I'll take pictures when I get home so it will be easier to recognize.

Anyway, I bought a tach cable from eBay, and when it arrived there were two cables in the box. I installed the tach cable and my tach works great now (awesome). But I have no idea what the other cable is that came with it. I'll try to describe it: one end has the normal screw end with threads and protruding cable that registers spin speed, and the other end has a long spring wrapping the end and the tip doesn't have any threads but does have a rubber o-ring.

At first I thought it was a speedo cable, but I looked at the one on my bike and it didn't seem to have the same ends, or the long spring wrapping it.

Any answers?   

Choke cable? That's the only GS cable I can think of that has a spring around it.... The speedo doesn't, the tach doesn't, the clutch doesn't, the throttle spring is on the carb not the cable... Process of elimination says, it must be a choke cable if it is from a GS...

Choke cable was my thought also.

The choke cable also has a metal sleeve on the non spring end that bends the cable at an angle. If your cable has this, it is a dead giveaway. If not, I have no idea...

Here are some pictures:

That is a speedometer or tachometer cable.  The spring on the end doesn't match up with any of the cables that i own.  (Might be from a different bike?)  As long as the ends match up, and the length is good, i don't see why it wouldn't/couldn't work...


Bob

Maybe the seller was not sure which cable was the right one and sent you both?? Shoot him a quick note and ask.

Quote from: Grommett2k on March 31, 2009, 10:21:27 AM
Maybe the seller was not sure which cable was the right one and sent you both?? Shoot him a quick note and ask.

Not going to worry about. He did send me the right one for my bike and it works great. Anyone want whatever this is? Just pay actual shipping and it's yours.

Sure as hell looks like a tach cable to me.  Speedo cables are longer, and the rubber O-ring is a dead giveaway.  It goes on the engine, and it spins.  It may be for one of the older GS's or some other bike, but it's definitely a tach cable.

Nah.....speedo cable. The end with the ferrule screws on the back of the clock, the other end plugs into the worm gear on the wheel and is retained with a screw that sits in the groove between the end of the cable and the oring.........Its not off a GS5, they dont have the spring but the set up is the same.