Okay, you guys ready for a good laugh? I mean a real belly splitter. If you've read any of my other posts when attempting to fix something, or some of the ignorant questions I have asked you probably won't be surprised by this. So, one of the two little screws holding the face plate on the tachometer had vibrated loose and I had recently read on the forums here how to take the bezel off to get to it. So I carefully remove the windshield so I can get to the nuts holding the tach to the instrument bracket, remove the headlamp so I can unplug the wires and then remove the tach. Now time to get that bezel off. Well I thought I understood, but after prying up the entire FRONT rim of the bezel I realized I was supposed to be working on the back rim. So another 30 minutes later and I have the bezel off and found the faceplate screw and put it back in and snugged the other one up as well. Took me another 20 minutes to get the bezel back on and then 15 more minutes to reassemble everything. I now have 2.5 hours invested and a mangled tach to show for my efforts. BUT at least my tach will be working again until I can buy a replacement. Cranked Lucy up and the tach needle doesn't move. WHAT? How can that be? Upon closer examination I see that I left the needle BELOW the little stop post so now it can't move.
Guess who is not going to remove the bezel again? Unless it will hurt the tach cable to have it hooked up and the needle being blocked from moving. Will it hurt it? Guess who is now searching for a replacement tach?
By the way, anyone got an old tach that will work on my '81 xs650? I'll be happy to pay the going rate.
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Well, I guess you’ll be able to go down the road in silence while getting really good fuel economy now that your engine won’t be visibly running....
Hmmmm....perhaps there is something wrong with my logic there.....