Ignition Switch?

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  • Anonymous

    #1

    Ignition Switch?

    I took the right hand switch assembly apart to clean the contacts, and put it back together (this is on my '82 GS1100e). Once it was back together I found a small approximately 1/4" long 1-3mm diameter spring on the floor. The only spring that seems to have a place in the assembly is the start button spring, and it was already installed. So is there another smaller spring in the assembly, that I dropped when I opened the case? Maybe it was dropped at an earlier time by someone trying to frustrate me?
  • frosty5011
    Forum Guru
    • Jan 2003
    • 5882
    • Northeast Alabama

    #2
    Did you take apart the assembly for the brake lever switch? It has a little spring and a little contact bent in the shape of a "U" which can easily get lost if you're not careful.
    Frosty (falsely accused of "Thread-Hijacking"!)
    "Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot."

    Owner of:
    1982 GS1100E
    1995 Triumph Daytona 1200

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    • Anonymous

      #3
      I didn't take apart the brake lever switch, but I it does seem the smaller spring was from something else.
      Thanks,
      Billy Miles

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      • Anonymous

        #4
        The only other electrical part in the right switchgear is the kill switch. That's something you want to make sure works 100%. Maybe it supplies pressure to the contacts in that switch.

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        • Hoomgar

          #5
          I haven't even seen it in my GS but on some of my other bikes the high/low and on/off switches had little springs on both top and bottom of the in the direction that they slide. Not sure what for other than to make it a stable posision. Not sure, but they were/are there.

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