CB77 speedo cluster

[Jpaul123]

Thanks very much for your reply - I did have a look at how it came apart but did not have enough courage to bend the bezle back but will have a go next week. It also needs a new dial face overlay which I have seen on Ebay.
I will try slackening the cable connectors off also to see if that helps.
Will let you know how I get on.
Thanks

[Jpaul123]

I think I have solved my issue with the rev counter - have concluded that the problem was with the cable which was new - there seemed to be a lot of grease that came out of the new cable and after cleaning most of it off a couple of times the rev counter now works fine.
I dismantled the unit and put a new overlay on - the instructions with the overlay suggested putting tape and a jubilee clip round the bezel which helped a lot with bending it open and also bending it closed.

It looks a lot better now - thank for the advice.

[e3steve]

Jumping in here, with an aside comment:

I recall my first CB77, that I owned in '71, having a busted instrument glass. I wanted to 'make it better', so I made my first incursion, at the tender age of 16, into the instrument. Y'know what? It wasn't all that bad.

I made a glass lens from an old picture frame glass, which was really thin. I used my old man's glass-cutter to score a shape line in the glass, then cut the glass to the line with... wait or it... scissors!

Yep. Scissors. I'd remembered reading that this could be done underwater! So I gave it a try, in a bowl of water, and it bloody well worked! My mum was none-too-pleased about her best dressmaking scissors being a) blunted, and b) rendered rusty!! But it worked, and I was chuffed.

The water absorbs the shockwaves, preventing the glass from shattering. The scored line, scribed by the glass-cutter in the glass, acts as a guideline and stops the shock spreading inward, but the oustide portion of the glass just falls away.

[G-Man]

Fantastic! I've got to try that!

"He who dares, wins - Rodders........" :-) :-)


G

Jumping in here, with an aside comment:

I recall my first CB77, that I owned in '71, having a busted instrument glass. I wanted to 'make it better', so I made my first incursion, at the tender age of 16, into the instrument. Y'know what? It wasn't all that bad.

I made a glass lens from an old picture frame glass, which was really thin. I used my old man's glass-cutter to score a shape line in the glass, then cut the glass to the line with... wait or it... scissors!

Yep. Scissors. I'd remembered reading that this could be done underwater! So I gave it a try, in a bowl of water, and it bloody well worked! My mum was none-too-pleased about her best dressmaking scissors being a) blunted, and b) rendered rusty!! But it worked, and I was chuffed.

The water absorbs the shockwaves, preventing the glass from shattering. The scored line, scribed by the glass-cutter in the glass, acts as a guideline and stops the shock spreading inward, but the oustide portion of the glass just falls away.

[e3steve]

Fantastic! I've got to try that!

"He who dares, wins - Rodders........" :-) :-)

Larf! I guess only us Brits will 'get' that comment... (ROTW: Del Boy in "Only Fools And Horses")

Loving that tip about taping around the bezel and nipping up a big Jubilee (hose) worm-drive clip, btw.

I had a badly-waggling pair of needles with mine, and it was in pretty crappy condition, cosmetically. I had the most amazing luck, on US eBay, in finding a NOS instrument, sometime in 2008. The exact type needed, with the opposing needles and incorporated hi-beam indicator!

I was also lucky enough to find a turn signal/throttle assembly, also NOS, from Japan. Paid a small fortune for that, though...