front brake light switch issues

[Hakamisu]

Something I want to do.

[gk45011]

Brake light switch

I think I read in a thread on here that if you bypass your clutch safety switch the parts from the lever can then be used on the brake side. My brake side appears to be faulty but my clutch side is as it should be.
Can anyone give the official yes or no on this?

Thanks,
Gary

[Roostabunny]

For what it's worth, I learned the hard way not to try opening up the switch assembly in a grassy area, but I was able to carefully fabricate replacements for the lost parts with some thin copper sheet and the trimmed down spring from a ball point pen.

It was a pain (especially to reassemble before I figured out how to add tiny retaining tabs to my tiny copper "U") but it was free and has served for multiple years since.

[gk45011]

For what it's worth, I learned the hard way not to try opening up the switch assembly in a grassy area, but I was able to carefully fabricate replacements for the lost parts with some thin copper sheet and the trimmed down spring from a ball point pen.

It was a pain (especially to reassemble before I figured out how to add tiny retaining tabs to my tiny copper "U") but it was free and has served for multiple years since.

Copy the exploding parts warning. I have never opened up either of the lever controls. If it gets attempted I wil have to see if Steve will oversee while he is over.

Gary

[Jocalopse]

I always figure it's good practice to act as those everything is going to explode in some manner that will make it impossible to put together. And they always include one part that does one of many things, it either does not actually fit into the thing you took apart so is impossible to get back in, serves no purpose other than making reassembly nearly impossible or is completely invisible until everything is reassembled and reinstalled then it mysteriously appears in your right hand out of nowhere, this last one is usually the most crucial part to the whole mechanism but unfathomably the easiest to look over.

just had two GSXR brake light switches not work for me when I installed the master cylinder on the EFE. ONe from a '89 GSXR110, one from a '98 GSXR750, both of which I know for certain worked the last time I laid eyes on them, wondering if there is some sort of voltage difference used at the switchgear between these years.

[Gorminrider]

heres another way to catch the parts.

Tape a sandwich baggies on each siide of the switch..like to the swich box housing or whatever..as long as the switch itself is inside the bag. Now poke the screw driver thru the bag to take out the screws, cap, and the pin thing that contains the U shaped contact.

To hold it into the handle when reassembling, dab a spot of grease on the tip and stick it up inti the recess..it will stick there and not free fall back to the floor!!

...now HERE's a good tip that bears repeating!