Horn *WAS* stuck on...I fixed it

[Dom]

Well, my bike fell over while warming up a few days ago...vibrated off the kickstand or some other bizarre crap.  It was just like the car crashes in the movies where the horn stays on.  It's also a noisy problem to fix.  I tried to pull the turn signal/horn apart, I thought it might be stuck or something, but it hasn't fixed anything.  Any ideas?  I really don't want to rip the wiring harness apart but I guess I have to do whatever it takes.  I understand that my bike may enjoy it's new found permanent Viagara, I however, do not.

[Daniely]

hmm, sounds like the switch was damaged inside the clutch/high beam/turn signal housing. You might wanna take your grip off and take the housing off and check it out. Worse comes to worse you can always just disconnect the horn itself, you wont have one, but you wont have a horn constantly goin off, lesser of two evils I say.

But yea, check out the housing, sounds like something may have bent (causing the switch to be bridged) or just busted off inside the housing. Let us know what you come up with.

[Dom]

Well, I pulled the turn signal/horn completely apart and put it back together, cleaning and greasing carefully so as not to foul any connections with grease.  Now my right blinkers won't go on and I have even tested the blinkers by connecting the contacts with a paperclip...same situation...so it must be in the harness....argh....how could that have happened?  Pinched wires? :x

[Dom]

Guess what happened...


Guess what I had to go thru to figure it out...guess what all that is...that's what your turn signal's guts look like.


A word of advice...if you aren't using the stock headlight make sure your wires are tucked away from anywhere that they might get pinched.  :x