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Message started by kennycreed on 11/17/08 at 23:03:09

Title: switch on clutch leaver
Post by kennycreed on 11/17/08 at 23:03:09

>:( Hi all,I find that the starting switch on the clutch leaver is a bit of a pain when working on the bike, is there any way that it can be disconnected permanent without me having to have a major degree in electronics?

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by prechermike on 11/18/08 at 02:29:43

Maybe instead of actually mesing with the switch you could tie or tape the clutch lever, as if you were pulling it.

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by dr1445 on 11/18/08 at 03:07:40

trace the lines back to the headlight area. you should be able to unplug the leads to clutch lever and plug the harness side leads together. i have not looked myself but this is how it is on other suzuki bikes. the switch is now disabled and the bike will start with the clutch handle out.

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 11/18/08 at 05:16:47

Normally iopen switch, disconnect & short the wires to it, tells the bike the lever is pulled & is easily reversed.

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by kennycreed on 11/18/08 at 05:58:11

Got it,,Is it the same with the side stand switch, engines I'm ok on. electrics I'm crap

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by Charon on 11/18/08 at 08:56:47

Bypassing safety switches is usually pretty easy. Its a matter of finding out whether the switch is normally open or normally closed, and rearranging the wiring to match. However, in today's litigious society I hesitate even to tell anyone how to do it, let alone recommending it.

The safety feature that annoys me most isn't even found on a motorcycle. It is the "feature" that requires one to step on the brake pedal before shifting the transmission out of PARK. I know why it is there - it is to protect the fools who don't know how to properly set a parking brake but instead rely on PARK to hold the vehicle in place.

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by T Mack 1 on 11/18/08 at 10:01:08

I put in a relay so that when in neutral, it is bypassed. This maintains the safety feature of not allowing the bike to start in gear unless you pull in the clutch.

How it works: The neutral switch in the tranny just acts as a switch to ground. So, on the coil part of the relay (electro magnet part), one side goes to power (orange wire) the other goes to the blue neutral switch wire. The switch part of the relay acts as a short of the clutch lever switch (yellow wires with green stripes).

Title: Re: switch on clutch leaver
Post by Reelthing on 11/19/08 at 13:26:58

133831223F3E500 wrote:

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The safety feature that annoys me most isn't even found on a motorcycle. It is the "feature" that requires one to step on the brake pedal before shifting the transmission out of PARK. I know why it is there - it is to protect the fools who don't know how to properly set a parking brake but instead rely on PARK to hold the vehicle in place.

Thought that was developed for a different set of fools - the kind that only bought Audi 5000's. According to Audi only the buyers of the 5000’s would get mixed up as to which was for gas and which was for the brake when they would start the car of a morning and it would run through the back of the garage, even if, according to some people at the time, they had both feet on the brake - it was only a coincidence that Audi put out a software update to their computer controlled throttle linkage about the same time all of these cases were reported.