Indicator Switch Thingy

[tape]

Question to all you that will obviously know more than me.... not hard.

Is there a way to change a manual indicator switch off an older bike to the press off type? thats all the technical speak in my vocab after several Jimmy's...

Cheers

[icebreaker]

I'd imagine you just replace the hole unit on the LHS Handle bar..

Then it's just down to wiring it back up again.


But I could be wrong.

[Quarkz]

You could yank out the switch and just superglue a button in there and reatach wires until it looks like it might work.

But, I am wrong so, don't do that.

[ty]

Agree with Dan - you should be able to find a switch block with a push off and just rewire it up.
ty

[mfzx6r]

Dans pretty right I'd say.
The auto cancel type thingy is all in the switch.




mario

[Neka79]

id go with quarkz..but then again i AM dodgy...

[mike-s]

its honestly impossible to say on the size thing without seeing both the switches opened up, but i'd guess that the size of the push-cancel one would be a bit bigger, simply as there's a bit more "mechanical" stuff going on.

Find out the diameter of your handlebars and width of your switchblock and try and locate a switchblock with the required facilities that fits yours.

last switchblock i bought cost me about $40 from a wrecker (i put a late 70's rhs switchblock on a '71 cb250, i then had a killswitch that worked

[Neka79]

u may even need to get different clip ons?? depending on how much space, and wot kinda diameter u have to work with??maybe one of these nerds with web links can help?? then wen uve done ur research, off to the wreckers...
can u fix it with bubble gum or duct tape?? im good & handy with the duct tape!!

[mrmina]

as long as the wiring from the old unit matches the wiring of the new unit u should be able to do a direct swap or u might have to get a multimeter and see what wires go where.