Finally found a chink in buddys grizzly. Did a ride on some new private land this evening after the football game and at dusk i noticed his taillight bright as heck…and realized no brighter when id watch him grab the lever.

So got back here and checked both micro switches for the hand brake front and rear brakes, micro switches both opened/closed correctly. Pulled rack and plastic off to get access to bulb to make sure it wasnt installed 180 off..that was fine. Turned lights off and the brakes light came on but it was dimmer…like what a running light would look like, turned lights on and blinding light.

Traced wires on harness and there were 3 wires, yellow/blue/black….i just unplugged and switched the yellow/blue wires (didnt pay attention to bike side of harness at the time i just wanted to redirect juice to opposite side of bulb)…after seeing it worked properly, thats when we noticed the wires were now color coded correctly..yellow to yellow and blue to blue…so musta been a color blind guy on assembly line that day, 1 black and 2 gray wires…50/50 shot of getting it right.

So finally a damn problem with that machine, sucks it was a free simple fix vs all the crap mines had, but a problem non the less….fricken junk azz yamaha.