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Old Sep 3, 2012 | 05:08 PM
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I never took the brake lever out of the perch. I just separated the switch housing with it still attached.
 
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Old Sep 3, 2012 | 05:20 PM
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Your thinking is now correct. That by itself is no guaranty that it is the extension kit causing your trouble, conversely no guaranty it isn't causing it. Going through everything which you fiddled with prior to the malfunction is a good way to start finding the problem. The stuff inside the handlebar is especially suspect if you had to pull very hard to get some of it through. That makes pulling a wire off a pin much more likely.
 
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