Goldwing Speedo

 

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.......

 

Runk wrote:

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.

 

wrote:


I had a puddle of solvent rolling around in the bottom of the glass for a while,
it eventually leaked out or evaporated but it never fogged.  Maybe he used a
different kind of solvent that wasn't friendly to plastic?  Looking back, I may
have used an industrial lubricant called 12-34, which is very similar to WD-40
but may have a very different chemical composition.  It was somewhere between
1995 and 2000 when I did that.  I may have forgotten a few details but it did
work with no complications.

Those plastic lenses were known for sun-fogging anyway, solvent or no.  They can
be brought back to usefulness with the application of a little plastic polishing
compound and a lot of patience.  I even know a person who replaced his lenses
with either glass or new plastic and he posted a how-to guide.  I can find it
for you if you're really interested.

My "fix" lasted for two more years until I got a bigger bike and sold that one.
As far as I know, it's still working.

--
Jack

 


Now be carefull of that WD40, it has a varnish componenet that often
will cause the item to seize up again later, and worse.
Sit the bottom end of the speedo in sewing machine type oil to lube
the felt washer in there. If you want to open up the speedo, cut the
crimp ring with a demel disc tool at its bottom, and pull the ring
apart, it will clip back in position and can be glued in place. So I
am told.
And would your 84 Wing be a naked model by any chance?

JohnR - 76 GL 1000 Yellow Bird - in Cold Old England.