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Switch guts?

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I'm working on my friends GS450L, trying to get the front brake light switch and clutch safety switch working. All of the contacts are there and I can get it to stay engaged or disengaged, but I can't get it to operate when the lever is moved. When he got ht ebike it was in pretty sad shape and some parts were missing so I wouldn't be suprised if something wasn't there that should be. Should there be a little spring or something sitting sideways inside the housing to push the contact back after the lever is released? I've checked all of the diagrams I can find and see nothing.
 
Yes there's a spring in there,keep's the moving part of the switch in contact with the face that the wires are attached to.
Any spring will do as long as it fits.
 
I got a NOS switch kit for it. It had the spring for the contact in it. You'd think it would have had the other one too.
 
From memory ,there is only one spring and it sits behind that moving contact to maintain a bit of pressure, the cut out in the brake lever does the full job of moveing that switch.
 
Repaired mine this weekend.

Repaired mine this weekend.

I repaired mine this weekend using a cut-down ball point pen spring and the head of a stainless steel rivet as the contact. (the old guts were badly corroded). I scraped the contacts on the housing side clean with some emery cloth, assembled the bits, and it works fine.
 
There should be a plastic slide block with a spring in it and a copper contact that goes over the spring and snaps into the plastic slide block then the cover with the wires go underneth held on by two screws.
 
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