BLS Replacement

[Cr8n]

A couple times this week tapping the brake pedal wasn't enough to disengage cruise, I had to hold the brake for a second.
Last night, I lost brake lights and gained two trouble codes (p00504 and p061e). All fuses are good so it looks like the Brake Light Switch is likely bad.
Has anyone ever changed this themselves? It appears ti be a common problem but I haven't found much info on the process of removing it.

 

[JayBros]

Year and model?

 

[billybovine]

Try cleaning the switch first on your mystery Spyder or Ryker.

 

[Cr8n]

2014 sts-se5. Cleaned, didn't work.

 

[Cr8n]

Removed the switch. I can't say it is difficult, but i pretty much had to disassemble the bike to get the catalytic converter or primary muffler out of the way. Once that was off the switch only has two bolts and a screw holding it in.
Interesting, the switches didn't work when tested on the bike but after removing they both seem to function. I am going to replace so I don't have to disassemble again but I suspect road grime may have wedged into the switch or the contact lever slipped and caught on the pedal.
As I loosened the pedal, I heard the switch click which it wasn't doing before.

 

[Cr8n]

Back on the road. There are two switches that have to be drilled out and riveted back onto the mounting plate. The dealer had both in stock and it just uses 1/8 x1/2 pop rivets.
Fixing and putting it all back together only took a couple hours. I even had it done before my wife saw the whole thing disassembled and spread across the shop.

 

[billybovine]

You should have not had to replace both switches. There is only one brake light switch and the other is the low pressure switch. Since you were not getting any low pressure faults it would have been working fine. Oh well it's done and fixed.

 

[Cr8n]

Switch replacement is easy, getting to them was not so I figured it was worth the extra $40 to do both while I had it tore down.
Especially since the switch was likely. But still just an educated guess.

 

[safecracker]

Thanks for keeping us up todate.