New brake caliper seals - but now can't turn off driving lights!

[Greg Masters]

Fitted new caliper seals yesterday. Doing a thorough job, I bled the brakes from both calipers and from the ABS bleed point under the tank.

Whilst I have the tank off, I decided to wash all the years of road dust from the under-tank area.

Everything reassembled, I don my riding gear and take the bike for a 30 mile run. All is OK. I park the bike in the garage.

Yesterday evening, I go to the garage and find that the driving lights are on. No amount of switching or pressing buttons would turn them off. I end up disconnecting the wiring from the live source on the back of the starter motor.



Moral of the story - use waterproof relays! One now ordered.



Greg

 

[hops]

fixed it for ya

Moral of the story - don't begger about with things that can't be seen!

 

[cookie]

Whilst I have the tank off, I decided to wash all the years of road dust from the under-tank area.

i see a clue.

wash....electrics....

 

[motobiker]

i see a clue.

wash....electrics....

Oh.. how we laughed!!!

 

[davegs]

Lesson for today

So now you know NEVER CLEAN THE THING!! (bad for your health!).

 

[ianran]

So now you know NEVER CLEAN THE THING!! (bad for your health!).

These things can be cleaned???