Bike hasn't been wet since summer. Had rotator cuff surgery. Now I'm back riding and the speedo keeps fogging up with moisture. can't even see the mileage readout. Been in a garage the whole time. Any fix on this. Took a hair dryer and tried to warm it up but still fogging.13SG

 

Normal Bro, Just ride. I guess if you wanted to you can seal up the back of it with some silicone and remove the lens and seal it with silicone as well but it clears up. JUST ride! Mine does the same thing when it's cold out.

 

It will clear with heat sun and time. The king is easy as it is in the sun. My glide took a bit longer to clear.

 

Take a hair dryer and put it on the lens until it cleans up , and that should last a while.

 

Very common problem when cooler weather arrives. It will dry out on it's own. They have been doing that for years. I heard the service writer tell a lady a while back that the factory won't replace either the tach or the speedo if they fog up. The lady also complained that her ambient air temp was off by about 10 degrees. He told her they all do that and that there was nothing the MOCO would do about it. The salesmen should tell new prospective owners about all the **** that doesn't work or gives trouble before the sale is made. Ya, that was a good one, right?

 

Put the offending gauge in a sealed container with a handful of rice. Let it sit for a week or so. Just like putting a few grains of rice in a salt shaker will keep the salt from clumping because the grains of rice absorb any moisture in the salt shaker; rice can do the same for a gauge. It helps to place the sealed container somewhere that the temperature rises and falls over time . . . like a window sill. It helps move moist air out of and dry air into the gauge as the air heats and cools. This works better if you use a real desiccant, but rice also works OK with a bit of time.

If you have a vacuum pump that can pull a vacuum of at least 28.5" at sea level . . . and a container that can handle this sort of a vacuum and is large enough to hold the gauge . . . you can remove all (and I do mean ALL) of the moisture within 20 to 30 minutes.

 

I tried the hair dryer trick already. Not going to disassemble, just going to live with it. I know my reset button doesn't work when it gets wet. Hoping someone had a easy fix. Thanks guys

 

I did all of the above and a week later the speedo took a dump....

Jerry

 

I had a bike do that.
The best remedy I found was to park the bike in way that the sun shined on the gage for a few hours.