richardthemotorcycle1
XS650 Guru
Sorry, My bike is a 1983 XS650 Heritage Special.
Thanks, I thought I was going crazy, the foot peg working good, just when I squeeze front brake handle is when the brake light stay on, now if I turn bike off and come back turn key on, brake light normal until I squeeze front brake. Will check it out and let you know what I find.
There is a mechanical component inside that housing that completes the circuit and when you are depressing the front brake, it is not returning as it should. The problem is in that housing.
Yeah there is a name for that. It's called a. . .
switch.
You must go through band-aids at an alarming rate because from the sound of things, your bike is just covered with them, lol.
Herd if you look at a wiring diagram at the brake switches you will find two, one front one rear. Power flows to both switches on a brown wire, from the switches to the brake light on yellow wires.
When you use the front brake power is sent to the brake light. When you use the rear brake power is sent to the brake light.
No power is sent from one switch to the other.
Leo