Well,
It has been a busy and productive day!
3 hours + to pull out the carbs, change main jets to 135, put back the carbs, install an aftermarket tach, check wiring, put back the long TORs and test!
So, I got this cheap tach (about 40$us) and since the Triumph tach here is around 250$.. I figured I had not much to lose! It looked a lot like the Drag Specialties tach, just this one goes to 12,000RPM.
Took off the dashboard.
Popped off the Triumph logo by carefully pushing on the little tabs under it.
Here is the tach I got, It comes with a Y to handlebars mount.
I took the Y thing off.. and the screw on the right side was just a tad off the hole on the retaining clip for the tach mount. So, I drilled another hole and voila, it is holding in place nicely.
For the wiring, it comes with 4 wires, just like the Drag Spec. and a little diagram showing the correspondent connection to be made. I followed the instructions on this site, connecting the hot for ignition and light together to the green/red wire from Triumph's own tach connector. The red to coil wire and I also used the ground from the clock connector to the black wire. The package came with these insta-tap. First time I ever used these... worked ok.
Here's installed on the dash, notice the blue lighting... shouldn't be too intrusive for night riding, I believe
And now, here is my view when I look down... the tach, the clock and the speedo. All in line... order please!
This is the item I bought. I doubt you will find it anywhere else but Asia. It is made in Taiwan for a Japanese company. Just in case you ever see this and you are thinking "this thing is way too cheap! can't work as advertise!" Well, I will keep you posted as time goes by to see if this tach continue "ticking" !
PS. Even if it says it is a "Non Normal" tach, it just works like a "Normal" tach... I guess! The joys of direct Chinese to English translations!
