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Reparing Your Ignition Switch
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<blockquote data-quote="Niehart" data-source="post: 437184" data-attributes="member: 5437"><p>My ignition switch died on a windy road in Montana Sunday night.</p><p></p><p>Pushed the bike about half a mile to find a place slightly out of the wind. Used my extra headlight bulb & some wires to make sure that I had power all the way to the switch. Of course I did so .. [remembering what I read on this forum] I cut the wires to the switch and wired the big to big & little to little. Ignition, awesome! Monday, found a switch [3 way was all I could find] and wired the big wires to it. Left the little wires hooked together. Cut up a plastic butter cup lid to fit the switch, put a hole in the middle & two slits on the sides for a tie strap. Put it on the closest bolt. Ran like that for another 1500 miles.</p><p></p><p>Now, as Paul Harvey says, the rest of the story. Part is order, on back order until a release date of June 30th which means that I should have it by July 8th. Would you believe that Yamaha has no way to tell if a dealer has one in stock? What a large crook of shit ..... and they had to have the bike before they would order the switch.</p><p></p><p>What's worse, even with all of that, I love this bike! :yahoo:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Niehart, post: 437184, member: 5437"] My ignition switch died on a windy road in Montana Sunday night. Pushed the bike about half a mile to find a place slightly out of the wind. Used my extra headlight bulb & some wires to make sure that I had power all the way to the switch. Of course I did so .. [remembering what I read on this forum] I cut the wires to the switch and wired the big to big & little to little. Ignition, awesome! Monday, found a switch [3 way was all I could find] and wired the big wires to it. Left the little wires hooked together. Cut up a plastic butter cup lid to fit the switch, put a hole in the middle & two slits on the sides for a tie strap. Put it on the closest bolt. Ran like that for another 1500 miles. Now, as Paul Harvey says, the rest of the story. Part is order, on back order until a release date of June 30th which means that I should have it by July 8th. Would you believe that Yamaha has no way to tell if a dealer has one in stock? What a large crook of shit ..... and they had to have the bike before they would order the switch. What's worse, even with all of that, I love this bike! :yahoo: [/QUOTE]
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