Flick Of The Switch
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:28 pm
Since the tank is off I figured it might be a good time to pull off the upper triple clamp and look into dismantling and cleaning the igniton switch. That was the idea but the upper clamp does not want to come off. Maybe a gear puller would help but I'll consider that a last resort.
Sometimes the switch would take a bit of jiggery pokey to get the bike to light up. Whether a new 5-wire repro from ebay would be any better than a cleaned up 30 year old OEM part is open to debate. For now I'll make do with cleaning the connector for the ignition switch.
The spades are not quite as bad as they look in the pic but there is a bit of greenery growing there.
Since a little cleanup up and shoving the connector back together firmly the switching has been quite reliable so far.
I'm getting less than 1 ohm resistance across the switched power terminals so that will be ok for a while. The ignition switch is held on with shear bolts so the upper clamp would still have to come off one way or another. I'll let some squirts of Inox work their magic and try again some other time.
Sometimes the switch would take a bit of jiggery pokey to get the bike to light up. Whether a new 5-wire repro from ebay would be any better than a cleaned up 30 year old OEM part is open to debate. For now I'll make do with cleaning the connector for the ignition switch.
The spades are not quite as bad as they look in the pic but there is a bit of greenery growing there.
Since a little cleanup up and shoving the connector back together firmly the switching has been quite reliable so far.
I'm getting less than 1 ohm resistance across the switched power terminals so that will be ok for a while. The ignition switch is held on with shear bolts so the upper clamp would still have to come off one way or another. I'll let some squirts of Inox work their magic and try again some other time.