I saved for 10 yrs & finally got a 2006 road king & on the way home the speedometer stopped working. I spent the last 3 days reading all these post but seams its always in conjuction with blinkers or something but mines only the speedometer.
I know you guys can lead me to the problem, and i thank you in advance.

Terry

 

easy to remove the speedo sensor from the top of the tranny and wipe it off with a rag...if the sensor has particles stuck to the magnet it won;t work.

the speedo sensor is held in place with an allen screw

try that, report back

welcome to the forums

mike

 

check sensor and then check the ground in. They sometimes break in the harness

 

thanks mike, i just ran to the shop & pulled the sensor out. It looked fine, I actually couldn't see anything on it.
OOH, What will I do, unplug the sensor & remove it from bike to see if ground is damaged?

T

 

ok heres update. I replaced the speed sensor & still no speedometer?? Where is this ground in you're talking about OOH?

 

I apologize for leaving off part of the answer -- it should be in the harness coming out of headlight bucket and going down the frame -- you should have a ground coming from the gauges into that part of the harness -- just splice into that ground and hook to another good ground. A wiring diagram is very helpful in chasing these problems -- if you have an ohm meter, connect it to the ground from the gauges and swing the forks back and forth with the handlebars -- thats how I found my ground problem -- in one position it read fine -- when swinging, it popped up.

 

i did buy a service manual but reading the wiring diag is like reading chinese to me. I will try to find a diff ground route though.
Thank you OOH

 

UPDATE
I ran the diag & got this code U1097. I cleared code & started the bike, then reran the diag & none appeared.
U1097- Loss of Speedometer Serial Data to ECM, but how do I fix this??

Terry

 

Any more suggestions before i drop for a new speedometer & just hope it fixes my problem??

Terry

 

still think you have a broken wire problem