Here's a cheap trip speedo knob fix!
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From: north eastern Pa.
Here's a cheap trip speedo **** fix!
I bought my '90 Electra Glide Sport a few months ago.
"Hmmm, no trip ****, oh well".
I found it in the windshield bag, tiny screw is AWOL.
Spend like $1.25 for a new one, "looka how nice"!
100 miles later the screw is missing???
"Now I know I tightened it good". The **** is like 3" long, so the vibration must be pretty freakin good.
Get another screw, tighen it up pretty good.
Flash foreward like 3 weeks
Last night I was installing my new windshield, whilist it was off I took the speedo out of the housing to spray it, (looks a bit ratty).
Again the screw was loose???
Put it all back together and tighten the screw and WHAM! it hits me...
On my off road bikes I was always losing the trip screw and that makes running an enduro a pain in the dupa!
I took a 8 penny nail, (I think), measured the distance from the screw head to the tip of the inside of the ****, add like 1/32" for good measure.
cut it lenth to fit inside the trip **** to press against the screw.
Sprayed the head black, (to hide it), inserted it, putting a bit of black silcone gasket maker on the head to hold it in place.
If I want to get at the screw, peel the silcone off and poof! it's there.
The nail holds the screw in place, so it won't back out.
This has worked well for alot of years on my KTMs speedo *****.
I don't have to put any blue lock tite on the screw, so I can get it off easier, and it'll stay put.
That should hold that bugger in!
Joe
If it's a bike there must be a fix somewhere!
"Hmmm, no trip ****, oh well".
I found it in the windshield bag, tiny screw is AWOL.
Spend like $1.25 for a new one, "looka how nice"!
100 miles later the screw is missing???
"Now I know I tightened it good". The **** is like 3" long, so the vibration must be pretty freakin good.
Get another screw, tighen it up pretty good.
Flash foreward like 3 weeks
Last night I was installing my new windshield, whilist it was off I took the speedo out of the housing to spray it, (looks a bit ratty).
Again the screw was loose???
Put it all back together and tighten the screw and WHAM! it hits me...
On my off road bikes I was always losing the trip screw and that makes running an enduro a pain in the dupa!
I took a 8 penny nail, (I think), measured the distance from the screw head to the tip of the inside of the ****, add like 1/32" for good measure.
cut it lenth to fit inside the trip **** to press against the screw.
Sprayed the head black, (to hide it), inserted it, putting a bit of black silcone gasket maker on the head to hold it in place.
If I want to get at the screw, peel the silcone off and poof! it's there.
The nail holds the screw in place, so it won't back out.
This has worked well for alot of years on my KTMs speedo *****.
I don't have to put any blue lock tite on the screw, so I can get it off easier, and it'll stay put.
That should hold that bugger in!
Joe
If it's a bike there must be a fix somewhere!
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From: Bedford UK
Joe,
That is a remarkable fix! Deserves an award I'm sure.
Having owned my FLHS from new I've lost that tiny screw (must be the smallest part on the whole bike!) on the garage floor a few times, but always found it.
It also complies with Brown's Law. The smaller a part is, the greater the effort required in solving the problems it creates!
Well done! Deserves cake....
That is a remarkable fix! Deserves an award I'm sure.
Having owned my FLHS from new I've lost that tiny screw (must be the smallest part on the whole bike!) on the garage floor a few times, but always found it.It also complies with Brown's Law. The smaller a part is, the greater the effort required in solving the problems it creates!
Well done! Deserves cake....
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Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Deep in the heart of New Jersey
I has sorta the same problem . The trip set shaft had fallen inside the fairing due to the nut missing. So while I was at the dealer I thought I'd pic one up. They told me it's part of the speedo assembly ,and I'd have to buy a new speedo to get the nut for the shaft. But the guy was cool and went into the back of the shop, and came out with one gratis from an wrecked bike.,,
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From: north eastern Pa.
You'd think that ANY part SHOULD be available from H.D. ( there has to be a ben full of all those tiny parts at the factory???, but after 40 years of wrenching on just about ALL kinds of bikes, I've found they like to do that,
"Oh that .22 nut isn't available, but for $250, I can get you the entire assy.!!!
" If I wanted the entire assy., I'd order the entire assy"!
Joe
Thank God for bike junk yards!
"Oh that .22 nut isn't available, but for $250, I can get you the entire assy.!!!
" If I wanted the entire assy., I'd order the entire assy"!
Joe
Thank God for bike junk yards!
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