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Neutral switch plugs
« on: March 13, 2026, 11:49:16 AM »
Long shot but I’m going to ask anyway.

The bike is a V7ii. After taking the clutch housing off I managed to do some damage to the neutral switch. I had assumed I broke the wire inside the sheath, so I ordered a new one.

Now that it’s here, the plug end might be wrong, or it might be showing me what I actually broke.

If anyone here happens to now or in the past to have their switch out and can verify:

Does the switch plug side have one male and one female connection, or both female?

I am trying to figure out if the both male ends I see on the bike harness side is actually a broken connector jammed in the plug.

I don’t want to dig it out if I’m just doing damage to the harness side.






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Re: Neutral switch plugs
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2026, 03:03:32 PM »
I just checked my V7 III Rough. The neutral switch was shared on the small blocks from at least 2012 up to 2020 (there was a superceded part, though around 2018, maybe). On my V7 III Rough, the bike-side plug has one (maybe 2?) female receptacles, but the plug on the switch side has only one male blade.
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Re: Neutral switch plugs
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2026, 03:11:00 PM »
Thanks, very much appreciated.

My break then must be the male blade from the switch side has broken off in the bike harness side.

This is what I suspected. I’ve been trying to de pin this damn thing all morning. I hate connectors lol.

Thanks again!

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Re: Neutral switch plugs
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2026, 03:15:18 PM »
Thanks, very much appreciated.

My break then must be the male blade from the switch side has broken off in the bike harness side.

This is what I suspected. I’ve been trying to de pin this damn thing all morning. I hate connectors lol.

Look at it this way—if you can’t get the piece out of the pin receptacle, you’ll have the opportunity to splice on your next connector to a length as long as your heart desires!
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Re: Neutral switch plugs
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2026, 05:36:54 PM »
Look at it this way—if you can’t get the piece out of the pin receptacle, you’ll have the opportunity to splice on your next connector to a length as long as your heart desires!

I’ve got my replacement switch here, and I just ordered new plugs, I have a feeling the blade is jammed in and blocking the release. I may have to cut the plug off and remake it.

Fun. All because I forgot the plug was there to start with!

 


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