Hi guys, I am replacing my tank with a Yam 650 as per smokingblue (thanks for the idea, by the way) and with the big ass tire and Kaw pulleys the speedo is 22% off so I'm ditching it and going with just phone gps and some led idiot lights. How have people capped off the speedo drive at the engine? Is there something that fits the thread and seals it ? Or do I have to (blank)-rig it? How have others done it? Thanks in advance.

I have a metal lathe, and I made a small stainless button that fit inside the cable nut (had to cut apart and old cable to get the nut).

Kenny G wrote on 02/23/16 at 09:45:38:


For years I was fighting the chatter on my lathe, as it was there from the very first day I bought the lathe.....and I couldn't do anything to make it go away.  At first I figured that I was doing something wrong, and I had the wrong cutting tool shape, depth of cut, rate of feed, type of material, etc.  And any changes I made didn't matter....the lathe speed or cutting feed changes would alter the shape of the pattern - but it was always there.  Even when cutting soft PVC pipe it would make a pattern - so I couldn't believe that tool chatter was an issue.    

I began to consider that maybe the very expensive head stock bearings were bad - then earlier this year I noticed that even when you were not cutting....you could feel a strong vibration in the levers and dials of the lathe.  I unhooked the motor....and when the motor was running by itself and no pulley on the motor...the lathe was still vibrating.  I had the motor rebuilt - then I rewired the electric feed and directional switch......and the vibration went away.  I believe the motor was wired incorrectly.

The lathe works really well now!

In the photo below you can see the marks left in the material when I was trying to use the lathe a year ago......and the shiny part on the right side is the way the lathe cuts after having worked on the motor.