So, last night I bolted on the new speedo I bought from JimD54, and it works great. Looks a lot better on the bike, too. The orange numerals and orange illumination are so much clearer to see than the white numerals and green illumination on my stock instruments. The chrome housings are definitely sharp too. Thanks again, Jim.
I want to get everyone’s input on a few things, though. There are two pigtails of wires coming from the back of both speedos. Each has two wires. I removed my headlight and sorted through the rats nest of wires to carefully rewire my new speedo one wire at a time. One pigtail had blue and black wires with bullet connectors. I just matched color to color, one at a time, and the illumination in the speedo works. The other pigtail has a white striped wire and I believe a black wire, (I’m writing this at work) but here’s my issue- these wires on the “new” speedo come to a plastic connector, and the stock wiring in my bucket and stock speedo is all bullet connecters. It seems a shame to cut the stock plastic connecter off the nice working speedo to replace with bullet connecters but I don’t really see a way around it. The only alternative I can think of would be to use a couple splice connectors with new wires/bullet connecters. I know they’re kind of ghetto but then if I ever wanted to swap speedos again I could just remove the splices and I wouldn't have completely butchered the nice Stock connecter.
Thoughts?
Also, the new speedo lights up as soon as I turn the key, whereas the old one, (and the stock Tach that I havent swapped out yet), dont light up until I turn the lights on. I am assuming that after I connect the remaining wires that maybe that will fix that issue. The other question I have is about rhe placement of the ignition tumbler. My stock 77 cluster has the ignition key built into it. The cluster that came with the complete setup I bought from Jim does NOT have a place for a key, but I think it looks a LOT better, and I would rather use the whole setup. Where/how do I relocate my key to? Is there a key switch mount I can buy somewhere?
I want to get everyone’s input on a few things, though. There are two pigtails of wires coming from the back of both speedos. Each has two wires. I removed my headlight and sorted through the rats nest of wires to carefully rewire my new speedo one wire at a time. One pigtail had blue and black wires with bullet connectors. I just matched color to color, one at a time, and the illumination in the speedo works. The other pigtail has a white striped wire and I believe a black wire, (I’m writing this at work) but here’s my issue- these wires on the “new” speedo come to a plastic connector, and the stock wiring in my bucket and stock speedo is all bullet connecters. It seems a shame to cut the stock plastic connecter off the nice working speedo to replace with bullet connecters but I don’t really see a way around it. The only alternative I can think of would be to use a couple splice connectors with new wires/bullet connecters. I know they’re kind of ghetto but then if I ever wanted to swap speedos again I could just remove the splices and I wouldn't have completely butchered the nice Stock connecter.
Thoughts?
Also, the new speedo lights up as soon as I turn the key, whereas the old one, (and the stock Tach that I havent swapped out yet), dont light up until I turn the lights on. I am assuming that after I connect the remaining wires that maybe that will fix that issue. The other question I have is about rhe placement of the ignition tumbler. My stock 77 cluster has the ignition key built into it. The cluster that came with the complete setup I bought from Jim does NOT have a place for a key, but I think it looks a LOT better, and I would rather use the whole setup. Where/how do I relocate my key to? Is there a key switch mount I can buy somewhere?
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