Harley-Davidson's One thousand nine hundred seventy nine XL -- or Sportster -- uses a cable coerce operation for the speedometer. A mechanical impel unit, mounted on the fly side of the front circle axle, spins the speedometer cable within a cable sleeve. The sleeve connects to the back of the magnetic-type speedometer belief, where the front turn rotation rush is gauged by the position of the darner on the speedometer face. Over date, the sleeve can degrade and doer the speedometer cable within to wear and fracture. You can convert the cable without replacing the sleeve, on the other hand it is recommended to alter both the sleeve and the cable as a unit.
Instructions
1. Grasp the speedometer cable sleeve ferrule located on the back of the speedometer attitude. Unscrew the ferrule from the speedometer head and pull the cable meeting off the speedometer tendency.
2. Slip the top of the speedometer cable meeting finished the triple-clamps to un-thread it from its routing and straighten the cable sleeve.
3. Grasp the cable sleeve and unscrew it from the handle. Pull the cable assembly off the coerce unit. Route the cable behind the right side of the lower triple-clamp, up along the right side of the headlight assembly, and up to the back of the speedometer head.8. Insert the cable into the back of the speedometer head and hand-tighten the cable sleeve ferrule.
4. Pull the advanced cable outside of the new cable sleeve.
5. Grasp the cable sleeve and screw it into the drive unit until the cable sleeve bottoms out in the drive unit.
6. Grease the new cable with fresh graphite grease and insert it into the cable sleeve. Rotate the cable within the sleeve until you feel it engage in the drive unit.
7. Peep the square gap in the propel unit. Accomplish firm none of the cable has broken off and remains inside the propel unit. Withdraw any broken apportionment of the cable from the operate unit, whether relevant, using a span of tweezers.
