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Tach wiring on early Monsters?

Started by carbmon, November 06, 2012, 07:07:02 AM

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carbmon

Does anyone know if, by chance, the harness on any of the early speedo-only carby models already has the wiring to install the dual-gauge cluster from the later carby models that came OEM with the electronic tach?

TIA
2001 M750 Monster - for quick therapy
2004 ZG/GTR1000 Concours - for sale
2012 DL650 Wee Strom - my first fuel injected / ABS bike!
1981 R100RS - long hauler emeritus (retired)
++ with thanks to Daniel Bernoulli, (almost) all my bikes have carbs ++

dufukincati

I bought a DP tach cluster off of eBay a while back for.my 1997 M900. It came with the bucket, faceplate, tach, and tach patch over cable. The only thing I reused was the speedometer assembly.

carbmon

#2
Thanks for the idea, I found an online instruction for the install of the DP tach and it seems the lead back to the coil had to be added (part of the patch over cable?) so I guess the older bike was NOT wired for the tach.


Thanks very much for your information!
2001 M750 Monster - for quick therapy
2004 ZG/GTR1000 Concours - for sale
2012 DL650 Wee Strom - my first fuel injected / ABS bike!
1981 R100RS - long hauler emeritus (retired)
++ with thanks to Daniel Bernoulli, (almost) all my bikes have carbs ++

seanster

no it doesn't have the tach wire pre-wired...

You have to tap into the coil (negative) to get the tach reading.  I have done this when I switched out to the Danmoto gauge on mine M750.

But to be honest...I won't do it in the first place if I knew ahead of time that when they didn't put a tach on the model, which meant you don't really need the tach to begin with...

This mod was just me trying to know more and look...  ;D
2001 Supersport 900 Yellow!!! (she's just so much fun)
2000 Monster 750 Carb Dark!!! (Sold and still full of regrets)

COP TZR

Quote from: carbmon on November 06, 2012, 10:00:59 AM
Thanks for the idea, I found an online instruction for the install of the DP tach and it seems the lead back to the coil had to be added (part of the patch over cable?) so I guess the older bike was NOT wired for the tach.


Thanks very much for your information!

link to the online instruction please?

carbmon

2001 M750 Monster - for quick therapy
2004 ZG/GTR1000 Concours - for sale
2012 DL650 Wee Strom - my first fuel injected / ABS bike!
1981 R100RS - long hauler emeritus (retired)
++ with thanks to Daniel Bernoulli, (almost) all my bikes have carbs ++


krista

And FYI to anyone buying the DP gauges: they all seem to fail pretty quickly. I had one on my Pongo build and it only lasted a few months. :(
Krista Kelley ... autist formerly known as chris
official nerd for ca-cycleworks.com

carbmon

#8
Quote from: chris on November 07, 2012, 10:26:16 AM
And FYI to anyone buying the DP gauges: ......... :(

Not me !

My Q had to do with 'marketing' my '01 OEM dual-gauge cluster take-off which was working fine when removed at 98XX miles  ;)
2001 M750 Monster - for quick therapy
2004 ZG/GTR1000 Concours - for sale
2012 DL650 Wee Strom - my first fuel injected / ABS bike!
1981 R100RS - long hauler emeritus (retired)
++ with thanks to Daniel Bernoulli, (almost) all my bikes have carbs ++