Hello all - I am brand new to this forum, and a one week old Stallion owner. I just acquired an Orange 08, number 294, with 6000 miles.
When I got the trike I only had 2 issues, the brake lights didn't work, and one of the fog lamps was out. I found the fog lamp bulb at NAPA and spliced that in.
I did a search for 'brake light' in the Stallion forums here, and it oddly only came up with a few posts. Scanning around, I have found numerous issues/mentions of this problem, centered around the brake light switch.
Called TBMS today, who was very helpful. Emailed the bulletin of how to replace the old switch with the new one (including pictures and diagrams),which he was prepared to send out. When I went to look at it, turns out I have the new one - screwed together, with the yellow ring around the connector. Odd, too, because it didn't appear to be spliced in, the wires just cleanly disappeared into the corrugated black plastic hose shortly after the connector. I tried shorting pins 1+2 with a paper clip, which 'should' have made the lights go on, but with no room to work, no slack on the cable, I don't think I was able to get a sure connection with the clip. Wasn't ready to splice wires until/unless I could put this on a lift so I would have the room to work.
Let me backtrack, the fuse is good (and has current), and the bulbs are all good. I have no issues with the gearshift lock, or the cruise control. I DO need to apply more than just a tap on the brakes to cancel the cruise, but only enough to shave a couple mph off speed, not the 10 or so needed for the other cancellation system to kick in. I saw one thread talking about a bad ground in the trunk, but the tail lights use the same ground and these work.
Any other ideas to look at? I did see something about the original waterproof switch being replaced by one with better contacts, is there a way to tell these apart?
Thanks in advance,,
Mike