Brake light on constant....

[daj]

Hello, my brake light on the 1150 GS is on all the time. So far I've use lots of WD40 on both front and back switches and waggled the back one a lot. Parking light works fine, so I guess the bulb is OK.

It's dark and cold so I've not taken anything to bits yet.

Any I deas where to start at the weekend?

Cheers

 

[ELIMINATOR]

Can you hear the front brake light switch click on and off? My ABS model had this problem, but I could hear the servo pump running.

I took the brake lever off & greased the bush. Voila, cured

 

[DavidHale]

When this happened to me it turned out to be the microswitch arm inside the front brake lever housing. It just needed to be bent a bit and it was fine. Took about 20 mins to take apart, bend and put back together. I'll see if I can find the diagram for you.

 

[daj]

Thanks for your help.

Only one more day to risk getting rear ended or pulled...Christ I'm sounding very 'Carry On' now...Ooooh, Mrs!

 

[Bigtwin]

Lift your right foot up 1/2"?

 

[Yoda]

Handguard catching the front lever and preventing it from fully returning?

 

[Ian J Hartley]

Check the twin filament bulb. When this happened to me both the filaments in the bulb were touching.

 

[daj]

Thanks all for your help...

Went out this morning and sorted it. It was the front brake switch, just took it out bent it a bit (seemed like the right thing to do at the time ) and checked it again...works fine now.

Thanks again...I like this forum, 'You know you are not alone on here'...