Switch guts?

[snark]

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.

[gspaul]

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.

[snark]

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.

[gspaul]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[rustybronco]

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.

[bwringer]

Does this look familiar?

http://www.crc2onlinecatalog.com/brake_switch.htm

(scroll down -- third item down)

That's probably the stuff you need. At least you can see what it looks like.

Only $9.95, too!