Servo screwed

[immigrant]

Quick trip to Lakeside today and all was well.

Stop at the Harley dealer on the way back and I'm greeted with the flashing red 'Brake Failure' warning light and the booster whine is distinctly absent.

As documented here in the past, the brakes still work (with major effort), but I need to get this sorted.

What sort of damage to my wallet am I looking at?

 

[ebbo]

First, try and find someone with a GS-911 fault diagnostic unit so you can find out what’s wrong. It's no us guessing

 

[immigrant]

You're right Ebbo. I posted in the usual "why did my freakin' bike let me down??" afterburn instead of doing some research first.

Some digging led to solid advice from Wapping (forum sage) on another thread and after some fettling it seems it may just be down to the microswitch issue rather than anything more serious.

The switch in the foot pedal looks to be the culprit.

 

[EggChaser]

Yep - check your brake light switch contacts (near front level and rear pedal) - as if the system detects a fault with those during initial diagnostics it disables the servos and the ABS - as found out on my R1100S but I guess the principle applies

 

[(RIP) Bobble]

Hope you don't have to change it, they wanted £1400. for my 1150 (they didn't get though )

 

[ebbo]

Hope you don't have to change it, they wanted £1400. for my 1150 (they didn't get though )

Maybe worth trying these people before panicking
http://www.ecutesting.com/abs_pumps_modules.html

 

[Pukmeister]

If that still doesn't fix it, maybe Steptoe can sort it for you ??

 

[Kremmen]

Stop at the Harley dealer on the way back and I'm greeted with the flashing red 'Brake Failure' warning light and the booster whine is distinctly absent.

The 2 morals here are... Don't go to lakeside even if your life depends on it, and as for stepping over the threshold of a certain unmentionable American brand, its no wonder the brake warning flashed .... it quite obvious your machine was trying to destroy itself.