Harley owners PSA

[Doc45]

Noticed something interesting last Sunday. On highway 83 heading to Palmer Divide on my '14 FXDF. Tooling along around 60-65 when the red electrical system light came on. I slowed down (applying both brakes, front more than rear) and pulled over, light went out. Happened two more times before I got in to Palmer Lake. When I got there I hopped online to search it out. Seems it's a well known issue with the front brake switch located inside the master cylinder assembly.

Called the dealer-it's open Sundays for everything but bike sales (in accordance with state law), talked to a service writer and he was well aware of the situation. Dropped it off Wednesday, we noticed the brake light would sometimes stay on when applying the front brake. The service writer called me yesterday, confirmed the problem, being handled under warranty.

Anyone else ever run in to this?

[Great-Kazoo]

It's been an issue in earlier year HD's. Seems the housing to brake lever sometimes was "loose enough" (Not as in OH SHIT) my brake lever just came off. But it caused the switch to activate. Then there was the updated front switch which went through 2 revisions ? before it actually was an inventoried part.

The quick fix was to loosen the master cylinder housing, give it aqucik rab with soft face hammer, retighten and call it good.

Lets not forget IIRC 74516-79A? voltage regulator that went through X updates and was B/O for maybe 4-6 months before it was released.

[Doc45]

Makes sense. The "on the road" fix was to just nudge the brake lever forward (talking about centimeters lol), immediately the light went out. Yeah I remember problems with the voltage regulator on some older models.

[ColoradoTJ]

I have never had this issue. Only "Hog" I can afford....

[vossman]

That's the fuel efficient Hog huh?

[Doc45]

Is that a Colorado Hog?