Disassembled the headlight assembly to see why they both stopped working.
First thing I noticed was that somehow one of the bulbs got so hot that it melted a bit of the plastic part of the headlight housing. Still usable though, just gonna have to dremel out the melted plastic and epoxy the metal part that the bulb seats into, and we should be good to go.
So the next thing is the condition of the actual bulbs- one of them is all black and **** from having gotten so hot and melting ****, the other one looks absolutely perfectly fine. However, neither of them wants to light up. I don't know what could have happened in the week span from last Saturday, but both headlights were working (although one of them was a lot dimmer, like usual), but now both of them are blown out and one of them even overheated. I don't know when the overheating happened or what the hell is the deal, but I all I can do is get new bulbs and see how it goes. So I ordered a pair of Tusk 35W (60W output) lights off of Rocky Mountain, along with a pair of 2012 Fox gloves for $20 and some Spider Grips (my grips are pathetic right now). So that should be in on Thursday, a nice little package for only around $60.
Since I can't do anything about my headlights right now, I decided to take some ****** Brillo pads (I don't have any steel wool without soap in it... oh well), and start working on my header pipe, which I'm tired of looking rusty and ****. I was only able to get to where the first heat guard is (I have to figure out how I'm gonna get those heat guard screws out... it's not gonna be easy), but ******* does it look wayyyy better than before. I couldn't believe that I actually saw my header pipe shining in the light for the first time in my life. Some of the rust won't come off, and some of it I can't get to with just Brillo pads, but I was able to get all the rest of the rust off of the first third of the header pipe, and I can't believe I didn't do this before. It looks far from brand new, but it doesn't look like it's about to crumble into a pile of rust anymore. Can't believe I didn't do this sooner. I'm excited to do the rest of the pipe.
