Yesterday I was riding down the road at night on my 06 SGand went to trip my odometer to check my mleage inrelation to the gas gauge, and there was nothing there. I mean nothing but the round hole where the rubber cover and the actual trip button thatwould normally stick out. So, since the actual button/switch is obviously attached to a cable I can only assume it fell back into the inner fairing and the rubber cover popped off.

Has this happened to anyone else? Looks like I'm gonna have to remove the outer fairing to get inside. I know many of you have done that for one reason or another, plus I do have a shudder on the left side that seems a bit more than normal that could be looked at, so how hard is it to remove it and take a look? Any special tools? Seriously not a handi-man so shoot me straight..is this one of those piece of cake, a child can do it kind of things, or based on my lack of mechanical skills is this something I'm better off turning over to the HD shop when I take it in for service?

 

Well, well - another knobbie bites the dust- maybe this is a factory DEFECT!!!!!! (I knew it wasn't just me.)

HELLO HARLEY - ANYBODY HOME??????????

Check out my story in this thread I started two months ago on the same issue [:-][:-][:-]

https://www.hdforums.com/m_1420196/tm.htm

GOOD LUCK screwing that baby back on - pain in the A$$.

Careful - LockTite may mess up the switch like it did mine.

But I preferred to do it rather than the stealer doing a half a$$ job and having it happen again and again and again...................

 

Same thing happen to me a couple weeks ago. 07 Ultra. Took it into the dealership, still under warranty. Took them about 30 minutes.

 

Being you have an 06, is it under warranty still?
I wonder if it would help to put some Loc-Tite on the replacement boot so this doesn't happen again.


I'll be right back............................................I' m going to the garage to check mine.

 

The switch is plastic and the boot is rubber with a plastic insert. C'mon, loc-tite? I have seen this happen a few times, however each time the owner would have noticed the switch being loose before it fell into the fairing. Lefty loosy- righty tighty would save 30 minutes of warranty work. You guys spend 30 minutes at a dealer and 15 minutes posting about soemthing coming loose and want a recall? I guess I was raised different. Warranty or not, my time is more important. Bad post.

 

Wow, I wouldn't call it a bad post. The guy just wanted to know if others had the same issue. And if he could take care of it himself. Whether or not he should have checked it before hand is not his post or comment. I am sure he will make sure to keep an eye on it and other parts, in the future. Not all of us have owned harley's before. And not all of us know what to look for. Back off a bit gutman.

 

i remember reading the other post a few months ago and ws grateful for it . I went right out to the garage and checked mine and sure enough - it was loose!

Thanks for the reminders.

GREAT POST!

 

I agree 100% Smitty as I did the same thing and found mine loose. Thing was, mine was giving me fits trying to switch from trip A to B etc... I pulled the rubber off and tried to screw on the plasic "o" ring, no problem there. But once the "O" ring was on, I couldn't get the rubber back on around it. So to try and help our friend...here's what I did, someone will jump in and correct me if I have the number of screwswrong please!

1. Removing the fairing isn'ta big of a deal, I didn't have to remove mine completely to reach
my hand in just to tighten my trip button up.

2. Remove the screws holding the windshiled on I think there are three or four of them. They
are the torx type I don't remember the torx number, but the torx set I got from Sears has
the sizes I need even the #27 (I think that the one that is not standard in sets???)

3. There are 3 screws on the inside of the fairing (I think it's three and not four). But two are
obvious as they would hold on your fairing air deflector wings. The other one is a bit harder
to see. If you are on the left side of the bike (like you are sitting on it), turn the front wheel
to the right then look under the lower fairing kind of in front of the gas tank, it is kind of
hidden and tricky to locate. At least it was for me the first time I tried to find it even with
the maintenance manual. Same thing on the right side of the bike.

Note: I didn't have to remove these "hidden" two screws to fix my tripbutton, I just had to
loosen them up a bit so the fairing would tip forward.This gave me plenty of room to get
my hand in there to hold the back of the trip buttonin place.

If you have to take the front completely off (I haven't had to do this yet even to swap out
my front speakers. I don't know if the lights or any electrical cords are attached.

4. To get the button back on I put the "O" ring back inside the rubber cover, pushed the trip
button through the hole as far as I could get it and screwed the button back on. I then used
a very skinny pair of needle nose plyers to try and get it a bit tigheter. I didn't use locktite.

5. Tighten up the screws on your fairing and good to go.

It took me maybe 15 - 20 minutes. At each fill-up now, I always reset my trip to zero and try to
tighten the button.

Hope this helps,
Joe

Joe

 

Now there's a real helpful reply...thanks Gut I feel horrible now not "noticing the switch being loose before it fell into the fairing
Thank your for keeping us all on the straight and narrow GUT[sm=groupwave.gif] What a guy!

 

Locktight on mine. Nice and tight!!

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