WARNING: check your odometer knob/button - before it is too late!!!
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Road Warrior
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From: BOSTON originally / APPLETON WI now
WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
Put on a couple hundredmiles on my '05 Ultra late this morning. Nice day for just cruzin around.
Stopped at a localgas station to fill her up so I could put on a couple more hundred in the afternoon before we get 10 straight days of rain.
Go to reset my trip odometer and the rubber **** (which is actually a threaded plastic nut) falls off exposing a threaded switch.
OK I'll just screw it back in - nope - couldn't get it back on - no support behindthe switch - this doesn't look good.
So I head home and as I am trying to put this stupidrubber **** / nut back on using a variety of tools, the freakin' switch falls into the fairing's BLACK HOLE. NO NO NO that didn't just happen. Gone.No where in sight. You gotta be kidding. Exactly what I was trying to avoid. $HIT HAPPENSI guess - now I gotta pull the whole damn fairing off [:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(] SOB.
Yep - lost some valuableriding time today because of this POS cheap A$$ design. I luv Harleys.
Word to the wise - check your **** before this happens to you!!! I had no clue mine was loose.
Oh yeah, and don't use Locktite (blue) for that nut like I did - it'll get into that switch and screw it up (makes it sticky)- then you'll have to soak the switch in contact cleaner.Fun afternoon huh???
Stopped at a localgas station to fill her up so I could put on a couple more hundred in the afternoon before we get 10 straight days of rain.
Go to reset my trip odometer and the rubber **** (which is actually a threaded plastic nut) falls off exposing a threaded switch.
OK I'll just screw it back in - nope - couldn't get it back on - no support behindthe switch - this doesn't look good.
So I head home and as I am trying to put this stupidrubber **** / nut back on using a variety of tools, the freakin' switch falls into the fairing's BLACK HOLE. NO NO NO that didn't just happen. Gone.No where in sight. You gotta be kidding. Exactly what I was trying to avoid. $HIT HAPPENSI guess - now I gotta pull the whole damn fairing off [:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(][:'(] SOB.
Yep - lost some valuableriding time today because of this POS cheap A$$ design. I luv Harleys.
Word to the wise - check your **** before this happens to you!!! I had no clue mine was loose.
Oh yeah, and don't use Locktite (blue) for that nut like I did - it'll get into that switch and screw it up (makes it sticky)- then you'll have to soak the switch in contact cleaner.Fun afternoon huh???
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From: Mass
RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
Let me get this straight...you interupted a 400 mile ride because your trip-meter reset button was loose? SAAAAYYY-WHAAAAAT?[sm=WTFsgign.gif]
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From: The Wasteland
RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
What is this "odometer ****/button" you speak of? Does my bike have one? Seriously though I dont think Ive ever even used mine.
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From: Lenexa, KS (KC)
RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
And, I'll tell you from experience there is NO WAY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH that you can screw it back on without taking off the fairing. At least I couldn't figure out a way to do it, and I sure tried.
Anyone know is there is something that can be done to lock it on (i.e. without using loctite, which doesn't work)?
Anyone know is there is something that can be done to lock it on (i.e. without using loctite, which doesn't work)?
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From: NORVA / Pittsboro, IN
RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
The only thing I did not check on the trike before we lit out for Chattanooga was the odometer reset cover. The loan officer pushed it into the fairing thinking she was reseting the meter. By the time I saw it in Bristol, it was just the little black hole. Got checked in at the Hotel and removed the fairing, just to make sure it would not short out. Stop in at Colboch's in Morristown, TN and aalthough they did not have one, they ordered one and shipped it to my home, no charge, as a spare. Good folks in East TN. Did get one in Chattanooga at Thunder Creek. Good folks there too.
If it screws on, believe it will screw loose.
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If it screws on, believe it will screw loose.
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RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
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RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
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RE: WARNING: check your odometer ****/button - before it is too late!!!
I lost my **** once. Hurt like hell, heart wise. Anyway, I bought another and put a small drop of Loc-Tite on it before I reinstalled it. End of problem...