Suzuki speedo

[brent j]

Has anyone removed the reset knob from a 70's Suzuki speedo?

I'm trying to get mine apart to tidy it up but the knob has to come off before anything else

I can't find/feel any screws or such so I'm assuming it will just pull off?

Thanks

Brent

[Oldfart]

I'm pretty sure they are glued on from factory Brent

[pokey]

nup/ LH thread and its tight .


http://suzukits.informe.com/wiki/view/Broken_odometer_stem_removal

[brent j]

Just got a message from an English guy via facebook. They have a Phillips head screw on the end of the shaft, inside the knob.

It took a while to to dig out all the gunk and find the screw head but it did come undone and it is a right hand thread.

Zedder shows the PE250B speedo to be one year, one model only

[Mick D]

Yeap. My memory has the same. The shaft that the knob goes on to has I think... from an old memory? Two flats on a slight angle maybe three... ?  A lot of btain cells ago.
I think. A long time ago. Filed away the glued bottom edge thing underneath (suzuki) .  Undid two little Phillips that held mechanism  to  bottom pannel to release that bottom from speedo.  Then able access and to push trip knob off trip knob spindle. Unorthodox, maybe? But works. need a breath now

[Mick D]

And a sleep.

[mick25]

Hey uncle brent ,
You might be able to turn the clock back on the speedo for a fresh start to its new life 

[brent j]

Hey uncle brent ,
You might be able to turn the clock back on the speedo for a fresh start to its new life 

Just need to do the same for me Mick!!!!!!!!!!!

[LWC82PE]

Yep a tiny phillips/JIS screw holds the knob on. To reset the odo back to 0 you need to  disassemble the whole unit. its been  ages since i have done one but from memory the whole set of drums on the shaft needs removing off the metal frame, there was a metal tab bent over holding one end of the odo shaft in i reckon  and then each drum needs to be rotated by hand to zero, but they are all locked together in a sequence and i had to un engage them before i could rotate them to zero.

I am curious, is your speedo face black or brown? i have been seeiing a few 250 B's with black faces lately so i wonder if they are early models where they used up left over speedos with black faces from the 76 TS250 & 400 first or at least the black faces before going to brown?

Can you reset the trip meter forwards and backwards? I don't think i can do that on the TS speedo and that was a PE only feature for enduro use.

[brent j]

The face is brown, Thanks Leith. I thought at first it must be discoloured. The face is clean apart from some dust and dust on the number wheels. I cleaned the lens with toothpaste and it came up nicely
I won't change the speedo reading, I'm the second owner so I'll fit a cable and let the kms build up.
The odo will reset in either direction but it takes a while to wind them over

[LWC82PE]

The parts book i have from 76 lists 4 speedos for the PE250b

2 in miles and 2 in KM so i wonder if one of those is black and one brown or if the different numbers differentiate Nippon Seiki and Nippon Denso makes?. The combined mile/km face speedos only came on the 78 and newer PE's.

The TS speedos have a quicker reset trip mechanism