Winding the odometer back?

[loply]

Hi folks,

Following on from my thread about crashing the SZR660, Ive just been out picking up the new parts for the bike.

Everything is in order however the new clocks Ive bought read 19,000 miles My broken clocks only read 11,000.

Does anybody know how to wind the miles back? Im going to pop my old ones open and see if I can figure it out but any guidance would be appreciated.

Its a Yamaha SZR660, the odometer is in the speedo, front wheel driven.
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[Major_Grooves]

I don't think you can wind them back. Maybe you could fit a powerdrill to it and wind it forward past 0, then back to 11,000.
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[paulyzf600]

I had the same problem in my car and the odometre actually came out seperate and I swapped them over not sure what it's like on bikes.
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[pipnet11]

You cant wind them back as they work on a ratchet system, but you can wind them past 0 and back to 11,000 miles easily, just takes a while even with a powerdrill.
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[tatters]

yes you can wind them back, take the face plate off and with a small screw driver move the dials up and down.


works but is ilegal
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[Major_Grooves]

[mattsmith95]

altering clocks is a massive no no, best inform the DVLA of the clock change, would probably save loads of problems.

[Marc_Buck]

Whos gonna ever know? mate of mine took his clocks back from 13000kms to 2000kms, sold it for a lot more, no-one ever knew.
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[Jammy-G]

[instigator]

[Marc_Buck]

Instigator, i agree with you, i didnt say it was right.

Was just stating that its easy to get away with.

I do not reccommend it.
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[Ric]

[loply]

When I put my battery powered drill onto the speedo it read 40mph.

Thats a 2,000rpm drill so by my calculations with a dremel at 38,000rpm (450mph) to cover 99,999 miles will take 8 days of continuous uninterrupted drilling to reach this amount. The dremel would break down and burn up before then!

Is this really practical? :S

I had a fiddle with my old clocks and it is indeed possible to wind the numbers back with a knife blade but getting the face off the clock is not possible without breaking it as far as I can see.

Perhaps someone will inform me that my calculations r.e. the dremel are incorrect? Hope so.
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[loply]

P.S. incase anybody knows a solution, the faceplate (glass) of the clocks is held in place by a black plastic ring which is glued onto the clocks.

My old clocks this was smashed off in the crash, as far as I can see it would not be possible to remove it without breaking it on my new clocks.

Unless someone knows a way?
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[Marc_Buck]

Scooter ones can be wound back using a power drill, maybe yours cannot.

I don't some how see its possible to do it, 8 hours flat, thats 210 hours or something, 210 hours at 1 hour a day is like 8 months at an hour a day, and besides would a drill be able to do it for an hour without blowing? i don't think you could do it.
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[instigator]

Probably easier to just buy a cheap bike speedo unit(or gps), rig that up, take off the throttle cable and work with that until you've covered a further 8000 miles!!

But yes, from your calculations, it would take 8-9 days.

[pipnet11]

[binge]

On my old speedfight, it has shitty clocks on it which didnt work on a ratchet system. I attached a drill to the speedo drive and brought it back 5k Miles.

Like everybody says, Check to see if you can swap them over. If not, Take them apart and knock the numbers round.

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[natv4]

You should be able to buy the odometer component fairly cheaply.

I think the people who clock their vehicles before selling them are cnuts. Its funny how we are all bikers, on 2 wheels, friendly and so on....until money comes into it. Then we'll happily screw our granny for a fiver. (hopefully this does not apply to any of you)
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[tintin]

Why don't you just take a picture of the old clocks and new clocks together, then get a reputable bike dealer to write you a letter saying that the original milage is genuine. When you come to sell the bike you can produce the paperwork.

Of course this then shows that you crashed your bike which would probably but the buyer off more!

Or keep looking for SH clocks with a similar milage and then swap them again and sell the 19,000 mile ones.
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[LustyLew]

Or you could remove the speedo cable for long journeys. I know what speed I'm doing when in top gear just by the revs.
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[Zero-G]

How about using the 19k clocks for the moment, keeping a note of the millage you are doing, and replace them with a set of clocks with the correct millage on when you see some which are the same as the millage you bike has actually done?
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