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From: Runk on 5 Dec 2009 20:30
I've got a 1984 Wing with a speedometer that starts squealing very load when
I go faster than 40 mph when the air temp drops below 50 degrees . Gets
louder the faster you go and won't stop till the bike comes to a stop. It's
not the cable , so I suppose I've got to repair the speedometer in some way
.. It only has 50k miles . Any one ran into an issue like this. Runk.......

From: Beryl on 5 Dec 2009 23:29
Runk wrote:
> I've got a 1984 Wing with a speedometer that starts squealing very load
> when I go faster than 40 mph when the air temp drops below 50 degrees .
> Gets louder the faster you go and won't stop till the bike comes to a
> stop. It's not the cable , so I suppose I've got to repair the
> speedometer in some way . It only has 50k miles . Any one ran into an
> issue like this. Runk.......

My 1979 XL185 speedo was doing something between a squeal and a buzz.
Light oil on the needle's bearing cured it, but the metal speedo housing
was crimped together, and the formerly smooth seam is now wrinkled and
ugly. It all fits inside an even uglier squeaky plastic box, so that
didn't matter in my case. Since the tripmeter reset knob was also
snapped off, I replaced the whole horrid instrument with something nicer.
From: Jack Hunt on 6 Dec 2009 00:20
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:30:26 -0500, "Runk" <r.runkle(a)mchsi.com> wrote:

>I've got a 1984 Wing with a speedometer that starts squealing very load when
>I go faster than 40 mph when the air temp drops below 50 degrees .

I had a 1983 Magna with the same problem. I fixed it by removing the odometer
reset button and squirting it full of WD-40. Use the flexible tube that comes
with the spray can.

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Jack
From: Rob Kleinschmidt on 6 Dec 2009 01:21
On Dec 5, 8:29 pm, Beryl <fo...(a)road.net> wrote:
> Runk wrote:
> > I've got a 1984 Wing with a speedometer that starts squealing very load
> > when I go faster than 40 mph when the air temp drops below 50 degrees .
> > Gets louder the faster you go and won't stop till the bike comes to a
> > stop. It's not the cable , so I suppose I've got to repair the
> > speedometer in some way . It only has 50k miles . Any one ran into an
> > issue like this.  Runk.......
>
> My 1979 XL185 speedo was doing something between a squeal and a buzz.
> Light oil on the needle's bearing cured it, but the metal speedo housing
> was crimped together, and the formerly smooth seam is now wrinkled and
> ugly. It all fits inside an even uglier squeaky plastic box, so that
> didn't matter in my case. Since the tripmeter reset knob was also
> snapped off, I replaced the whole horrid instrument with something nicer.

I just opened a speedo to fix the tripmeter reset.
Took two tries to get it back together right and I
botched the seam a little too. Got it straightened
out and got out the worst of the scars.

The second time, I glued the nut holding the trip
meter cover to the face of the instrument so I
could line up the reset pushrod with the hole in
the face. I then screwed the rubber cover and
tube it sits on back into the nut after it was
reassembled.

To reseal the crimp, I layed the instrument face
down on a plank and pushed down the crimp with
a heavy metal bolt. A little masking tape on the
surface of the crimp ring might have helped too.
From: The Older Gentleman on 6 Dec 2009 05:21
Jack Hunt <jhunt1x(a)tds.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:30:26 -0500, "Runk" <r.runkle(a)mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> >I've got a 1984 Wing with a speedometer that starts squealing very load when
> >I go faster than 40 mph when the air temp drops below 50 degrees .
>
> I had a 1983 Magna with the same problem. I fixed it by removing the odometer
> reset button and squirting it full of WD-40. Use the flexible tube that comes
> with the spray can.
>
That's the sort of neat semi-bodge solution that always appeals to me
;-)



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