Gear change light

[Guest]

Hello fellow GS owners,
Have looked in search and cannot seem to find the answer I am looking for? All the lights are working on the clocks, (1977 GS750) and the gear position indicator works 1-5 up and down with no apparent problem, except when in neutral and neutral light is on, the gear indicator is showing number 1 I am assuming it is some sort of connection issue or some other problem?
As usual thank you for your help in these problems!

Little wagon
GS750 90% finished lol

[bwringer]

If it's in 1st gear, does neutral light up? If not, I suspect it's not electrical.

Here's a WAG: I don't remember offhand how the GS750 gauges are set up, but if 1 and neutral are near each other I suspect you're simply leaking light from the neutral light "chamber" into the 1 chamber. The neutral light bulb is much brighter than the gear light bulb, so you might not notice it going the other way.

Again, this is just a guess and may have little or no basis in reality...

[tkent02]

The 750 has only one position for all the gear numbers, it's one of those digital figure eight LED things where they just light up the different segments to make different numbers. The neutral light is in a separate little chamber, I think but not sure it's in the next spot up from the numbers so could be light leaking, except he's saying the number one is lighting up. It takes electricity to light up an LED.

I'd look at something around the switch itself or the associated wiring. The neutral wire is a separate blue wire, the gear positions run through a six pin harness, but inside the switch they are close together. Could be some chunk of something conductive got in there.