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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bad Boy Biker" data-source="post: 107353" data-attributes="member: 14349"><p>Good Morning. It is still raining here and that means more shop time. So here is an update. I made the 120 mile round trip for the lapbar switch. Nice people there but they just did not know if this part was the fix. Before I started repairs I met a man who had four of these machines. He loves them and said the seat switch is the problem. So I made another long trip to get the seat switch. Now I have both. Yesterday, I pulled the seat and the plate below it off. Took the seat off the plate and there was the seat switch. Pulled the switch out of the seat and plugged it back in with the seat out of the way. I could open and close the switch with my hand. Still had the problem but it did show that the seat switch was working. I followed the remaining wire and located the lapbelt switch, hidden on the right hand side toward the front. I had to pull the plate off that surrounds the speed control lever. I could just barely get a finger on the switch in an effort to open and close it. By starting the machine and controlling both switches by hand I was able to get the machine to run as if the lapbar was up and the seat was empty. There is a linkage that pulls a small steel plate down to operate the switch when the lapbar is moved up or down. By shortening the linkage I was able to get the moving plate to activate the switch. This was the solution. So, I did not need the two switches I bought. But the fuel cost to return them makes them keepers in a box in the shop. Thanks to everyone here and those I spoke to with ideas. Gave a carpenter the confidence to take on the fix myself. Ride Safe, Wave, I'll Wave Back. Bad Boy Biker</p></blockquote><p></p>

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