Hey guys!
So this weekend I worked on pulling controls off of the handlebars and pulling off the headlight bucket. I want to completely go through the controls and clean everything up and check all the wiring.
Can you believe how clean this 46 year old wiring is? I haven’t touched it.
I then started disassembly of the tachometer and speedometer so I could replace the roached gauge faces with replacements I have ordered from Diablo / Reproduction decals.
I sacrificed one of my little screwdrivers to make a tool that could peel that rolled metal lip up on the bezel.
Once you create a little space around the lip, I switched to a paint can opener that had the same shape and worked my way around slowly prying open the lip.
Now the bezel and glass can come off. Also the thin metal shadow ring can be carefully pried off, it’s stuck on with a very thin adhesive foam ring. ( which I will have to figure out how I’m going to recreate)
Next up I remove the needle, it’s just pressed on and I tried to carefully pull it off with my fingers, but no joy. So on to plan B, I got a couple of spoons from the kitchen ( please don’t tell my wife) and carefully pried up. Note: photo shows one spoon just to show placement, but I used two, and it popped right off.
One down one to go. So brimming with confidence I begin the speedometer, should work the same way.
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL
Or should I say fail. I read everything I could find prior to starting this and I watched videos on YouTube. But my memory failed me and I screwed up. I removed the back, and then removed the screw holding the tripometer knob, here’s where I went off the rails.
I read this statement when I was preparing for this
“Re: Speedo trip meter shaft. 70-73
It does indeed unscrew. The threads are backwards.(Lefty Tighty, Righty Loosey) I removed the E-clip inside the body that secures the bushing to free up the trip meter assembly, held the far end of the shaft that spins within the body being cautious not to let it spin, and backed the shaft off.
Done.”
What I remembered ( incorrectly ) was that to remove the knob , you had to unscrew it - right hand threads. I mangled my perfectly good 46 year old knob.
I stripped out the inside, and buggered the outside........sigh.
And I cannot figure out how to remove the odometer shaft. I thought it was supposed to unscrew clockwise. I cannot for the life of me figure it out and I was scarring up the shaft.
So finally I just said “ Stop the bleeding!”
And I walked away.
I could use some help here. I can’t get the chrome housing off the way it is.
If you know how to do this, please explain it to me in simple easy to understand language.
Thanks
Bob