Tachometer Cable Install

[Mason Spencer]

Hi folks,

I got a tach cable to accompany my analog gauges, the guy before me had electronic ones and they were definitely not accurate. Plus I like the look of the originals anyways, but I digress.

I noticed when I try to install it into the top end, it doesn't go deep enough (1st pic). You should be able to see clear through so the retaining screw can go back in. When I take the inner cable out and test it, the housing seats just fine. The cable has this collar (2nd pic) that I assume ensures the inner cable doesn't move back and forth when installed. However, I think they assembled it too close to the end, and it bottoms out too soon. Hence causing the issue in picture 1.

My question is, can I remove this little collar and be good? I don't know if it is there to also keep the wire from sliding down into the bevel gears that measure the speed.

 

[JPaganel]

Is it the same distance from the end on the other end, the one going into the tach?

 

[Mason Spencer]

The tach end doesn't have the same collar, however if I try and pull the inner cable out and flip it around, too much sticks out where you can't screw the cable into the tach.

 

[MathiasLHP]

Hello.
Did you find a solution for this problem? Wrong cable or other? I have the same issue. Only more excessive. The square hole on the engine side is not very deep, and therefore wont fit with the collar at this end. If I flip the inner cable, then it can go in on the engine side, but is too long to fit in tachometer. Did you cut it to length?
Also the bike came without a cable, so nothing to compare against..

 

[kebabs]

the little collar your talking about. I had the same problem. had ordered the wrong cable .I got a file and filed around the circumference of the collar .

 

[kebabs]

if you look through the hole in your second pic you can see how much needs to come off

 

[shosh86]

I am having this exact problem. Does anyone have a solution?

 

[kebabs]

I am having this exact problem. Does anyone have a solution?

cut a few mm off the inner cable .

 

[shosh86]

Thanks. Can you tell me how far the square cable should slide into the square receiver in the tach gear assembly? Mine currently slides in only about 5 mm, such that probably 2 inches or so would need to be cut off the cable. I am wondering if I have an issue with the square receiver. I'm trying to force it in with some needle nose pliers, but it just wont slide in more than about a half cm.

 

[kebabs]

Thanks. Can you tell me how far the square cable should slide into the square receiver in the tach gear assembly? Mine currently slides in only about 5 mm, such that probably 2 inches or so would need to be cut off the cable. I am wondering if I have an issue with the square receiver. I'm trying to force it in with some needle nose pliers, but it just wont slide in more than about a half cm.

if I remember 5mm is about right.i had to machine the outer cable to make it fit .the cable I got must have been for another model.

 

[kebabs]

if I remember 5mm is about right.i had to machine the outer cable to make it fit .the cable I got must have been for another model.

take the inner cable out .try putting it into the housing and see if it goes in any further

 

[shosh86]

That's good to know on ~ 5 mm. Maybe something else is wrong then. To your suggestion above, I think I recall from working on it last night that the inner cable slides in the housing the same amount regardless of whether its in the outer cable.

By the way, this is the cable I bought and tried. It's now worthless given the various ways I tried to modify it. If it's the right one, I'll have to get another.

https://nicheindustries.com/product...y6aFtzgwD-Bv5ysOwTy7Wf52xpqiUz0gaAnV2EALw_wcB

 

[kebabs]

that is similar to the one I got .I machined the end that goes into the engine housing possibly got lucky with with my engineering I doubt you have been given the wrong one.try yambits.co.uk

 

[shosh86]

Interesting, the inner cable on Yambits looks significantly shorter than the inner cable in the NICHE one I bought.

https://yambits.co.uk/xs400-tacho-revcounter-cable-p-13271.html

https://nicheindustries.com/product...FoUrn3OZoy29d8UeCew8HmAbVjfS5OY9BXKrf0n7IELFx

 

[kebabs]

Interesting, the inner cable on Yambits looks significantly shorter than the inner cable in the NICHE one I bought.

View attachment 38949

https://yambits.co.uk/xs400-tacho-revcounter-cable-p-13271.html

View attachment 38951

https://nicheindustries.com/product...FoUrn3OZoy29d8UeCew8HmAbVjfS5OY9BXKrf0n7IELFx

I'd go for it then.there usually spot on

 

[shosh86]

Update -- For anyone reading this, the tach cable from Yambits fit perfectly.

 

[kebabs]

Update -- For anyone reading this, the tach cable from Yambits fit perfectly.

excellent told u it would