Friday, Sep 19 2014 [38 miles]
Today I’m removing the side pannels and saddle to get familiar with the bike. While the pannels are off I’ll add a pigtail for heated gear and see if the Tiny-tach that’s been sitting in my tool box for years works with this bike.
Comes with spare fuse
Heated gear pigtail connected to battery
How about that. The bike came with a spare fuse. How nice of Suzuki. I wired the heated gear pigtail directly to the battery, making a few snips in the proctive cover over the hot lead to route the wire. This was probably a good thing as the battery terminal connections were very loose, unlike every other fastener I touched today.
tach will go here
something like this
Ready to mount
The Tiny-tach works well. I find that surprising as it is very old and I expect the battery to fail. But until it does I’ll use it. I cut a strip of scrap aluminum and marked it up for hole locations. A little time with saw and file got it ready to mount.
Rivets didn’t fit
Friction tape
cable tied to horn bracket
The head of my rivet tool is too close to fit the Tiny-tach mounting flange. Plus, I fubared the holes in the mounting plate for the tach— I think the drill walked a bit and I didn’t notice.
The holes were close enough for cable ties, so that’s how I mounted the tach to the mounting bracket. Excess wire was bundled up and wrapped in friction tape then cable tied to the horn bracket. Looks ok; no loose wires to snag.
Tach in operation
It works.
My clutch doesn’t have any free play so I checked the adjustments. I can’t loosen the cable any more than it is. I might have to move the lever on the engine case over one spline to get some slack.