Getting Her Going

Lol, i don't doubt your skill levels when it come to working and fixing hard problems concerning motorcycles or a lot of things, I do question the skill level of someone who can't prize a bezel lip loose.

What could go wrong..............the screw head burs before it seats. An easy thing to do when trying to.............well you know i don't have to explain
I didn't see a lip to pry so I found another way. I don't much care what you think of my skill level. Help if you want to, or not.
 
Some 3mm screws shot with my phone and blew up the image a bit

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Where there's a will, there are relatives. 😃
 
Some 3mm screws shot with my phone and blew up the image a bit

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Where there's a will, there are relatives. 😃
Gary, Thanks for doing this. I guess I'm incurably old-school as I never think of using my phone for stuff like this. Great idea though. Having said that, I will tell you that I was able to install the screws. Couldn't get it in using a screwdriver so I gripped it with a pair of pliers. Doing this I was able to force the screw in. I don't think I stripped anything so not sure why I couldn't get it to work with the screwdriver but sometimes these things remain life's little mysteries. Apparently, the threads were correct after all but just a really tight fit. Once I had the screw in using pliers I removed it and was able to install a fresh one using the screwdriver. Spray a little black paint and it doesn't look too bad. I'll save the hacked up screw to use on the speedo if needed.

Over the course of time dinking with this I managed to drop the part with the pointer needle and , of course, it broke. I cut a new needle from a piece of thin aluminum and epoxyed it onto the needle base. Spray a little red paint and I have what I think will be passable, if not pretty.

Next I'm using a piece of 4 inch shrink wrap from which I've cut a strip to go onto the tach base. I hope this will hold the 2 pieces together and eliminate the need to use epoxy for that since I'm not confident the epoxy will hold over time with all the vibration. Oh, well, if it doesn't work it's not that big of a deal to take it apart again and apply epoxy. I've topped it off with several tight wraps of electrical tape for added support.

The screw on the left is the new one. On the right is the original.
 

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If I explain why the join will b pulled apart when assembling the gauge to the cup b helping.

It will pull apart
If I understand correctly you think it will come apart as a product of putting it together? Or you think it won't withstand the stress of vibration over time?
 
I didn't see a lip to pry so I found another way. I don't much care what you think of my skill level. Help if you want to, or not.

2M posted the link to dismantling and repairing gauges that i made up with a tutorial of my own and of any threads relating to the repairing of gauges that other member had posted. Covers gauge from 70-83..............this also did, (now past tense), include the Rusty pile butchery thread, where i think you got the idea to get into your gauge................I did help indirectly + with posts, where one i questioned the advice given, (as you also pointed out the problem with the advice). Brute force won over the problem of a small piece of grit in a screw thread that could have turned out real bad. Lucky it didn't
 
2M posted the link to dismantling and repairing gauges that i made up with a tutorial of my own and of any threads relating to the repairing of gauges that other member had posted. Covers gauge from 70-83..............this also did, (now past tense), include the Rusty pile butchery thread, where i think you got the idea to get into your gauge................I did help indirectly + with posts, where one i questioned the advice given, (as you also pointed out the problem with the advice). Brute force won over the problem of a small piece of grit in a screw thread that could have turned out real bad. Lucky it didn't
Thanks for posting.

Maybe I didn't research enough. I expected there to be a noticeable lip so I thought those threads were probably for a different model. I didn't see any posts saying that cutting wasn't a good idea. Maybe they were there and I just missed them. By the time I saw your post saying that my bike was the same I'd already cut it.

I think my repair is pretty solid so I'm going to go with it. I don't think there's all that much pressure on the upper part but if it doesn't hold up I'll have to go back in and work out another solution. As I said, it's not that difficult to access. As far as forcing the screw, I wasn't pushing all that hard and it wasn't resisting that much. If it did maybe I'd have stopped. If not and it broke then I'd have no choice but to drill it out and tap a new thread.

What the Hell! Life's an adventure. Sometimes things work out & sometimes they don't.

Cheers!
BK
 
Yea the whole project is a learning curve.

Main thing i have learned in my life when working on anything is. ................................If i never made a mistake i have never done anything......................any mistake i did make, (and there are plenty), it was/is the quality of the fix, and have i made the repair to a standard where the mistake cannot be seen...............that is where the quality of workmanship shows, or doesn't if done properly done
 
If I understand correctly you think it will come apart as a product of putting it together? Or you think it won't withstand the stress of vibration over time?
When attaching the cup to the Gauge the bezel of the gauge is pulled hard against the cup, (damper), when the nuts on the bottem are tightened, it's Pulling the bottom away/against the top.................if i am not explaining it well. You will understand when assembling
 
Yea the whole project is a learning curve.

Main thing i have learned in my life when working on anything is. ................................If i never made a mistake i have never done anything......................any mistake i did make, (and there are plenty), it was/is the quality of the fix, and have i made the repair to a standard where the mistake cannot be seen...............that is where the quality of workmanship shows, or doesn't if done properly done
Yes, we can agree on this.
 
When attaching the cup to the Gauge the bezel of the gauge is pulled hard against the cup, (damper), when the nuts on the bottem are tightened, it's Pulling the bottom away/against the top.................if i am not explaining it well. You will understand when assembling
Yes, because of the rubber O ring. Which I don't have because mine have disintegrated. I will have to find something to put in there.
 
When attaching the cup to the Gauge the bezel of the gauge is pulled hard against the cup, (damper), when the nuts on the bottem are tightened, it's Pulling the bottom away/against the top.................if i am not explaining it well. You will understand when assembling
Skull, I am taking your advice, sort of. I've decided you're correct that what I had won't be strong enough to hold up so I am reinforcing the connection between top half and bottom half by strips of plumber's tape cut to size and attached with screws. Don't know yet if this will hold as it might be possible for the screws to work their way out. I've used thread locker and will also run a strip of electrical tape around to keep screws in place. Well, you don't know if you don't try. When I get ready to work on the speedo I will try to use your method of disassembly.

I'm going to try replacing the rubber damper with door insulating rubber. Not sure yet if this will work but it looks good. I just have a tough time paying $30 for that little piece of rubber.

Meanwhile, I've had other problems. Though it's only been about 6 weeks since I cleaned the carbs and put in fresh gas my fuel filter became clogged with some whitish crud and wouldn't allow gas to flow. Had to take carbs off AGAIN and clean them. Tank seemed to have small amounts of the whitish stuff so I'm flushing it out again. I don't know why this happened as I've never had this before. For now, at least, I'm going to use E0 gasoline to prevent a recurrence of the invasion of the white crud.

Still not ready to ride as I have some lights that aren't working. If you think my skill level on this is bad you'd cringe if you saw me trying to do electrical work. ;)
 

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