I wanted to replacement the front signals with something a little smaller and less fragile. I had concern over replacing them with flush mount or short stalks due to DMV inspections. What I finally decided on was grafting Lockhart Phillips units onto the stalk from the OEM units. The end result was reasonable and meets the goals I had.
This image shows the OEM and the replacement for comparison.
Here is the mess of pieces from my broken signal. I hadn't cut the "extra" portion of the stalk off the broken signal at this point. A hacksaw worked fine on the rubber stalk but takes care to cut neatly. Note that I had to cut the connectors off the unit so I could feed it through the hole in the OEM stalk. A little soldering was done to connect the OEM connectors which made reconnecting to the wiring harness easy.
This shows what I kept from the OEM. First remove the lens cover and take the hard plastic portion on the left off of the rubber stalk. Below, I had already cut the "extra" portion of the rubber stalk off at about the point where it enters the hard plastic lens enclosure.
The basic reassembly is something like below. I did put the black wire protector on but don't show that here. Putting that black cover on was pretty time consuming.
Here is the basic result. A little black gasket sealer was used to join and seal the new unit with the salvaged rubber stalk. It holds together fine and the gasket sealer matches the fairly matte black of the rubber stalk portions.
Here is a comparison of OEM to the grafted result. It looks slightly better on the bike. Using the OEM portion at the fairing prevents needing to find a way to cover the rest of the opening (that would not be covered by the new unit by itself) which would likely be somewhat difficult.
[Edit 2014/02/25] Took a couple quick pictures of the end result.
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