OK so my 94 1000f is being a royal bit**. for some reason my brake lights are not staying on. i was riding last night and all of a sudden i noticed they went out. they work when i press the brake and the turn signals work but the continuous light, and plate light arent stayiong on.? My fuses are fine and i cant seem to find any exposed wires. so???
Also my foot brake has no pressure to the rear it only sends pressure to the front and thats only when im not pressing the hand lever.
Can anyone please help with these cuz im out of ideas.

 

Suggest you bleed your DCBS properly first before anything else. Sounds like it
needs it

 

Check the sockets themselves. Look at the contacts at the bottom and be sure that
they are good. Replace the bulb with a known good. i.e. do a continuity check on the
2 elements to be sure they are sound. Look for any pinch points. Use your multi meter
to follow the wire from the bulb back to the fuses, checking for hot to ground.
You can use a straight-pin thru the jacket on the wire to test each run at the
beginning and end (in case the wire is broken and doesn't show damage to the insulation.

Are the tag-light and the rear tail-light 2 different bulbs? Or is there a clear section at
the bottom of the reflector housing that shines down on the tag? If it's 2 seperate sockets
start running your trace where the harness feeds them both.

Worst case scenerio, by-pass the existing wiring and run new leads to the troubled
sockets and quit trying to figure it out. The goal is to get the lighting to operate,
not nessacarily to figure out why they aren't working.

Hope this helps, Ern

 

Proper bleeding steps for DCBS --> LINK

 

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YEP TBT agrees until it's bled right - brake switches and lights mean absolutely NADA !
due to the travel of the MC's (master cylinders - levers & pedels) in relation to the brakes switches

 

To me that's consistent with a ground wire not fully operational