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Beachbuell
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 07:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Has anyone had any problems with there stop-lamp switch on the brake lever? I know of someone having problems with the lever switch not activating the brake light. The rear pedal works fine and lights the bulb every time. I think there is a bad connection at the front brake lever switch, because when ya wiggle the bulb it is sporadic and just stopped working all together now.
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Tailspining
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 08:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Spray the switch with WD40.
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Beachbuell
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 08:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Let me re-phrase the question. It is not the "mechanical" switch, but the "electrical" switch. A two prong male connector that clicks into a female connector, just under the switch housing, brake lever side. Thats whats causing the problems, I think. Anyone? Bueller, Bueller........ Ferris?
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Diablobrian
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 09:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

that's what he was talking about spraying.
Probably just dirty electrical contacts.
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Stretchman
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 10:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yeah, I just had that problem. Look under the brake lever, there is a switch under there with a little button that should be protruding from it. When you actuate the brake lever, you should see it move and hear it click. If it is doing that, then pull the connector and jumper it with a piece of wire. If the brake light lights up, then it's the switch. Spraying it with WD40 helped my problem for a day or so, but then it went and left no forwarding address. Got a new one under warranty. Think they're 12 bux to buy. Not sure.

Stretch
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Tailspining
Posted on Sunday, April 30, 2006 - 11:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I had the same problem with my 2005 XB9R after 3 months. I cleaned the switch with contact cleaner and then lubed it with WD40. I order and received a new switch but the old one has been working ever since. I still have the new one ... don't need it.
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Diablobrian
Posted on Monday, May 01, 2006 - 09:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

With a name like beachbuell I'd guess corrosion from salt air is not something
you're unfamiliar with. It's either a little bit of that, or some carbon keeping
the contacts from touching most likely. Do not use flamable solvents to clean
electrical contacts. besides risking fire, you also run the risk of the more
volatile chemicals melting the plastic switch housing. That happens when it does
not evaporate from the inside of the switch fast enough.

FWIW wd-40 is a water dispersant, not a lubricant. That's what wd stands for.
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Captainxb
Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 - 11:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've had an intermittent switch for some time.
If I pull the brake lever in just enough 'til the switch clicked, the light would come on.
But then when I continue to pull the lever all the way in, the brake light goes out.
Other times, the light doesn't come on at all.

I checked the connection to the switch, it is OK. Me-thinks a dodgy switch.

Had enough today, so went to the dealer and had the switch changed over under warranty.
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