1985 Xr600 Project

[GooseMan]

Polished the exhaust today, came up all right I think, just ignore the chiped paint, i'll fix that soon:fumeur7:

 

[Blender]

nice job on the polish up, what did u use to polish it up? might do it to my pitbikes exhaust when i need to

 

[my67xr]

i'm guessing Russ has used a wire wheel on a bench grinder, to start with ?
then maybe some Autosol, Chrome polish ?


most of the XR range used stainless steel headers pipes, they can be polished up to a mirror finish.
once you start riding them, they will start to tarnish from the heat though.
if you were to repolish it every month it would stay nice and shiny, but who does that ?

the header pipe i polished for my mates' '01 XR400, still looks good after 600km's use
i polished it on my Buff, with a Calico wheel, and Polish.

 

[GooseMan]

your good craig, thats exactly what I did. rode it for 10 minutes today and all the start of the pipe is blue now. And these ones are stainless by the way.

 

[GooseMan]

Does any one know where I can get a wire soldered back on to the circuit board of my speedo? I tried but found it too hard

 

[my67xr]

i can solder it for you

 

[Blender]

your good craig, thats exactly what I did. rode it for 10 minutes today and all the start of the pipe is blue now. And these ones are stainless by the way.

hey just wondering, what was the power like? i imagine quite torquey being a 600
p.s. thanks for the info Craig/GooseMan, appreciated will do that to my new bike exhaust when it starts getting a little dull.......when it gets here!

 

[GooseMan]

all good tried again and managed to solder it this time, came out good but the screen will not light up still? it takes batteries which I have new ones of, and also plugs into the wiring loom, do you think I'll need to connect it up to the bike maybe to get it too work?

Blender, the power is pretty crazy, kicks the back end out with ease in all gears, will be looking at making it a touch quieter though, don't think it is legal atm. backfires when I back off real quick

Money permiting I'll make this thing look new again.

 

[my67xr]

what speedo are you using, an original one ?

 

[GooseMan]

yeah, the old digital one, like this exept I don't have the bracket.

 

[my67xr]

oh ok, i have never seen one before.

so were you fixing a bad globe circuit, or adding one or ?

 

[GooseMan]

The guy I brought it off said it started to fade out so he had pulled it apart, when I got it the negative wire from the batteries was broken so I soldered a new one on. Might have to plug it in tomorrow and see what happens. apparently not many came with this speedo

 

[GooseMan]

Im confused again:arcadefreak:

So there is no where for a speedo cable to go in to the speedometer, because it is digital. So how does it work out the speed? It has two wires coming out if it which I can't find any wires on the bike to go to it. The wiring diagram isn't helpful at all. But just to confuse me more it has a speed pick up at the wheel not in use? So maybe this it calculates it from the engine rpm or something???:confused-smiley-014???

 

[my67xr]

think you just need the digital version
http://www.ebay.com/itm/85-00-HONDA...Parts_Accessories&hash=item58a2cc73b2&vxp=mtr

 

[my67xr]

so the speedo cable goes from the wheel, up and then screws into this sensor, which converts it to digital signal
http://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/857115-honda-xr-oem-digital-speedometer/

 

[GooseMan]

That makes so much sense now. The guy I brought it off might have that maybe

 

[GooseMan]

My neighbour had a look at the speedo and doesn't seem to think he can fix it and he does this stuff for a living (sorta). So I was looking at some after market speedo's like the trail tech one's, anybody had any experience with these? Do they require a magnet on the wheel to work?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trail-Te..._Parts_Accessories&hash=item3cd9f7e870&_uhb=1
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Trail-Te...K_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item20d0cd5d6b&_uhb=1

 

[GooseMan]

wow, just found out it is $951 for a new original one!!

 

[my67xr]

here is the TrailTech set up guide-
http://gallery.trailtech.net/media/.../endurance/endurance_instructions_scanned.pdf

so what do you need for your original Honda speedo, a cable, a sender ?

 

[my67xr]

you could always fit something like this, then just run a universal cable to hook it up
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LED-Ligh..._Parts_Accessories&hash=item3f28b58f75&_uhb=1

or a used one off another Honda like this XR250 speedo,
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dash-Spe..._Parts_Accessories&hash=item4d1700d173&_uhb=1

i'm sure 2 wheel recyclers would have something you could buy for about $70 and up ?


does the bike need an inspection so you can rego it ?
i've heard they don't like seeing new(00000km) speedos fitted