white faced instruments

[phil the greek]

erm - this might sound a bit silly, but I quite like the white faced instruments some of the early Triumph triples had.

My instruments look like this (without the carbon look stuff)

which bikes had the white faced version of these (if any) and is there an easy way to do this or is it a case of buying the whole instrument panel and doing a straight swap?

[daytonacharlie]

ptg,
The instruments on any 94-96 Daytona (900/1200) should fit right into the same space as yours. I found these on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/TRIUMPH-USED-INSTRUMENT-ASSY-KPH-2500700T0301-Daytona_W0QQitemZ290365989328QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK _Motorcycle_Parts?hash=item439b2961d0
They're a bit pricey. If not these, be patient and keep watching ebay, another set will most likely come round from time to time.


dc

[djs]

Go all Blue Peter and give these a whirl (and it's not silly I have the white clocks with a blue LED back light, too cool for skool me)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TRIUMPH-SPRINT...ht_7543wt_1540

[daytonacharlie]

Originally Posted by djs

Go all Blue Peter and give these a whirl (and it's not silly I have the white clocks with a blue LED back light, too cool for skool me)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TRIUMPH-SPRINT-ST-FRONT-LOOM-CLOCKS-DIALS-SPEEDO-GAUGES_W0QQitemZ290368534674QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_ Motorcycle_Parts?hash=item439b503892#ht_7543wt_154 0

nice find but I don't think they'll work on a 97 Sprint. Those are for a later model

[djs]

Hence my 'Blue Peter' comment. With the combined knowledge on this board I reckon that you could wire anything to anything, get someone to paint/spray or mould it, then fit it to just about anything on wheels.

[daytonacharlie]

Originally Posted by djs

Hence my 'Blue Peter' comment. With the combined knowledge on this board I reckon that you could wire anything to anything, get someone to paint/spray or mould it, then fit it to just about anything on wheels.

true enough!

[Nobeard]

I converted my Trophy into a Daytona and bought the white face clocks from Triumphant for £50 - partly cos I kept getting outbid on ebay

[Flying Custard]

Depending how much faff yr willing to go through, some clocks can be opened up and faces replaced. I made some before (not for a Trumpet) with a graphics package and a printer, sprayed with lacquer.

Advantage is you get to keep your miles reading, but it is a fiddle... pretty Blue Peter though!

[KitNYC]

FYI, the T3 series has a mechanically driven speedo and the newer ones are electronic. This means that it would be a royal pain to get newer clocks to work with older bikes. Not impossible, but quite a pain.

Also, it's not difficult to move the odometer forward on the Trident clocks, anyway. I bought a set of clocks off eBay at around 33k, and the "new" ones only had about 4k on them. I brought them up to my mileage, matched to the tenth, before installing them. (Not that it did me much good, with all the unclocked miles that motor had on it before I bought it... )

Cheers,
-Kit

[phil the greek]

well there seem to be several sets of white-faced Daytona 900 clocks on ebay, so getting hold of a set won't be a problem, just got to figure out if I want to open 'em up and do a clock-face swap or just plug'n'play with the new set.

I'm not going to try and get anything that wasn't originally on an old carb-fed 900 triple to work otherwise I feel I may be in the garage for quite a while with unpredictable results