So Sunday I spent most of my day working on the bike again. Wanted to install all of the pieces I’d missed installing when I put the bike back together last time on Friday after my luckless search for the wayward nut.  Tore it back apart and put it all back together, this time with all the pieces in place! Yaaay! Took it out for a test drive and got a few miles down the road before I realized that the speedometer wasn’t registering any speed and that the “F1″ light had come on. Turned around and headed back home and into the garage where I proceeded to tear it back down again. Boohoo! For the life of me I can’t find any wires that I’d missed plugging back in and I spent all of the rest of the day looking. Put it all back together again and still no speedo. My research is now leading me to the speed sensor connection located on the right side under the cover between the lower vent and the glove box. It’s possible that, somehow, I pulled the connection loose or loosened a wire in the connection so tonight I’ll get back into that side and have another look. It’s either that or, coincidentally, my speed sensor has gone bad.

Curses! Ah, well. Just another tiny and minor setback on the road to “doing it myself”! I am getting very good at removing the instrument panel and top shelter, though. Wonder if there’s a competition for that skill somewhere…

 

Ride safe,

Zippo and Jax