'87 turn signal problems

[ichi]

I recently bought an '87 vfr 700 F2. I have been having trouble with the turn signals the last couple of weeks.

The problem is that sometimes the turn signals do not turn on. I will be riding down the road changing lanes and the turn signals will be working great, then next thing I know i try the signals and they won't turn on. after a while they just come back and i can use them again until the stop working again. I thought that maybe it was a fuse or something, because the first time it happened i checked the fuses and pushed them in a little bit, i don't really think they were loose, but they moved a bit. For the next few days it worked great without a single problem, but this morning it happened again. I checked the fuses again and this time wiggling them didn't help anything.

Has anyone else had this problem?

If so, What was the cause and how can i fix it?

If not, any ideas about what could be happening and what i can do to fix it?

[MrJoelieC]

20 year old bikes often have these kind of squirly issues. I'm willing to bet there is some corrosion in the switch itself. You could try dissassembling the switch assembly as mutch as you can and spray some silicon on the contacts to clean and lube them...

I'm slowly discovering I may have to do this to my kill switch... At foirst I was suspecting that one or both of my igniter boxes were causing a "hard to start" situation... but I soon discovered that if I wiggle/push on the kill switch I hear a click like it's making contact finally and boom it starts right up... so for the last 3 days I have been experimenting with not using the kill switch to kill the moter but use the key instead.... So far I have yet to have a dificult start situation....

[ichi]

thanks for your reply. I was hoping that i wouldn't get responses that said i should take my bike apart since i am in no way mechanically enclined. I also have no manual or anything that would tell me how to go about this.

[tbones86]

There's only one way to learn & I agree that it may be your switch assm. I don't know exactly how different the F2 models where other that the instrument cluster but some OE's where found of putting goofy little blinker timers inside their fancy instrument clusters around that time frame,may be an issue but I can't say if Honda did any of that.