Where the spring is attached to the switch on the rear brake lever, pull down on the switch, push it back up, see if rear brake light turns off. In other words, there may be too much tension on the switch. It is controlled by a thread on the switch. But too test it simply relax the tension of the spring by pushing the pin to which the spring is attached, back into the switch and watch to see if the light goes out. Does that make sense? To test the front brake lever switch just pull the two wire clips off the brake switch. That switch is a small squarish thing under the front brake lever. You can see it held on be a screw and the two wires are attached to prongs protruding out towards the middle of your handlebars. You should try the front one first by detaching those two wires. You may need to pull them off with pliers. I forget what the connectors are called - spade and something. With those two wires off see if the brake light goes out. No change, try touching the two wires together (not reconnected to the switch). No change, now go to the rear brake pedal and tinker with that as I described above. Graham
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 4:18 PM Amanda Wurzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Graham... How exactly do I check the brake switch manually? > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 1:18 PM Graham Rogers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If brake light is on all the time with ignition on, check brake switch at >> rear brake lever and front brake lever. Operate them manually to check >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On Mar 25, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Liam O'Leary <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Had a similar issue recently, turned out the turn signal switch was >> dirty inside. Electrical contact spray and some waterproof grease to get >> switch moving freely did the trick. >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> >> On 25 Mar 2019, at 16:26, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Also the turn signal switch could be dirty inside or lining up with >> the wrong contact point. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
