No brake light...

The switch u showed is a pressure switch it has to be from disc set up. If u have a drum rear then it would have to look like the one 5 twin posted.
If u want to have a rear brake switch and there is nothing there u need to weld on a mount to hold one like the one 5 twin showed u.
 
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Right. I have a front switch and it went bad i guess. No switch for the rear yet. Sorry. I don't mean to be confusing. I'm even worse in person...

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Then the switch should be connected to the brake rod behind the trangular section of the frame where the foot controls etc mount. Has a little spring that toggles the top of the switch.
 
Your front brake switch is what is called a banjo bolt switch. Mikeshas them. been using one on my rear disc brake for a couple years no, works great.
J&P has a universal brake switch #2400115. It comes with a clamp mount you can mount most anywhere on the frame and most anywhere on the brake rod. $6.99
Leo
 
This same think is currently happening to me, the switches are good, bulbs are good, but no power to the Yellow wire that brightens the brake light when pressed by either switch. Any quick answers besides check the wiring? is there a specific part I need to check that might be bad? I have power to the running light.
 
This same think is currently happening to me, the switches are good, bulbs are good, but no power to the Yellow wire that brightens the brake light when pressed by either switch. Any quick answers besides check the wiring? is there a specific part I need to check that might be bad? I have power to the running light.
You say the bulb is good, the switches are good, any answers except check the wiring. If bulb and switches are good what's left but the wiring?
 
That's what I'm saying! I'm not seeing anything wrong with the wiring so far, checking later. Is there any parts like rectifier or relay that make the brake light function? like that relay behind the battery box?
 
No, it's just a pair of switches in parallel. One side of the switches should have power all the time I'm thinking. If not, then the problem is between the switches and the source of 12V and not downstream. If there is 12 there, then the problem is between there are the bulb.
 
I had the little brass button that contacts the bulb terminal break from vibration. To fix it I stuck the wire through and wadded it up and put a blob of solder on it to simulate the button. In the tail light you have two buttons that need to be about equal height though.
 
Yes, the brake light switches simply interrupt the power flow on the power wire running to the brake light. The running or tail light is a different circuit and not related to the brake light. Power there won't matter as far as the brake light goes. You'll need to check for 12 volts flowing into the brake light switches on their brown wires. Sounds like you have none.
 
I currently have all the wires out up to the front brake wires. I'll check the brown wires again. Is there any alternative if this doesn't work? like maybe rewiring the yellow wire to the blue? lol just thinking aloud.. Also, is the brown wire from the ignition switch the power wire for the yellow brake wire?
 
Yes, the brown wire from the ignition switch is the power feed wire for the yellow brake light wire, among many other things. It feeds out to most of the electrical items on the bike. It would be odd for the brown feed wire to be dead at both brake light switches because it is branching off the main brown in different spots quite a distance from each other.
 
Not a problem. I saw that all the wiring was connected as the diagram shows. But, the wiring from the previous owner was kind of blah as I've said from past posts. But it just turns out that the male end (on my bike) on one of the brown wire came loose, almost off, inside the heat shrink, so it was giving somewhat of a connection, just enough to have impatience's make you miss a few times lol. lesson learned. Now that it all has strong connection, it works.
 
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