The left turn signal on the bike stopped working. I eventually narrowed it down to the switch. I dissassembled the switch and attempted to repair it by cleaning all the contacts, resoldering a couple leads, and putting more tension on the spring loaded contacts. In the end it was no use. The switch was just too worn out. I dont know if it was purely a mechanical issue or if some wire was split internally. 

Either way I decided to replace it with a new unit. Well this part is long since discontinued. I opted to buy a nearly identical looking switch from MikesXS. The new switch did not have a hazard switch. No biggie. I never used it anyways. The only bummer is that I had to crimp and solder on my own wire connector since the wiring was slightly different from the XS650. My hands had blisters be the time I was done cutting, crimping, trimming, and soldering all the wire connections.

The result of all this work is that the turn signals work again.

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Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg I thought tension on the ball was a bit low
Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg clean copper and further extruded the humps that make contact with rest of switch	Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg
Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg all reassembled, still doesn't work reliably	Smll Med Lrg original switch had a hazard switch	Smll Med Lrg new switch from mikesxs
Smll Med Lrg new connector from radio shack	Smll Med Lrg nearly all the wires match up directly	Smll Med Lrg old switch	Smll Med Lrg 2 old wiring harnesses, will be removed and spliced into 1 new connector
Smll Med Lrg connectors attached to turn signal switch leads	Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg
Smll Med Lrg wires connected before installation into wire harness to make sure all wiring working	Smll Med Lrg	Smll Med Lrg new connector, using nearly every space	Smll Med Lrg all done, new connector shown in the middle
Smll Med Lrg new switch installed, works perfectly