speedo and tacho needles both broke off ??

[hectic_aussie]

Riding along and I look down at the speedo all is fine , not speeding. Look back a few moments later WTF , speedo needle is gone ??? Thats weird I am thinking . But nevermind cause since the speedo spun round back to zero last ride the speedo has been noisey at times and I was thinking of replacing it .
But then about 5 minutes later I look down and the Tacho needle has also decided to do a runner on me . Now to me two needles breaking off without being able to touch them is odd .
So i'm off to glue some tooth picks onto my gauges until I can get some money to get new gauges.
Just thought I'd share this experience , can't find the damn camera atm , maybe pics of missing needles laters

 

[tom203]

You should slow down!

 

[makenzie71]

I had that happen...looked down and speedo was broken, but I was okay with it becuase I could still judge my speed from my tach...no sooner than I thought it the tach needle broke.

So I went with a trailtech vapor.

 

[hectic_aussie]

You should slow down!

If only the gs450 would go fast enough to even get to that side of the clock. mine only goes down hills , put it on any incline and turning the throttle makes it slow down , not go better

 

[tas850g]

Take the face cover off and put the needles back on. I just Took mine off and replaced the orange needle with the white one. Do a search here and it will show, with pictures, how to do this. It's very easy.

 

[tkent02]

If only the gs450 would go fast enough to even get to that side of the clock. mine only goes down hills , put it on any incline and turning the throttle makes it slow down , not go better

Who cares about the silly gauges, fix the engine.

 

[hectic_aussie]

Who cares about the silly gauges, fix the engine.

100% performance first , gauges can wait .

 

[Kerry]

... the speedo has been noisey at times and I was thinking of replacing it .

That noise is a high-frequency vibration (which I call "late-stage speedo/tach howl") which warns the gauges already in the afterlife that another is coming to join them soon.

That vibration can easily break off the 30-odd year old needle.

 

[hectic_aussie]

yeah , she was a bit dry in there . Bit of lube fixed the whining and the speedo is quiet again. Now I wish I had got in sooner before the needles snapped off. but procrastination is my middle name sadly