I've installed a nice shiny brembo clutch lever on my 999 but this leaves the original pair of little bullet connectors to the micro switch on the oem lever without a home. Question for you electrical gurus is should I leave then disconnected or should I join the two loose wires together to make up for the loss of the micro switch?
Sorry can't help you with a reply but hopefully someone can. On my 749, the metal tang that operates the microswitch has broken and now the bike has to be in neutral for the starter to work whereas before I could pull in the clutch lever and the starter would operate with it in gear. This can be annoying if the bike stalls just before pulling away,as it occasionally does, as it means faffing about trying to find neutral. So, will your bike start in gear with the lever pulled in?
A very good question Red! I'm building up the whole electrical loom so I won't know if it will start for some time I'm afraid
There's your answer. That switch is just there to prevent you starting it in gear. Either it requires continuity or not. Test to find out which and either isolate them or join them as required.
Hmm that's not quite the answer though Baggazee, I know that I want to set the wiring to continuity or not depending on what the micro switch reads when the clutch lever is pulled in. The flaw in that simple requirement is that if you don't have an original switch to test the continuity with you can't test it, hence the request
Logic would suggest Lever out Open Circuit - Lever in Contact. If you want to retain the function you could always fit a pressure switch. Goodridge Banjo Bolt Brake Light Switch | Demon Tweeks
Good shout Tobytyke that would be a good fallback for me. Thanks! Baggage, so I'm building the bike now and installing the loom. The bike has not and will not run for some time as I need to do all the wiring. I'd like to either join or cut back the clutch lever wires now as the loom gets refined so wanted to know if the lever micro switch opened or closed the circuit across those wires. Common sense would suggest pulling the lever in closes the circuit, but I've seen it work the opposite way too so wanted to know from a standard loom whether the lever in opens or closes the circuit so I can leave or join the wires as appropriate. The pressure switch is nice I like that as a backstop solution but I'd rather have a less complicated loom and junk the wires if possible....and I don't have a standard lever and micro switch to just put a multimeter across which would be the easiest answer
