Re: Parts/Service Resources Please
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 1:30 pm
Give Terry Vrla a call or email. He is a small independent gauge rebuilder who posts on ADVRider.com as Wirespokes. Excellent work, good deals, but he can take awhile to get things done. Maybe best to wait until riding season ends... Here is his standard instruction sheet: I'm sending you this generic message to ensure I get all the data important to the repair. Some questions may not apply, just complete what you can. The easiest way to do this is type in your answers, print, and put a copy in the package with the gauges. But however you do it, please enclose a note otherwise I might think they're a donation or a recent parts purchase.
1. If the mileage isn't correct, what should it be?
2. What's wrong? Symptoms?
3. Do you want a full service or only certain repairs?
4. Let me know if there are any, not obvious, problems that need addressing - I'll be sure to check them out.
5. Is the speedometer correct for your final drive? If you don't know - record the number on the drive - it's near the shock mount by the drive shaft. It's stamped into the aluminum and will be something like 37/11, 32/10, etc.
6. If there are multiple gauges - please label them or in some way make them identifiable. -anything to keep confusion to a minimum. If they're all getting the full treatment, then it's not a big deal.
7. If shipping gauges with nothing protecting the face (not in the pod) - protect the delicate needles from bending or breakage. Wrapping a rag around the gauge won't protect the needle! I like using a plastic food container (yogurt, cottage cheese, dip, etc) and taping the container over the face. Another solution, if using a larger container, place the gauge inside face up, and then form some cardboard into a tube that presses down on the gauge (not on the face), when the lid is attached. Tape it all together.
8. Find a package that's at least a couple inches larger in each dimension than the gauge(s). If several gauges, wrap them up separately so they won't damage each other during transport. It doesn't hurt to use a much larger box, and is actually preferable.
9. Remember that peanuts make great packing material, but allow things to migrate within the box. A plastic bag semi-filled with peanuts makes a great cushion and can prevent that happening. Whichever way you do it, try to ensure the important stuff stays in the middle of all the padding.
10. Give me your contact info so I can reach you, or for filling out the shipping label:
Screen name
Real name
Address
Phone number
10. Here's my contact info:
Terry Vrla
776 SE 3rd Ave
Hillsboro, OR 97123
503 421 5782
wirespokes@hotmail.com
1. If the mileage isn't correct, what should it be?
2. What's wrong? Symptoms?
3. Do you want a full service or only certain repairs?
4. Let me know if there are any, not obvious, problems that need addressing - I'll be sure to check them out.
5. Is the speedometer correct for your final drive? If you don't know - record the number on the drive - it's near the shock mount by the drive shaft. It's stamped into the aluminum and will be something like 37/11, 32/10, etc.
6. If there are multiple gauges - please label them or in some way make them identifiable. -anything to keep confusion to a minimum. If they're all getting the full treatment, then it's not a big deal.
7. If shipping gauges with nothing protecting the face (not in the pod) - protect the delicate needles from bending or breakage. Wrapping a rag around the gauge won't protect the needle! I like using a plastic food container (yogurt, cottage cheese, dip, etc) and taping the container over the face. Another solution, if using a larger container, place the gauge inside face up, and then form some cardboard into a tube that presses down on the gauge (not on the face), when the lid is attached. Tape it all together.
8. Find a package that's at least a couple inches larger in each dimension than the gauge(s). If several gauges, wrap them up separately so they won't damage each other during transport. It doesn't hurt to use a much larger box, and is actually preferable.
9. Remember that peanuts make great packing material, but allow things to migrate within the box. A plastic bag semi-filled with peanuts makes a great cushion and can prevent that happening. Whichever way you do it, try to ensure the important stuff stays in the middle of all the padding.
10. Give me your contact info so I can reach you, or for filling out the shipping label:
Screen name
Real name
Address
Phone number
10. Here's my contact info:
Terry Vrla
776 SE 3rd Ave
Hillsboro, OR 97123
503 421 5782
wirespokes@hotmail.com
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