Hi,
Before i break something it's probably best i ask, however simple this may be!
My Pass switch has stopped working which is annoying as i use it a lot. Everything else works fine and fuses all look good so im guessing maybe the switch itself needs a clean. Ive taken the two screws out to split the housing/assembly up on the left handlebar but it seems really tight,like there's something in the bottom that's going to get bent out of shape or go "ping" and i wont get the thing back together again! Ive had it apart enough to squirt contact cleaner in there without any luck so do i just need to be a bit more brutal with it or is there something i should be looking for!!? 08 abs
Cheers
(yeah and ive posted this in the wrong place, can someone move it )

* Last updated by: wobbo on 8/23/2015 @ 6:55 AM *

There is a plastic nub that inserts in the bar...underneath there,on the lower half of the housing.The housing won't turn.It should pop off upper/lower halves.Can't say for sure if here's a spring or something that might come out...just take it apart SLOWLY.

Ah right ok, cheers dude. Some gentle leverage down before i split the thing completely apart should do it then. Its the simple things i have a habit of screwing up!

* Last updated by: wobbo on 8/24/2015 @ 6:45 AM *

I never use that switch.

The basics of how electricity moves are...
a. A Magnetic field;
b. Causes heat at the arc;
c. And corrodes the touch pads.

1. My connector is not connected. Yes it is... I have lights on, winkers work, high beam is not burned out.
2. My wire is out of a connector. Maybe... I do have high beam, but which touch pad or wire end is the variable?
3. My touch pads might be corroded. If my wires are in their connectors, no wire out of connector; pad-1 is wire end with the pad to ground is good; pad-2 is this wire end is hot, means, all connectors from hot to ground have been cleared. The mechanical side is that both touch pads are at their stationary places, no broken pad dangling in the switch housing; Alex, for $200 I'll take C; 'pads are corroded due to A and B [if 1 and 2 pan out].

Cut a sandpaper sheet so you have a strip to slide down the touch pad area. Less switch parts removed, less parts lost or how it went back together, you broke off a plastic yada-yada. If the spring has too much resistance, meaning, moving the passing switch arm onto the pads >> breaks the paper, back off of the switch so much so there is a slight drag on the paper so as to move up and down, or a one-way drag up and reinstall the strip. All this to remove the corrosion off the pad and return to bare metal.

Then, use vaseline or vaporub between contacts so as to plunge a wad of dielectric grease between them.