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ToesNose tach & speedo
08/23/12 at 18:48:17

OK finally got around to starting a post for the tach, speedo & stuff since I've had some time to work on it this week and have time to kill this evening Cheesy

I purchased the gauges from Dime City Cycles, the extended speedo cable which is a tach cable from a 73-77 GT 550 off FleaBay along with a Raptor petcock.

Speedo- wanted a speedo and idiot lights on the bar in periferal view, plus an odo $67.95 http://www.dimecitycycles.com/vintage-cafe-racer-caferacer-bobber-brat-choppe...

Tach- I know it's not needed, but hey I wanted one Wink

$68.95 http://www.dimecitycycles.com/vintage-cafe-racer-caferacer-bobber-brat-choppe...

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Re: ToesNose tach & speedo
Reply #1 - 08/23/12 at 18:58:14

I had read up on all the Tach related posts I could along with talking to a few friends who are mechanics and Emailing the guys at Dime City Cycles to nail down if this Tach would work, everything pointed to the fact that it would so I purchased it. I wanted to mount them on the bars and although there have been a number of people that have done the same in the past and had vibration issues, both with the gauges not functioning properly and the lights shaking dead, I wanted them up there and without the extra rubberized anti-vibration mounts that many people use. Worst case cenario I replace the bulbs with LED and or swap to the anti-vibration mounts later. Tongue

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only thing that I had to do to modify the mounts to fit was cut the rounded bottoms off the mounts. I just took them off with a Dremel, easy peasy.

Gauges mounted-

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #2 - 08/23/12 at 19:00:02 From the front-
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Re: ToesNose tach & speedo
Reply #3 - 08/23/12 at 19:07:35

Pulled the seat/tank and just wired everything onto the consol plug. The only thing I did different was I made the oil temp idiot light on the new speedo my left turn signal, I didn't feel like adding diodes and such and I wasn't planning on using the oil temp idiot light any way.

Then wired the tach pick-up to the negative on the coil (the one the black and yellow wire goes to)

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Reply #4 - 08/23/12 at 19:16:16

The tach cable from the 73-77 GT550 was the perfect length for the new speedo! (sorry I don't recall which post or who posted this info originally to give credit where it is due) I got it off FleaBay for $16.99 new with $4.95 shipping, but I did see a few used ones for less. Also picked up the Raptor petcock new for $24.50 including shipping. I ran the new cable along the same path as the clutch cable and there was plenty of room to spare.

Raptor was a breeze to instal, I touched up the paint on the frame under the gas tank since one of the previous owners must have had it off a number of times and didn't care about the stock petcock scratching the hell out of the paint Angry

The Raptor cleared the frame with ease and turns much smoother then my stock one did also Wink

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Reply #5 - 08/23/12 at 19:21:19

The Tach is slightly brighter then the Speddo, but it shows up with alot more contrast on the picture of them together no matter what angle I took a picture from LOL. They are both a really nice blue, not too bright or neon like in person. Yes the Tach works spot on! I didn't have a chance to take a ride to check the speedo or the vibration factor tonight, my wife is still out of town and I'm home alone with the sleeping toddler Wink

Speedo straigh on-

Tach straight pic-

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Reply #6 - 08/23/12 at 19:28:40

Next is to mock up a console with the voltmeter and possibly adding an oil temp gauge or a 12v accessory outlet along with a drink holder. I picked up some SunPro 1 1/2" mini gauges and a piece of black 3" PVC straight plumbing coupling to make a drink holder out of, and I have some carbon fiber hanging arounf to make the actual console out of. We'll see how that works out, it'll take a little bit of figuring I'm sure Cheesy

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #7 - 08/25/12 at 16:00:25 Scrapping the drink holder and I'm just going to make an insert for the voltmeter, here's a pic of the preliminary mock-up. I have the prototype made too, but it's drying and in pieces so pics to come on that
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SaVaGeEaRL Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 106 Georgetown, KY Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #8 - 08/25/12 at 16:08:13 Sweet! I want a setup just like this. Hopefully this winter when I'm not riding much. Do you have the stock rear tire?
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Re: ToesNose tach & speedo
Reply #9 - 08/26/12 at 06:34:28

Well wifey finally returned from her business trip, so I was able to take a ride this morning and test out the Tach & Speedo Cheesy

Everything was 100% spot on!

@4000 RPM
20 MPH in 1st gear
30 MPH in 2nd gear
45 MPH in 3rd gear
55 MPH in 4th gear

@5000 RPM
25 MPH in 1st gear
40 MPH in 2nd gear
55 MPH in 3rd gear

so everything corresponds with what the owner's manual lists as proper speed for RPM's in each gear Wink

SaVaGeEaRL yes everything is stock on the bike

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Pine Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1694 Mississippi, USA Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #10 - 08/27/12 at 06:27:32 Awesome.. simply awesome! So how was the vibration? Can the gauges be read good enough? I worry about them over severe bumps. Congratz!
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #11 - 08/27/12 at 08:22:26 I only had her on country road, but up to 60MPH very minimum vibration. The Tach housing was lightly shaking with no effect on the needle. And the Speedo was completely unaffected
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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #12 - 08/28/12 at 08:57:27 Well the first prototype for the tank gauge insert is almost finished. Just need to sand, prime & paint it Then if it's good enough cast a mold!
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rfw2003 Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1108 Yantis, TX	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #13 - 08/28/12 at 09:25:57 Looking good ToesNose
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Greg Serious Thumper Offline Molon Labe Posts: 1251 Southeast PA, uSA Gender:	Re: ToesNose tach & speedo Reply #14 - 08/28/12 at 09:31:15 Did you need to remove any metal from the caps on the handlebars to keep the bars tight?
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