eppley wrote on 02/09/14 at 16:38:27:But if I do decide to do it the other way I would run constant power to the switch?
The neutral switch operates as a "ground", and when the bike is in neutral the switch completes the circuit and grounds the blue wire. When you want the bike to run with the kick stand down....the wire has to be grounded. When you want the starter button to work....the wire should not be gounded........unless you pull the clutch in.
The point here is.....you just can't ground or leave the blue wire hanging. The interlock safety devices are all tied together.....and it is far more difficult to bypass or eliminate them...than it is to fix the blue wire. If you haven't taken the time to look at an understand the wiring harness to figure out what the "blue wire" is and does.....chances are that the systematic elimination and bypassing of the safety interloc system is over your head as well.
While you have the clutch cover off....inspect and measure the cam chain tensioner.
Wiring harness link:
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1294779818