That rack/fender combo is sweettttYes it is my bike. Been a work in progress for the last 15 or so months. Runs good...now lol!
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Hi ramblin,
dontcha just want to beat on the cheapskate who dreamed up coining the bezel on instead of having it threaded into place?
And your tach face ain't even sun-faded either so it's well worth the effort of re-prying the bezel now that you've learned the trick of it.
Rather than prying up the bezel's rear flange to access my speedo's loose face I cut it into two C-shapes with a thin Dremel wheel and pulled them off sideways. Stuck 'em back again with epoxy. Warning! That trick only works once.
BTW, until you decide on fix vs replace, pull the tach drive cable inner.
Oh, man. You had me. My blood was boiling. I've ridden the trail 3 times and have friends who plan on it. I was ready to call my congressman until I realized "hey this is Canada we're talking about."
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Ramblin5, if you didn't put Locktite on the tach face plate screws, they will probably vibrate out again. I recently fixed this issue on mine. Gary's "pry-open" technique works well but I found the electrical tape pulled flecks of the paint off the bezel ring when I removed it. I think I will be using a ring of plastic cut from an empty chip dip or cottage cheese container in the future. It should protect the bezel sides from the hose clamp without sticking to them and pulling the paint off.
I think what caused my problem in the first place was worn damper mounts. The tach was loose in the housing and could shake around. I added o-rings to the damper rubbers, shimming them, and this tightened things up.
The damper mounts I was talking about are the little top hat shaped ones on the bottom mounting studs. These are the mounts that hold the instrument into it's housing.
I'll check them out. Thanks.Well, they may look good but could still be squished down. If they are, they don't allow the mounting nuts to pull the instrument down into the housing enough to compress that big upper ring.