Just bought a 2005 R3 in February 2015, now its broke...ignition switch?

Adam said:
(how the hell did they get those in there?)
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they are break off bolts . They have a hex head on them until a certain torque is applied to the bolt then the head twist off leaving nothing to turn them loose with. Except for a punch and hammer if you want to get them out while the ignition switch is still mounted. A pain but doable.
 
Adam said:
Thanks! I guess chicks would dig remote start or at least easier than re-solder or ordering stuff. Did you still have to go with the headlight relay kit from eastern beaver?
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The remote start is handy most of the time. Only on the few days of winter we have, and I'm wearing heavy gloves is it hard to feel the button.

I did the same as the EB, except I did it myself for much cheaper. It may have been overkill, but I figured for the times I would use the key my switch would be protected.
 
My 05 melted the solder out about a year (I bought it used) after I had it. I used the hammer and punch method and removed the bolts and then removed the switch and lock. I repaired the solder joints and installed the EB kit then relocated the switch to the panel under your left knee. There is a relocation kit out there, Revco? maybe. Much better then reaching over the bars, no steering lock but if they want the beast that badly.... As you have seen many options exist, just gotta find one that makes you happy.
 
Rivco no longer make that product
 
Adam said:
Oh my score on the manual!!! Thank you so much. Its so obvious in the wiring diagram now
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I be jealous that you know how to understand a wire diagram.
Poor ignorant me .
 
Steel said:
Is that because you were born before color existed, so you see the world in black and white?
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NAW, I foolishly never saw the need to know until it was too late and I was too busy learning stuff that made me money!
I do understand your swamp rat roots so, just so you know, there actually was 'lectricity when I was borned!
 
1olbull said:
NAW, I foolishly never saw the need to know until it was too late and I was too busy learning stuff that made me money!
I do understand your swamp rat roots so, just so you know, there actually was 'lectricity when I was borned!
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The LA Times reported that an anthropologist from UCLA was digging at a site near San Francisco and after digging down 25 feet found a network copper wiring. He concluded based on the depth these were found that in the early 1800's California had already developed a phone line system well ahead of the rest of the country.
Not to be outdone, the New York Post published an article about an anthropologist that was researching a site near Hells Gate. He discovered copper wires with plastic ends buried 35 feet below the surface. The scientist concluded that New York had developed an internet network in the 1700's well before anyone else in the country or world!
After reading these stories, Boudreax, an attendee of the Raceland La. college went out to a sugarfield next to Bayou LaFourche and dug down 50 feet and found NOTHING. He went back to the LaFourche Gazette and reported what he did and found. He concluded that Louisiana had already gone wireless in the 1600's!!!!!
 
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