| Author | Message | ||
     Juniorkirk |
I was out for a ride yesterday and had a nice open stretch of road to open her up for the first time in awhile. Got her going pretty good, but as soon as i get back to cruising speeds i looked down and noticed that the tach needle is off by 1,000 RPM. Is this something that a new cluster will have to fix, or is there something i have to do? I turned it off and when i turned it back on, still the same thing, says it idles at 500 RPM now, which i dont think this bike could even run that low. | ||
| No_rice |
mine idled high per the tach, and ran high. i cycled the key on and off a few times and it would drop down a little bit each time until it bottomed out and reset its self. eventually i did get around to having it replaced though(actually about a month ago), but after the one instance and cycling it to reset, i never had another problem with it(except for the screen bleeding some black in from the edges.  | ||
| Thefleshrocket |
No_rice, I'm pretty sure pulling 14K RPM is grounds for voiding your warranty. | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
Kirk LOL mines at Adamec's right now with a new cluster on order for the same issue. mine continued to slip and by today it was about 1400 off the mark | ||
| No_rice |
No_rice, I'm pretty sure pulling 14K RPM is grounds for voiding your warranty. no one ever seems to read the text that goes with pics, ive posted that pic only a couple times and each time people start saying its gona blow up or void warrenty right after i said the tach was reading way off... gotta love it sorry, i read that and it comes off kinda rude. just was trying to make a point that people need to read!  (Message edited by no_rice on January 29, 2011) | ||
| Xl1200r |
Does the gear indicator display the correct gear, especially between 5th and 6th? If so, then maybe the needle slipped on the shaft? | ||
| No_rice |
they are 08's, no gear indicator, and its an electric signal to the tach. | ||
| Juniorkirk |
Ya, i cycled it on and off a couple of times and every time it stopped, it stopped below the 0 mark. I took it to Bigg's and they said they want to run a full diagnostic on it to find whats wrong, i tried telling them it's most likely just the needle that slipped, but they want to run a FULL TEST, there goes 2-3 hours of my next saturday sitting waiting for them to tell me that i was right from the start. They said if it does come down to it being the tach, they would just put it on order and give me a call when it comes in and bring the bike back then. Hopefully they plug it in and it says everything is just fine so i dont have to wait forever, i want to get more riding in. My goal is to have over 20,000 miles on her before i take her home in October, she has about 4,000 right now. (Message edited by juniorkirk on January 30, 2011) | ||
| No_rice |
yours and mine are not the only ones that have had tach problems. the whole cluster gets replaced. atleast on the handful of them i know about. lucky for me, my cluster was replaced and i was able to keep the old one(after it acting up that one time, i got it to reset everything and ran it for a good year before replacement and never had another problem functionally atleast) so now i have a back up if really need be down the road(or wrecked bike fixer...) |
