I, too, am starting a café bike based on my 1981 Yamaha SR250. I've seen some great work here, most recently SteveG's "A Tracker named Mexico."
I have a problem right off the bat that I'm sure many people who've built up an SR250 have come up against: as delivered in the late '70s - early '80s (in the US, anyway), the SR250 had a speedo with idiot lights, but no tach. I have the mechanical drive for the speedo, but I can't even find where a tachometer take-off drive might be on the engine.
I have a nice set of Yamaha (Nippon Denso) instruments that seem pretty contemporary to my SR250, which includes a mechanical tach, mechanical speedo, and idiot lights, but no idea where -- or IF -- I can run a mechanical tach drive cable from somewhere on the engine to the back of the tach.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Bart
I have a problem right off the bat that I'm sure many people who've built up an SR250 have come up against: as delivered in the late '70s - early '80s (in the US, anyway), the SR250 had a speedo with idiot lights, but no tach. I have the mechanical drive for the speedo, but I can't even find where a tachometer take-off drive might be on the engine.
I have a nice set of Yamaha (Nippon Denso) instruments that seem pretty contemporary to my SR250, which includes a mechanical tach, mechanical speedo, and idiot lights, but no idea where -- or IF -- I can run a mechanical tach drive cable from somewhere on the engine to the back of the tach.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Bart