It should worked fine. the reason I had to get another one is that I lost the stock one. A bit of a weird story, but a problem I had with the stock one was that it wouldn't tighten down enough to hold the outer ring properly. The headlight had fallen out a few times after I thought I had gotten it secure. Fortunately, the headlight would just dangle on the wires. But I rewired the headlight and the wires were a bit longer and the light came off one day up on the Crest and came loose from the wires. I didn't realize it was even gone until we got to Newcomb's, but a couple of people were behind us and pulled in there and told me they'd seen it come off and more or less where it was. so Jack and I back tracked a few miles and found the bits. The Tribar headlight and ring were smashed. All the W clips were gone, so we did look for them where the stuff had gone off the road, and actually found a few of them. The clip had also unscrewed itself completely. We didn't find that.
After I got some new ones I starting digging in to what the problem really was. The problem was the casting in the nacelle was thick enough that the clip would wedge itself on the casting and not go up into the lip of the rim far enough.
I ground the casting down to give the clip more clearance and had no more problems. You might want to look at the clearance you have with yours, but I've never heard of anyone else having a problem, so maybe it was just my bike.
Just looked at Jim's post. I guess he had the problem, too. I tried bending mine, but it still wasn't quite enough
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