Instrument needles

[Foxwood]

Had the brilliant idea to change the gauge faceplates on my Fazer and that procedure involved removing the needles from their axles. The speedo and fuel needles were pretty hard on, but in the end came off nicely. The tacho however, came out with the axle.  :'(




So got the new faceplates on and put the needles in what I remembered to be the position I took them off. Bullocks! Gave the instrument panel some power (no ignition): speedo jumps to 60 kph and fuel to 1/4 (even though I know that the tank is almost empty).  Got the engine running: tacho shows idle at ~2100 rpm (even though I know I've adjusted it to 1250 rpm) and after I turn the machine off, it doesn't drop to zero.


Speedo I fixed by taking the needle off again and putting it on a -60 kph placement, which is handily almost dead south on the clocks. Can't test the speedo on the road yet, because there's 15 cm of ice/snow outside my garage doors.


So now I'm guessing that the tacho just needs to be repositioned -2100 rpm of  it's current alignment? Or does that also need to be aligned first to dead south? Or does anyone know better?


The fuel meter was a bit weird even before I changed it, so I'm not too overly concerned with that one, but I'll try to align it properly also the next time I take the dials off.

[Foxwood]

To anybody whom may encounter this problem. I got mine aligned just fine but taking it off again and installing it in a position approx -2100 rpm. A bit fiddly and not so accurate work, but very much trial and error is the way to go. At least the idle now shows what it's supposed to and the tacho reacts nicely to the throttle.

[His Dudeness]

throw up a pic of your new clocks if you can :useless

[Foxwood]

throw up a pic of your new clocks if you can :useless

It's a bad pic, but you'll get the general idea. The background coloring is dark-blue and should shine through when lit, but because of the Yamaha lighting design it really doesn't work. So I'll probably trade the white LEDs I have in it for blue ones, but tbh it doesn't look too bad as it is (kinda lightish blue). At least the fuel gauge's faceplate is now looking newer than ever. For some reason the original one had become faded by the sun (apparently).

[His Dudeness]

Looks well. Nice job 8)

[reillypadraig]

Oh very nice, where did you locate those? I need to change mine as my clock say mph but as I found out recently the trip meter was going to fast to be mph it's actually kmh. Anyway it looks horrible as the guy that put it on left bubbles in it.

[Foxwood]

Oh very nice, where did you locate those? I need to change mine as my clock say mph but as I found out recently the trip meter was going to fast to be mph it's actually kmh. Anyway it looks horrible as the guy that put it on left bubbles in it.

These were from Poland via eBay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330861292815?s...1439.l2649

But not really top quality:

-The fuel gauge faceplate is smaller than the original, so had to tape over part of the fuel light, so it wouldn't shine out over the edges.
-The fuel gauge faceplate's attachment holes were not aligned correctly. Missed by a few millimeters, so used a small drill bit to open them up enough, to get the screws through.
-The holes for needle rest pegs are too big, but I got mine on just fine by using a small drop of plasticmodel glue.

For the price I wasn't expecting much, but definitely a hassle to get them on, so wouldn't really recommend them.