Taillight housing

Any thoughts on a replacement taillamp assembly for a P11? My P11 only has the wiring taped off. No housing, electrical, etc.

A lot of people are saying that the new LED kits don't work on old brit bikes because of the positive ground electrical.

You wanting OEM? https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-NORTON-P11-RANGER-REAR-TAIL-LIGHT-ASSEMBLY-/142702618437 (price is a little high for my tastes)

I'm going with a generic bobber tail light on mine. Let some future owner worry about getting the correct one, which frankdamp says will fall off anyway.

They are a bit cheaper here

https://www.classicbikeshop.co.uk/norton-p11-750-matchless-g85-tail-light-housing.html

Cheers,

cliffa.

I feel compelled to point out that I am pretty sure that niether of these options is actually correct for a P11, but rather for the later Rangers. There are loads of people on here who will know for sure.

Junglebiker said:

I feel compelled to point out that I am pretty sure that niether of these options is actually correct for a P11, but rather for the later Rangers. There are loads of people on here who will know for sure.

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The cast taillight is correct for both P11A and Ranger 750. The sheetmetal taillight assembly was only used on the high pipe '67 P11.

Junglebiker said:

You wanting OEM? https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-NORTON-P11-RANGER-REAR-TAIL-LIGHT-ASSEMBLY-/142702618437 (price is a little high for my tastes)

I'm going with a generic bobber tail light on mine. Let some future owner worry about getting the correct one, which frankdamp says will fall off anyway.

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Totally down for a generic taillamp assembly. I hear that the LED ones don't play nice with British electrics. Are you buying a generic assembly with just a regular bulb? If so, I'd like to see your choice.

I hadn't actually decided on which one I was going to use yet. I bought a selection of different ones off of eBay a while back to use on various projects. So far one has ended up on an old XL250S I built for a friend, and it looks good on there. I really feel like it's hard to go wrong, though of course the purists will object. If you can live with that, then the world is your clam. Just searching eBay for "bobber tail light" will get you thousands of results like these:

(this is the one I put on the XL250S--I think the one I got came with a standard incandescent bulb in it): https://www.ebay.com/itm/12V-Round-...=item3f7c35c2e2:g:3jAAAOSwDiBZEpEN:rk:19:pf:0

(I have one of these--it definitely came with an incandescent bulb in it): https://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorcycle...674946?hash=item2f1048e282:g:UogAAOSw9xJcA6jK

(I also have one fo these, can't remember what bulb mine has in it): https://www.ebay.com/itm/LED-Red-Re...855154&hash=item2ccd7b780b:g:FVQAAOSwt7pXMtCg

YES! These are all cheap cinese tat! But they are lightweight and inexpensive, so less likely to make your fender crack and easy to replace if they fall off.

I have also considered making a tail light out of an old MAG light--it can be done, but it's a little complicated. Mine is about 90% done, I have no idea what I'm going to put it on--it was more a case of "I wonder if I could make this dead MAG light into a tail light...."

Lots of discussion on this topic here: https://www.accessnorton.com/NortonCommando/positive-ground-with-negative-ground-lights.23690/