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paulmarshall Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1268 Carterton,New Zealand Gender:	Clutch Switch 10/02/12 at 19:58:19 The clutch lever on my LS400 does not have a clutch switch. Does anyone know if I connect the two yellow clutch wires together would this bridge the problem and allow me to start the engine?
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28843 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #1 - 10/02/12 at 20:01:40 If these 2 wires are going to a switch that's no longer there... probably.
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paulmarshall Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1268 Carterton,New Zealand Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #2 - 10/02/12 at 20:05:57 I have the 650 wiring loom but differs in places compared to the 400. These two yellow wires do go to the clutch switch, so logic tells me to push them together. Because thats what a switch would do is that right?
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Digger Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Ya gotta be tough to ride singles! Posts: 1604 Colorado Springs, CO Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #3 - 10/02/12 at 21:23:06 I'm thinkin' yeah.
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wambr Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 610 Russia, Samara Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #4 - 10/02/12 at 21:34:57 judging by the electric schemes, if we combine these two yellow wire, then the clutch lever is turned off. everything correctly.
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Cavi Mike Serious Thumper Offline Thumper n00b Posts: 1005 Rochester, NY Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #5 - 10/02/12 at 22:30:35 If it starts with them disconnected, no. If it won't start unless you touch them, yes. There are only two options here, that's all a switch does. There's not some third option where something is going to blow up in Australia. Just put them in a way your bike will start.
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Re: Clutch Switch
Reply #6 - 10/02/12 at 23:03:38

There's not some third option where something is going to blow up in Australia.

Whaaat? No special section of Random Terrorist Strike switches? Those switches in the little black bag with the ??? marks on them in the back of the drawer at Radio Shack dont have special abilities to blow things up in another hemisphere? Dangittt! Im not payin $45.00 for another one of them then,,

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LouSiana Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 73 Hannover, Germany Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #7 - 10/03/12 at 04:43:51 verslagen1 wrote on 10/02/12 at 20:01:40: If these 2 wires are going to a switch that's no longer there... probably. Not only probably... It works! Put them together at the harness side and you've done it.
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #8 - 10/03/12 at 07:34:35 Of course, you could take the safer way. You could buy and install the clutch safety switch.
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Reply #9 - 10/03/12 at 07:54:05

Just hook them together and be done with it. The switch is just a cheap little fail prone piece of nanny-state nonsense that you don't need. You should do the same with the side stand switch while you are at it.

Those switches are only there to force lazy Americans to do what they should as a matter of course anyway... check to make sure the bike is in neutral before it is started. You can't trust the neutral light by the way, it will light up in false neutral.

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LouSiana Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 73 Hannover, Germany Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #10 - 10/03/12 at 10:03:32 WD wrote on 10/03/12 at 07:54:05: ...You can't trust the neutral light by the way, it will light up in false neutral. Nonsense! If it lights up being NOT in the regular neutral position, say at any position else than true neutral, there is something darn wrong in your personal wiring harness.
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paulmarshall Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1268 Carterton,New Zealand Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #11 - 10/03/12 at 10:23:16 [Of course, you could take the safer way. You could buy and install the clutch safety switch] Its not just a matter of buying a switch, I would have to buy a clutch lever and mount too. The LS400 clutch lever is completely different from the LS600. I will just connect them and save money thanks.
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wambr Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 610 Russia, Samara Gender:	Re: Clutch Switch Reply #12 - 10/03/12 at 12:24:44 fully fit. I know exactly...
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Re: Clutch Switch
Reply #13 - 10/03/12 at 13:18:18

WD wrote on 10/03/12 at 07:54:05:

Just hook them together and be done with it. The switch is just a cheap little fail prone piece of nanny-state nonsense that you don't need. You should do the same with the side stand switch while you are at it.

Those switches are only there to force lazy Americans to do what they should as a matter of course anyway... check to make sure the bike is in neutral before it is started. You can't trust the neutral light by the way, it will light up in false neutral.

Let him who has never made a mistake curse safety switches. For the rest of us, they sometimes prevent "incidents."

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Re: Clutch Switch
Reply #14 - 10/03/12 at 13:47:43

WD wrote on 10/03/12 at 07:54:05:

Just hook them together and be done with it. The switch is just a cheap little fail prone piece of nanny-state nonsense that you don't need. You should do the same with the side stand switch while you are at it.

Those switches are only there to force lazy Americans to do what they should as a matter of course anyway... check to make sure the bike is in neutral before it is started. You can't trust the neutral light by the way, it will light up in false neutral.

I eliminated all my safety switches and even the on off switch. I've got a key and a start button now. I'm ALWAYS careful to park it in neutral!

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