Thats right Luke, TS250, 185, TF185, SP370, T500 etc etc they are all the same.
Reproduction suzuki brake light switches are available from
www.mcsonline.com.au You will have to look through their online catalogue, find the part number and then call your local dealer or just take a trip and vist them and they will look it up in their catalogue. I can also tell you that these switches are perfectly fine repro parts, even have the right colour wires. MCS also sell the repro of the suzuki brake lever perch for the brake light switch, From memory the clutch side its split perch, but hey who honestly wants non split perches unless they are doing a concourse resto.
Dog legs on PE'S were officiallly used on 82-84 models (same as TS185ER 79 onwards) Also 82-84 had a 2 piece rubber cover to allow quick access to the adjuster a bit like Magura ISDT levers, although its been a while since I’ve looked at the parts books, I think the 2 piece rubber set up may have only been for USA markets???
If you want cheap original genuine PE levers in dogleg or plain blades, just go looking on ebay or Alpha-Sports for NOS suzuki levers from the 70's or any TS185ER and you will find them everywhere. No need to pay the big dollars ordering them from Suzuki Australia for $70 or what ever they cost now. Now I’ve said that supplies will probably dry up now
I do know the brake lever assembly I quite expensive for what it is and is only sold complete.
Aftermarket companies have been making repro lever blades for suzukis for years so more often that not a lot of the bikes out there will have these levers and that’s why you can spot differences in the casting a little. The aftermarket ones now usually have brass bushes. Both OEM and the repros brake real easy, but at least the aftermarket blades are cheap. If you don’t like breaks, fit bark busters or fit Magura/Tommaselli/Domino or whatever aftermarket levers that are made from better materials. The mobs in Taiwan making these levers also make ‘forged’ options which are a lot better than the cast levers and OEM levers but they only seem to do them for the late 80’s/early 90’s stuff upwards with disc brakes.
Suzuki have also changed their castings over the years, just little different shapes/cut outs in certain spots, the balls that have bits cut out the bottom etc. I guess they have had many moulds over the years.
You can work out what models use the same levers as the PE's by punching the Australian model part numbers into Zedder cross reference and you will easily see that the PE levers are the same as all sorts of suzukis like GT500's RV125's etc etc
Im not going to do it for you though, Zedder is freely available off Lukes site.
I might do that Michael,i have 3 of those PE front brake perches but no original lever in any of them
MSC and other wholesalers like Cykel have replacement levers that you can use in your original perches. Pretty sure they have dog leg and plain blades, ive ordered them before but i can look it up to be sure. Only got the new MCS book the other week.
Don’t forget ebay though. Theres 1000’s of new/used/nos/repro/aftermarket levers on there for suzukis
Mario I ordered some perches and levers from suzuki for one of my 400's what came is not right the ones that are on the bike have the mirrror mounts and the spot for the brake switch I ordered from america and they probably weren't the same from new.
I haven't checked through suzuki aus maybe they would still be available?
Yeah thats a bit of a stuff up. It pays to check through the scanned parts books first and get the part numbers for the Australian model levers first, then type them into Alpha-sports part number search. USA PE's dont have mirrors or front brake switches. They do have them (the correct AUS PE levers), its just that they are not listed under any PE models. Either do the direct part number search or look up levers for a 78 TS or similar and they should be the same as whats in the Australian model parts drawing. To be sure check with zedder first though, again by direct typing in of the AUS part number and seeing what USA non PE models it matches.
Parts books are on Lukes site. Even if theres no 'PE400' parts book, just download the PE250T parts book. The controls are all the same. Its on Fabrices site also. About 13MB to download but well worth it.
