Speedo problem on '04 RX-1

[Cummins6.7pwr]

About 20 miles after riding in some 3 foot powder, the speedo on my RX-1 started acting up. We were riding about 60 mph and my digital reading was going all over the place between 6 and 30 mph. When I stopped it would read 0 but then started moving and it would read all over between 6 and 30 again. Did something freeze up or do I have a gear or sensor problem?

 

[JROCK]

Check the connector in the back of the speedo. They wiggle them self loose sometimes and your clutch side driveshaft bearing

 

[Honk]

Bearing, Don't drive again, till changed, or YOU will be broke down

 

[Len Todd]

It does sound like the PTO side Drive Shaft Bearing going bad. You need to get it inspected quickly as you can tear up the sensor and then you are in for a $100 trip versus the $15 for just the Bearing.

 

[Cummins6.7pwr]

It was the bearing for sure. It's too bad it took the sensor out with it. Anybody have a speedo sensor laying around? Thanks for your help fellas!

 

[WarriorBeads]

Good luck, these are hard to come by.....That reminds me... Time to check and grease my own drive bearing....

 

[HRD2PLZ]

Thats sucks, just had the same thing happen a month ago. New speedo sensor was like $80. Bearing was like $30 or 35. I was told to change both sides (bearings) though, if the shaft got jacked a lil sideways you may have damaged the other one, was just piece of mind for me. And since I was in there anyway...

Just curious, how many miles on sled, mine had 4750 when the bearing went.

 

[Cummins6.7pwr]

My sled had 5500 on it when it went. I would guess that is pretty good considering the abuse that it gets. A lot of those miles are ditch bangin' here in Iowa. There is about 1300 miles in the U.P. and about 700 out west in Wyoming.

 

[webzwarrior]

same thing happened to my warrior. i was told it was the speedo sensor, so i replaced that, and that did nothing. my speedo just stays on zero the whole time. should i get new driveshaft bearings to fix the problem? or could there be something else? i cleaned the connection on the back of the guage cluster so i dont think it is that since everything else works.

 

[Cummins6.7pwr]

You should only need new bearings if the old ones are bad. Pull off the clutch side plastic and make sure the bearing is fine. If the bearing, gear and sensor are all lined up right, then you must have a different problem.

 

[rbailey3711]

There is another thread that said there is a speedo/odometer fuse (10A) in a fuse box on the right side of the sled.

My bearing went completely out last weekend on a round trip form DA UP to Eagle River (262.5 miles). It took out the sensor and the magnet was warn, that's the gear on the end of the shaft under the driven clutch. I had 6148 miles on odometer when it went out somewhere around Saynor and Star Lake.

Orderd parts online from boats.net:

Yamaha JOINT = $10.18 (magnet) 8EK-47715-00-00

Yamaha BEARING (8CJ) = $25.64 93306-20589-00

Yamaha SENSOR, SPEED = $51.60 8FP-83755-01-00

PLUS Shipping.

Haven't pulled what is left of the bearing inner race, yet; it is supposed to unscrew with the two allen screws and slide off, that gets done next weekend.

Al's Snowmobile Salvage had the sensor, used, for $40.

 

[Len Todd]

The set screws holding the Driveshaft PTO side Bearing on the Drive shaft are torx bit (versus Allen).

 

[Len Todd]

There is another thread that said there is a speedo/odometer fuse (10A) in a fuse box on the right side of the sled.

There is no fuse in the Speedometer Sensor Circuit on a RX-1. The Sensor circuit goes direct to the gage. If the Sensor is working and the connections at the gage and the sensor end are good, then the gage is not working, which could have been caused by the destruction of the sensor, when the Bearing went bad.