Max
Thanks for that Tip. My seat release was hit and miss. I tried my spare key and works like a champ. Didnt think the key would be the factor.

You're so smart!

You're so smart!

Just a 'figure things out' motorhead ... the thing is, if you are willing to push yourself beyond your comfort zone, figuring out why something doesn't work is applicable to almost every aspect of life.

If your bike breaks you get a manual and figure .. if you get sick, you pick up a pathophysiology book and trace the causes, it works like that all the way up through economics and into string theory and quantum physics, you just start figuring, isolating and comparing what is known and what isn't known and crossing with what works and what doesn't work and eliminate and trial and error and next thing you know it's all right there and making sense.

John Nash is simply a motorhead with a mathematics/economics degree and a piece of a Nobel.


It's all about where you want to go with what ya got.




Max

They make electrical contact cleaner. Wonder if that would work.

I sprayed the hell outta my board and wires with electronic component/electrical contact cleaner time before this and it didn't work, but then again I didn't want to get to involved with something that volatile and wash away the printing on the gauge plate ...

Let me know if you try it and it works without fading the ink.

I'm starting to think that wet road grime can steam off the engine and seep up from under the tunnel of the gas tank and inside the not quite so tightly sealed dash/gauge assembly and coat the board with a film that eventually interrupts a circuit or so.

This is still new to me, I never had a solid state gauge on a bike before, hell I just started using a cable speedo on my old rigid a few years ago because I got lazy about swishing and stickin my eyeball in a gas tank and wanted a tripometer to keep track of fuel without poppin the cap .. LOL



Max

my 1999 just stopped working ,do you take the face plate off because the dial hand do not seem to want to come loose should i just pull til I break ..lol..???

I just dissasembled the speedo until I could get to the back of the circuit board, I didn't take the electronics apart or remove the faceplate from the circuit board.



Max