The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: steven m on October 27, 2009, 09:57:41 PM

Title: Tachless in Culver City
Post by: steven m on October 27, 2009, 09:57:41 PM

Proud owner of a nice, stock, 83 R65.  Cleaning up nicely.  Original blue paint with the silver pin stripping.  Tach not working.  Cleaned the connector plug, no change.  Headlight, turn signals, neutral light, generator light, all functioning.  Any suggestions as to where to start?  Is this common?  Grounding issue, tach dead, etc?  I did notice a connecter attached to green with brown stripes wires just sitting out between the gauges, but don't see an obvious place to plug it in.

Bike runs fine, idles smoothly.  Do not want to fry the ignition module.  

Steve

Title: Re: Tachless in Culver City
Post by: awaffa2003 on October 27, 2009, 10:09:48 PM

mine doesnt work either. same year. i didnt think it was worth fixing, i just listen to her :)

Title: Re: Tachless in Culver City
Post by: Bob_Roller on October 27, 2009, 10:32:24 PM

You can start at the ignition coil, there should be two black wires on one terminal, one is for the coil, the other is for the tachometer .

Title: Re: Tachless in Culver City
Post by: montmil on October 28, 2009, 05:38:00 AM

I have a working R65 tach that will fit your bike, if you cannot get the current one "tach-in".  PM me if interested in buying.   Monte

Title: Re: Tachless in Culver City
Post by: steven m on October 28, 2009, 10:11:58 PM

If I can't get it working I'll let you know about your tach.

Thanks

Steve