switch and lights. In my case the headlight just bolts to the fairing, and no longer to the forks. I eventually modified that so the headlight was also mounted to the headstock bracket, so I could unbolt the fairing completely and the headlight would still be connected to the fairing bracket instead of hanging by the wire harness when the fairing is removed

the stock under the tank mounted lower arm brackets are crap IMO... I made my own bracket that is rubber mounted to the down tubes and supports the lower arms of the fairing... It's rock solid. You can see the rubber lined "U" bolts on my down tubes in the picture and maybe see the arms (they are painted black so hard to see)

here's the modified forked bracket picture below. You weld a piece of flat steel on the bracket top and use double nuts and custom made nylon bushings to adjust the fairing height so it sits level and squarely where you want it. You can also buy fairing brackets too... (google is your friend)

 

[acadian]

Not much work to make up a bracket, I use this style on three bikes with fairings

 

[Bribribri]

Thanks guys!
I have the early fairing so I have to make something up from your information!

 

[o0norton0o]

With the low, race style fairing, you almost certainly must use clip on handlebars and install rear set foot pegs and controls.

I use the dunstall reproduction rear sets that Don Pender makes and sells. They are really nice IMO. He might also sell clip on handlebars, I'm not sure...

Here's his website below

tritonmotorcycleparts.com

 

[dave M]

I think the early Dunstall fairing was designed with drum brakes in mind. If you have a disc and keep the original master cylinder you will have to mount your clip-on handlebars lower on the fork tubes, or else the fluid reservoir is obstructed by the bottom of the tachometer on left lock, when using the dashboard/ fairing mount. I fitted one of Donald Pender's master cylinders (which accommodates the original Lucas switch-gear) and this allowed me to have the clip ons at maximum height on the fork tubes, I find this much more ergonomic for an old codger of 70. It is the best bike in the world to ride for exactly 11 minutes, then I have to dismount and hail a taxi to my chiropractor, but I do love it.

 

[Bribribri]

It’s a 69 so drum it is!