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Old Oct 3, 2011 | 09:36 PM
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Default St00pid Br4k3 light wont turn off!!!!

Okay, so my bike's brake light doesn't seem to turn off anymore. it's either always on regardless if im pulling the break or not, or its blowing the tailight, turn signal, horn fuse. Mainly, its blowing the fuse and just pissin me off.

To start, it does have the acrebis cyclops street fighter headlight on, the dude bro before me did the rear fender delete and integrated the turn signals and well practically failed at it. The turn signals don't even work back there and well what bulb do i use back there? i'm pretty sure the cool guy had no idea how to do that mod and i have no clue what bulb it takes.

Anyways, if someone could point me in the right direction so i know where to start looking as to why the fuse blows and the brake light stays on, i'd be very happy.
 
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Old Oct 3, 2011 | 10:45 PM
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disconnect the rear pedal switch and see if it goes off- might need some adjusting.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2011 | 07:58 AM
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^^^ thank you my good man, also, do you know how to lower the rear lever as well? its a pita to pull my ankle that high to hit it compared to every other bike ive been on (previous owner dropped it and i think its bent)
 
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Old Oct 4, 2011 | 09:39 AM
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If it's bent there may not be much you can do - but there is a nut on the master cylinder shaft that if you loosen it, you can turn the shaft and adjust the pedal down some.

I had a similar issue with the height of a bent pedal, but found a un-bent one on the classifeds here.

I was thinking about taking the bent one, drilling a small hole about mid way through and cutting a notch through the bottom, up to the hole. Then I was gonna bend the thing til the notch closed up and tack weld all back together.
 
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Old Oct 5, 2011 | 06:49 AM
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Ya at further inspection(second opinion lol) it's burnt to hell! Anyways, my rear brake like doesn't have a bracket to be held onto so ima see if I can't fab up some bs. Also theres this green wire chilling back with the brake light/ taillight with a connector On it so it was connected at one point, could it be a ground wire the po neglected after the integrated tails?
 
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Old Oct 5, 2011 | 07:33 AM
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very likely - solid dark green in the factory wiring harness is ground.
 
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