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I needed to find a way to eliminate the stock mechanical brake light pull switch, as I did not want to have to run it with my new billet footpeg/heal guard brackets I will be making.
So I came up with a novel idea to adapt a regular car type hydraulic brake light switch using a custom made billet adapter manifold, that I attached rear brake master cylinder reservoir using a double length banjo bolt, and it is basically the same with as the banjo end of the brake line.
So I just Installed a banjo washer then the brake line banjo fitting, followed by another banjo washer, my new brake light switch manifold, then the outer banjo washer and torqued the banjo bolt to the factory specs.
I had to cut off the stock brake light switch connector and solder new leads on so that I could install the billet connectors that connect to the terminals on the brake light switch, and now the wires going to the new switch run down the fluid supply hose to the master cylinder and are pretty much hidden from view now.
The new switch works great, and I have used this very same type of brake light switch before on a lot of my bikes to replace the stock mechanical brake light pull switches, and they work great and never need adjusting, and I'ver never had one go bad.
While I was cleaning things up in preparation for my new billet footpeg brackets, I decided to modify the stock footpeg/heal guard brackets by cutting off the rear section on each bracket, then sanding, reshaping and repainting them with semi-gloss black paint.
I did this so that the master cylinder would be more exposed, as I thought it would look better smoothed out and polished and not partially covered like it was by the stock bracket. You can see the custom manifold for the new brake light switch pointing up vertically from the top of the master cylinder.
So I completely smoothed out the master cylinder and polished it, and it looks great against the black paint. I really like the looks of the modified brackets, and it gives me a good idea on just who much better my new billet brackets will look on the bike.
The next phase of this project will be machining up the new billet footpeg brackets.
Another couple things I've done to my bike was strip the black paint off of each my rims, leaving the center of the rims black, and replacing all of the bolts for the brake calipers and the lower leg pinch bolts with polished S/S SHCS.
So I came up with a novel idea to adapt a regular car type hydraulic brake light switch using a custom made billet adapter manifold, that I attached rear brake master cylinder reservoir using a double length banjo bolt, and it is basically the same with as the banjo end of the brake line.
So I just Installed a banjo washer then the brake line banjo fitting, followed by another banjo washer, my new brake light switch manifold, then the outer banjo washer and torqued the banjo bolt to the factory specs.
I had to cut off the stock brake light switch connector and solder new leads on so that I could install the billet connectors that connect to the terminals on the brake light switch, and now the wires going to the new switch run down the fluid supply hose to the master cylinder and are pretty much hidden from view now.
The new switch works great, and I have used this very same type of brake light switch before on a lot of my bikes to replace the stock mechanical brake light pull switches, and they work great and never need adjusting, and I'ver never had one go bad.
While I was cleaning things up in preparation for my new billet footpeg brackets, I decided to modify the stock footpeg/heal guard brackets by cutting off the rear section on each bracket, then sanding, reshaping and repainting them with semi-gloss black paint.
I did this so that the master cylinder would be more exposed, as I thought it would look better smoothed out and polished and not partially covered like it was by the stock bracket. You can see the custom manifold for the new brake light switch pointing up vertically from the top of the master cylinder.
So I completely smoothed out the master cylinder and polished it, and it looks great against the black paint. I really like the looks of the modified brackets, and it gives me a good idea on just who much better my new billet brackets will look on the bike.
The next phase of this project will be machining up the new billet footpeg brackets.
Another couple things I've done to my bike was strip the black paint off of each my rims, leaving the center of the rims black, and replacing all of the bolts for the brake calipers and the lower leg pinch bolts with polished S/S SHCS.