{"id":32528,"date":"2021-08-23T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T10:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=32528"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:35","slug":"gsx1200s-oil-cooled-katana-speedometer-oh-needle-replacement-oil-cooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20210823\/everyday-events\/gsx1200s-oil-cooled-katana-speedometer-oh-needle-replacement-oil-cooled","title":{"rendered":"GSX1200S Oil-cooled Katana Speedometer OH Needle Replacement Oil-cooled Maintenance and More"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is there a bright future here for the Inazuma 1200?
It becomes a Katana, then an Impulse, then a GS, and so on…

On the flip side, if we made it an XJR… that wouldn’t make sense, right?
I saw a picture the other day of an XJR with Katana bodywork on it\u2014that could work too, you know?
There’s plenty of donor bikes out there… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll start by sending the meter out for work (‘\u03c9’)\u30ce<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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It’s been used quite a bit.
This Katana’s meter used to be easy to find back in the day\u2014how times change.
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Repro needles are being released by Unicorn JAPAN, so the customer brought them in.
I’ll remove them and send them out.

This buys us a little time… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hehehehe ( *\u00b4\u8278\uff40)

This is what happens when you use only titanium and stainless steel…
The bolt on the right side of the engine lower is seized and won’t come out.

Plus the head is tapered, so it strips easily.
I gave it a shot with a 1\/2-inch socket and heard a crunch, but it would definitely collapse if I kept going, so I stopped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These tapered heads have thin material, so they spread and strip very easily\u2014watch out.

Bolt removal work gets charged by the hour spent on it.
If you catch it before it breaks, you at least have the choice to remove it or not, which might be easier on everyone (‘\u03c9’)\u30ce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is there a bright future here for the Inazuma 1200? It becomes a Katana, then an Impulse, then a GS, and so on… On the flip side, if we made it an XJR… that wouldn’t make sense, right? I saw a picture the other day of an XJR with Katana bodywork on it\u2014that could work too, you know? There’s plenty of donor bikes out there… We’ll start by sending the meter out for work (‘\u03c9’)\u30ce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[257,352,120,1919],"class_list":["post-32528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-inazuma-1200","tag-meter-oh","tag-oil-cooled-katana","tag-oil-cooled-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}