Not sure if this will help. I pulled the tach cable off of my parts bike. Looks to be original.
Sheath is 30 3/4 inches.
Sheath is 30 3/4 inches.
Maybe they used TLAR manufacturing back then....Sheath is 30 3/4 inches.
...I pulled the tach cable off of my parts bike. Looks to be original.
Sheath is 30 3/4 inches...
Yours certainly fits better. I added a zip tie to the frame because I didn’t care for the way it looped forward away from the frame. I ordered the cable from Mikes. Here are some other XS2 reference photos.
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G'day 2M,My guess is your cable sheath may be 29-1/2", a bit shorter than mine.
Your cable is shorter, and looks too long.
My cable is longer, and looks too short.
The only differences I'm aware of are:
- Your cable routing would be shoved a bit rearward by the hydraulic manifold on the bottom bracket (triple tree).
- We use slightly different instrument mount plates. But your instruments look to be the same height as mine, comparing their spacing above the headlight shell.
I guess we'll see what Jim finds...
And, I've given thought to starting a different thread, "What on the XS650 is non-metric?"...
....except for the tires on most bikes, the valve stems and perhaps the base diameters of the light bulbs I think.
G'day 2M,
Just asking, but why do you quote imperial measurements when you are referring to a metric machine??
I would make sense to go all metric, wouldn't it? And stop measuring stuff in trotters, thumbs, arms, furlongs, horses, bushels, and all that other stuff that you all got from the Brits ages ago, and that the same Brits pretty much have abandoned, except for maybe the pintHonest Pete I didn't see this post before replying to 2M's new thread!
Not too many metric tape measures laying 'round USA junk drawers.
I'll drink to that!except for maybe the pint
I would make sense to go all metric, wouldn't it? And stop measuring stuff in trotters, thumbs, arms, furlongs, horses, bushels, and all that other stuff that you all got from the Brits ages ago, and that the same Brits pretty much have abandoned, except for maybe the pint
That was industry not wanting to retool their entire world. They had to do it anyways and Joe sixpack is stuck with the mess.At least the US stuck with one type of measuring. Canada has been on the fence since the ‘70s - metric for temperature, road distance, speed and gas - imperial for any other length, weight and volume.
Well, BSP, BSPP, NPT, and various metric pipe threads make my work interesting at times, when dealing with hydraulics and 2000 psi/139 bar pneumatics......That was industry not wanting to retool their entire world. They had to do it anyways and Joe sixpack is stuck with the mess.
PS pipe threads are mostly SAE with a little JIS jiggering. (of course)
At least the US stuck with one type of measuring. Canada has been on the fence since the ‘70s - metric for temperature, road distance, speed and gas - imperial for any other length, weight and volume.
I would make sense to go all metric, wouldn't it? And stop measuring stuff in trotters, thumbs, arms, furlongs, horses, bushels, and all that other stuff that you all got from the Brits ages ago, and that the same Brits pretty much have abandoned, except for maybe the pint