Small Leak Tach Drive Gear

trianglelaguna wrote: i think the out seal has ring/spring pressed into a groove in the taller rubber seal...yours being baked it stayed in the recess right...sharp tiny screwdriver....dental pick...freeze it for a few hours???

hay guys is there any way to order just the outer cheap (like 5 bucks ) seal and use some viton or decent orings inside,and not have to buy the metal drive housing...all the seal "kits" show the metal bolted piece and are 30-40 bucks?...does the metal part wear out too...am i being cheap here...mine leaks on everywhere...makes it look like my head is leaking...gets on the pipe...time to fix

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You can buy the seal, o-ring, and gasket seperately from any Kawasaki dealer, or Z1E should be able to order them for you. They (shown as parts lableled 21, 22, and 28 in diagram below) all are still "Active" parts. The total cost for all three parts is less than $9 at Ronayers.com; of that the seal is $5.29. Ed

awesome thanks Ed

alparmer wrote: Well, that retainer ring was actually part of the seal. I pried it out and put the new seal in without problems.

I got everything installed and when I went to put in the new tach cable...freaggin' heck, the nut cracked again. Last time it cracked when I went to loosen it, now when I was tightening it. I didn't realized they were so fragile. I was tightening it with pliers, and it looks like it should only be by hand. The new cable I ordered was NOS. Now I have two perfectly good tach cables without the nuts that tighten them to the drive gear. What a waste.

Can the nut come off on the KZ650? It does on the KZ900. Had the same thing happen to me one day before a scheduled ride after re-assembling the head. I was able to match my broken nut to one from a local junk yard. The one I matched was the type that doesn't come off the cable, but this junk cable was toast. So I was able to buy it for a couple of bucks and cut the cable to remove it and then use my dremel to modify the nut to be able to slip it onto my cable. Just an option if you want to be able to salvage that new cable you have. The nut I found at the junk yard seemed to be made of stronger material than the one I replaced.

No, it doesn't come off. The cable is crimped so there is no way to remove the nut. I thought about removing the inner cable to cut the outer cable in order to install a new nut, but I didn't have anything close to that type of nut. I was able to find another cable for 10 bucks and this time I'll hand tighten and add some thread lock