Head light switch

Hi today started up the 850 and found that I had only high beam .flicking the light switch from high to low the switch did not travel as far on low beam as did on high.pulled apart for the first time(new to the ways of the Norton) sprayed with contact cleaner.had the switch toggle set to the middle ball on top of spring put back together now light only runs in the neutral positon lights out on the high&low ?
thanks Mike

Did you disconnect the switch wiring from the harness while you were doing this?

No had head light removed to check plug and spray contact cleaner replaced light. bike was turned off when looking at switch

When your dimmer switch is in the neutral position that would be the low beam. When the switch is toggled up, it is your high beam. There is just a high and a neutral (low beam) position. Apparently your low beam is working correctly.

Try to do a quick test with your high beam flash switch (the button above your dimmer switch). If your high beam illuminates when you press your high beam flash, that indicates a problem with the actual dimmer switch. The reason why I say that is because your low beams are working, which indicates there is power to the dimmer switch.

If your high beams do not illuminate when you push the high beam flash I would suspect either the high beam bulb and/or indicator bulb is burned out or the wiring (blue/white wire) and connectors that leads from the dimmer switch to your headlight/indicator bulb is faulty. What the high beam flash switch does is bypass your dimmer switch so that the high beam should work regardless of the dimmer switch condition or the headlight switch position.

I hope this makes some sense.

Pete

Hi Pete thanks for the info. did what you said all the indercators are working but I have no high beam flash.
will start with getting a new bulb. can I get a LED replacement bulb that will plug straight in to the standed plug.
cheers mike

The kind of LED replacement headlight bulbs that plug straight into the original holder with no extra little box of tricks then you will not get as much light out of it. Also so LED lights are not as good as others especially the cheaper ones of eBay that come directly from China don't last long. I got a couple of for my car an them both smoked an fused as soon as i turned them on.

The kind of LED replacement headlight bulbs that plug straight into the original holder with no extra little box of tricks then you will not get as much light out of it. Also so LED lights are not as good as others especially the cheaper ones of eBay that come directly from China don't last long. I got a couple of for my car an them both smoked an fused as soon as i turned them on.

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