CHAPTER 19 - LIGHTS, INSTRUMENTS & SWITCHES

[catteeclan]

Funny you should mention that, mine has a buzz at a certain rev. When I first heard it I thought it was the cam chain. Couldn't be that coz I'd only just put it together with a new one.
If it's a common fault it'll make it harder finding a good one.

[Confucious]

I don't know how you hear buzzing ? You have to wear earplugs Cat ! The reason I noticed is that during night riding the only thing I could see now and again was the top of trees ....I wonder if the oncoming traffic thought it was a UFO approaching ?

[Rubberchicken]

BTDT, and no way can you get that unit open...

The domi and transalp headlights are slightly different, though I'm not sure if they're similar enough that a TA light can be bodged into a dommie nose. Thought about giving it a go, but found a dommie light on german ebay instead.

What happened on mine was that the right hand bottom wotsit came off, rattling about like nothing else and causing the reflector to tip upwards and to the left straight into oncoming traffic. They didn't like that.

[veodoble]

Hi people!

First of all, please excuse any mistakes about names of parts of the bike, I'm spanish and I'm not very sure about the designation of pieces! About the speedo breakdown, I've got something to add: it happened to me in a long trip I did to the south. While still in town, before departing I realized that the speedo didn't work, and since I didn't want to travel with no hints of what amount of fuel I still had, I decided to go to a Honda store and buy one cable. But when I took the old cable out I noticed that it was not broken, so it could only be the white nylon sprocket that transforms circular movement to linear (cable) and is encased in an alluminim case. So I bought one and replaced it. The old one had 95.000 kms and was completely worn out, with no "teeth", just round shaped. Changed it and off I went. But 600 kms after that, the speedo broke down again. It was pretty strange to break 2 in the same day. I had to leave it because there were no Honda stores around, so I travelled the rest of the trip paying special attention to fuel and distance.

I returned to Barcelona and went to the Honda store where I bought the sprocket, to see if warranty covered the issue. But they started to ask me the mileage of the bike, whether if I had changed the sprocket once, etc. And they said to me that maybe after thousands and thousands of kms the white nylon that forms the "teeth" of that sprocket had turned into a microscopic dust, which combined with the dense grease that lubricates the whole thing had made it completely hard to spin. That turned out to be true as I saw later. They mechanic was friendly enough to explain me how to fix it without buying the entire piece set, which is aluminium drilled and quite expensive! And what I did is: first take apart the front wheel and take the whole piece to the desk. Then you take apart the broken white sprocket and with a brush clean as much grease as you can. And then, with a vertical drill or any drill that you can adjust speed, make a 2-3 mm hole just in the bottom of the aluminium case. Then put it in a recipient with gasoline and make that steel screw inside spin for a while, until any trace of grease is cleansed and the thing is clean (I did it attaching the speedo-cable to the drill and just spinning, as in real life would work). You'll see the liquid very dirty and FULL of microscopic dust that shines under light. Now it's clean and ready to run another 100.000 kms. I used Nural to refill the drilled hole, let it dry properly (some hours), put the right amount of dense grease again, put the new white sprocket, and, by the way, grease the cable so you have it everything lubricated!

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I hope my explanation was useful (It would have been shorter if I explained it in my language )

Cheers

[77rons]

any chance of getting the foto's back on to view?

[switch]

any chance of getting the foto's back on to view?

Get what back exactly?

[77rons]

the two icons at the bottom, i'm assuming they're meant to be pictures.