Weird speedo thing.

"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
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> Mike/Speeed wrote:
>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>
>>> Yesterday I rode with some friends to a party on the Rogue River. I had
>>> a really good time and because there were some patch holders in
>>> attendance, it became the accepted protocol that when you left, you
>>> poured the coal to it.
>>>
>>> My departure wasn't any different than anybody else's: I ran through the
>>> gears in an impressive (I'm sure) display of my TC's power. However, as
>>> I continued on my way, I noticed that the speedometer reading was now
>>> off, way off. I pulled over to the side of the road and shut the bike
>>> down, then started it back up. Now the speedo reading was correct.
>>> However later, as I accelerated onto I-5 from the onramp, the speedo
>>> reading went off the mark again. When I came to a stop the next time and
>>> then took off again, the speedo reading was correct again.
>>>
>>> I don't know if this is going to be a continual problem at this point,
>>> but I hope it won't be. I know that the speedo sensor is a light
>>> detector that's aimed at my front pulley. Maybe it got some dirt on it
>>> or something when I washed the bike yesterday, I don't know.
>>>
>>> Anybody (assuming anybody's reading this) else have this kind of
>>> problem?
>>
>> Speed sensor going, going, soon to be gone.
>
> Nah. It quit doing it. Working fine now.
>

My '02 TCD has a nervous speedo after every time I washed it with water. Got
the bike out, blew some air through it on the highway, and set it for a
while after the ride & the engine heat will complete the drying process.
I have gone through the process of putting dialetric grease on all wiring
connections & now the electrical bugs are a thing of the past.

Ride safe

Mike/Speeed wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>> Mike/Speeed wrote:
>>> John Corliss wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yesterday I rode with some friends to a party on the Rogue River. I had
>>>> a really good time and because there were some patch holders in
>>>> attendance, it became the accepted protocol that when you left, you
>>>> poured the coal to it.
>>>>
>>>> My departure wasn't any different than anybody else's: I ran through the
>>>> gears in an impressive (I'm sure) display of my TC's power. However, as
>>>> I continued on my way, I noticed that the speedometer reading was now
>>>> off, way off. I pulled over to the side of the road and shut the bike
>>>> down, then started it back up. Now the speedo reading was correct.
>>>> However later, as I accelerated onto I-5 from the onramp, the speedo
>>>> reading went off the mark again. When I came to a stop the next time and
>>>> then took off again, the speedo reading was correct again.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if this is going to be a continual problem at this point,
>>>> but I hope it won't be. I know that the speedo sensor is a light
>>>> detector that's aimed at my front pulley. Maybe it got some dirt on it
>>>> or something when I washed the bike yesterday, I don't know.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody (assuming anybody's reading this) else have this kind of
>>>> problem?
>>>
>>> Speed sensor going, going, soon to be gone.
>>
>> Nah. It quit doing it. Working fine now.
>
> My '02 TCD has a nervous speedo after every time I washed it with water. Got
> the bike out, blew some air through it on the highway, and set it for a
> while after the ride & the engine heat will complete the drying process.
> I have gone through the process of putting dialetric grease on all wiring
> connections & now the electrical bugs are a thing of the past.
>
> Ride safe

Excellent advice, Mike and thanks. In fact, I had earlier (the day the
speedo thing happened) washed the hell out of the bike. I felt bad about
having a bike that has road rash on it (at this point, mainly the left
saddlebag lid) from the previous owner's wreck. I wanted the bike to be
shiny enough at the party to draw attention away from the damage and my
ploy worked. However as you noticed, the water caused that speedo sensor
problem.

Kind of on a related note to using dielectric grease, earlier in the
year my LED readout mode selector button quit working. You could press
it hard and repeatedly until you were blue in the face, and you'd only
get the main odometer reading. Then I found out that if you spray a
little WD40 in it (put the tube right next to the button and give just a
little shot), in a couple of days the thing starts working again like
new. At this point, it hasn't given me any problems again either (knock
on wood.)

Another thing I need to get off of my ass and do, is to lube all the
cables better. My friend Les has already had the clutch cable snap on
his '03 TC (in this group, TC refers to Touring Cruiser.) That, and I
need to get a bottle of that fairly exotic DOT-4 so that I have it on
hand. Why Victory didn't go with DOT-5 is beyond me.

--
John Corliss BS206

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