Grumpy Old Bastard
Has anyone fitted a speedohealer to a K8 gixxer sixxer?
Care to give me any pointers? Like where you fitted it, where the speed sensor is located (under the tank?), what you pulled off the bike to fit it, where you ran the wiring and so forth and so on...
All handy hints gratefully received. May the biker gods smile upon your endeavours...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Tearing Choppa a new A'Hole
If you're talking about the original speed sensor and where it's located, it's on the end of the countershaft sprocket. If you didn't know that you should perhaps leave the cool bike to the young fellas you silly old bugger.
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Grumpy Old Bastard
Originally Posted by White trash
If you're talking about the original speed sensor and where it's located, it's on the end of the countershaft sprocket. If you didn't know that you should perhaps leave the cool bike to the young fellas you silly old bugger.
The electrical device - the one with the black/red, black/white, black wires...that the healer plugs into...
EDIT: As you were - what I really need is the connector, not the unit...anyway. I'll find it even without help from certain young whippersnappers...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
i'm motarded
Mabel and I just read the instructions, it was easy as pie.
Fanny
Grumpy Old Bastard
Read the instructions, huh. Never thought of THAT!...mmmm I just might be able to do that if I try real hard I suppose...
I've found an online guide anyway but it seems to be totally over fussy to me. I bet I can find an easier way - nothing like a bit of brute force and ignorance...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
i'm motarded
Hey if a couple of Lesbians can figure it out, I am sure a Grumpy Old Bastard will be fine.
Fanny
Grumpy Old Bastard
Hey if a couple of Lesbians can figure it out, I am sure a Grumpy Old Bastard will be fine.
Fanny
I wouldn't be so sure of that - two whole brains ought to best one half brain any day...
I don't even have the healer in my hot little hands yet. I usually find that once I poke about a bit I can find all I need to know - I managed quite a few mods on the SVS when I had that. Without blowing anything up either...
I learned a lot on my first bike - old and obsolescent - ya just had to fake stuff...once you'd pulled it apart you HAD to learn to get it back together again...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Hardcore Biker
why's your speedo out? Change the sprockets?
Grumpy Old Bastard
Nah - no change of anything. Put it down to "Factory Optimism"
It over-reads by around 9% according to a GPS I checked it against - just too much for me to be happy with. So after six months, I decided I wanted to mess with it...sigh - every bike I have I swear I'll not meddle with - and six months down the track it's "hmmmm - I could always..mumblemuttermutterngngnrrrr..."
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Grumpy Old Bastard
Speedohealer arrived today.
Now to get meddling...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Grumpy Old Bastard
I need midget hands to undo that friggin' speed sensor coupling...my fat mitts just won't fit in that tiny space...
Besides, I need two hands to undo the thing (even if I could get 'em in there) and a third hand to hold the torch so's I can actually see...
Gave up this morning - didn't have forty hours to spare to complete the job. Verily, 'tis a mindfucker...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Forum whore
Old people these days. No determination, can't see anything through and give up as soon as the going gets tough.
Grumpy Old Bastard
Young whippersnapper!
I only gave up because I had to go to work...but, like Mr Schwarzeneggar, "I'll be baaaaack..."
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Grumpy Old Bastard
WTF? Either the unit is scrambled, or I am...(or maybe both..?)
Wothca reckon about this lot then, eh?
- Installed the unit this morning after finally getting to the sensor coupling by removing the gas tank...
- Plugged in the wiring harness as per instructions. Not hard, it only goes in one way. The clips all clicked into place.
- Ran the test mode. Which is where things strayed a little from expectations...
* held SEL button and turned on ignition. "t" appeared. Released button. Speedo read "something other than zero" (134 in fact). All good so far.
* Rotated back wheel - by hand. "t" did NOT blink. Not good. Started engine and "t" did blink. BUT the speedo began to generate random numbers...???
* Exited test mode thinking that maybe this was what was supposed to happen....
At which point I programmed the unit and went to road test it. Display on unit was fine when ignition switched on - it did what the book said.
BUT. Once I started the engine, the speedo began generating random numbers again. Which it continued to do.
So I pulled everything apart again and checked the couplings. Still looked fine. Undid and reclipped the couplings just to be sure. Like before, they only go in one way and the clips clicked shut. Further testing returned the same result - random numbers generated on the speedo once the engine is started...
So I have no further ideas.
Bastard!
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Hardcore Biker
revert to stock and live with the 10% discrepency.
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