Now you can go to your nearest Suzuki dealer and buy a replacement bulb, which will probably cost $5.00 or more (I'm guessing but they charged me $7.50 for the screw that holds the turn signal stem on and I later found one for 85¢) or you can go to your nearest auto parts store or Wal-Mart and buy one that will work with a slight modification.

The bulb type I used was a "74" which is available about anyplace that carries a selection of automotive bulbs, including Wal-Mart. Total cost was $1.29 for two bulbs. The picture at right shows the package so you can spot it quickly.

Once you have the errant bulb pulled from the socket press in one of your shiny new '74' bulbs. Make sure it seated good. Now here is where you gotta do a little modification. The '74' bulb is slightly larger and it tends to spread the holder slightly. This makes it difficult to get back into the console.

***Disclaimer Follows***
I did this modification, it worked fine. Do this at your own risk. If you do something stupid and get hurt, break your bike or cause some other calamity that's a real shame and I hate that but this is your decision, not mine.


Did I mention I don't care for lawyers much?

When I went to put the bulb back in it didn't really want to go. Close inspection revealed that the '74' bulb made the plastic holder slightly larger. It was real slight but enough that I couldn't get it back in without pushing harder than I really wanted to on that circuit board.

I took (you read that disclaimer above right?) a sharp instrument and trimmed back the edges of the hole slightly, real slight, like on the order of 1/16th inch on both sides. If you click the picture at right you'll get the idea. For obvious reasons you want to be careful doing this. Should that circuit board snap I'm sure it won't cost over $2,000 from the dealer.

Once I got the bulb back in I plugged the instrument cluster into the bike and checked to make sure that the lights worked before I re-installed all the parts. Everything worked fine.

Oh yeah, make sure you put those rubber protectors back on before you completely e-assemble the bike. I didn't so I got some extra practice removing the console.

Happy Ridin'.