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Old May 11, 2012 | 12:12 PM
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I have a Dakota Digital gauge on my FatBoy which has all the sensors plugged into. At low speed, the speed reading is right, as soon as I get into higher speeds, the reading is all wrong. The RPM and signal lights displays seem to work OK.
Is it possible that a bad speedometer sensor (the one on the transmission) could give a good reading at lower speed and a bad one at higher speed? I was thinking it may be the connection to the gauge itself but then I would assume the RPM would be all wrong as well.

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Old May 12, 2012 | 10:02 AM
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I heard someone had a similar problem but it was with an analog dial. The needle was dragging on the faceplate. Probably not your problem with a digital dial.

I just installed a new combo speedo/tach on my fatboy lo. I really love it.

Checkitout:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XexFQ...e_gdata_player


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Old May 13, 2012 | 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by ironbat
I heard someone had a similar problem but it was with an analog dial. The needle was dragging on the faceplate. Probably not your problem with a digital dial.

I just installed a new combo speedo/tach on my fatboy lo. I really love it.

Checkitout:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XexFQ...e_gdata_player


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Old May 13, 2012 | 08:46 AM
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It won't work on your fatboy, '08 and up
 
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