small spill and now my brake servos dont work

[Nate]

Hi all,

Well it finally happened last night... My beloved 1200 went over... Only slow, patch of mud, back end out etc... etc... anyway, im a bit sore.. the bike is ok'ish

Broken front indicater, a few scratches to the hand guard and right hand side cylinder head ... combat damage i suppose... now it looks well tough...

Oh and my head hurts from drinking myself into a stupor for being a Tosser...

Ok, the question is... why doesnt my servo work... i've freed the brake lever from the guard... it just doesnt activate with the engine on or off... What am i missing?

cheers in advance for any help

Nate

 

[John Armstrong]

Mud / stick / small child stuck in between front and / or rear brake lever and micro switch holding it in?

Front hand guard twisted and fouling front brake lever?

Glad to hear the self inflicted injuries are worse than the falling off ones!

 

[Fanum]

If the rear wheel kept sinning when the front was still after your 'off', the ABS could just need resetting.....

Not sure of the procedure on a 12....it might even be supposed to do it itself on start-up

 

[newman7096]

Hi all,

Well it finally happened last night... My beloved 1200 went over... Only slow, patch of mud, back end out etc... etc... anyway, im a bit sore.. the bike is ok'ish

Broken front indicater, a few scratches to the hand guard and right hand side cylinder head ... combat damage i suppose... now it looks well tough...

Oh and my head hurts from drinking myself into a stupor for being a Tosser...

Ok, the question is... why doesnt my servo work... i've freed the brake lever from the guard... it just doesnt activate with the engine on or off... What am i missing?

cheers in advance for any help

Nate

Check the rear brake light switch is sitting properly. I did a track day and ground so much of the bike away it knocked the small metal switch out of position. Once pushed back into place all servo's worked again.

 

[Nate]

thanks all, its the front one...

I can hear the back one click, but the brake light is on and the front doesnt 'click'

all i need to do now is figure out how it should sit and im there... any ideas? a picture or something would be really handy... or an exploded diagram...


thanks for the help...

Nate

 

[araspitfire]

The front brake switch is a weak point and easily fixed... (I even bent one, internally, back together while on a trip to Norway)

You will hear the click noise it makes by pulling in the clutch lever... but the brake light switch clicks immediately upon taking up the slack in the brake lever... the clutch clicks when pulled all the way in.

Little Allen set-screw under the lever assembly... (follow the electrical cable into the switch) little "anvil" that the set-screw pushes against to make it stay in position... You just shove the switch into the holder, hear it click, screw it down. Adjust till it clicks right at the squeeze threshold... (it is actually "unclicking" when you squeeze... works backwards to the way you would think for some reason...)

Not rocket science at all... pull it out, see how it works, then rig it up again... If it's broken it's a cheap part.

If you get it wrong, either your servos won't go (your condition now), or you will get a light on the dash, and no brake lights...

Al...