Clock Battery Replacement

[retcol]

If the digital clock on your 1100 Kat isn't working due to dead batteries, you may want to just leave it alone. Since I'm a perfectionist and want everything working properly on my bike, I decided to replace the batteries so my clock would work. I can't believe the Suzuki engineers couldn't design a better clock arrangement that doesn't require so work work to just replace two little batteries! First, you have to remove the upper and lower fairings, then remove the headlight, remove the instrument cluster, then remove the screws that hold the plastic cover on the instrument pack, then remove the 2 screws that hold the clock onto the plastic facing, then remove the 8 tiny screws that hold the back cover on the clock. You'll need a very small screwdriver, like a jeweler's screwdriver, to get these tiny screws out. Then and only then can you remove the back of the clock to get to the 2 batteries. Of course, once you install the 2 new batteries, you have to reassemble everything again. Alot of work indeed! I wish I would have taken photo's to post on here, but i had no idea it was going to be such a labor intensive ordeal. Anyway, now everything works properly on my Kat, even the clock!

[shpielers]

Any chance you remember what type/size batteries it takes? I need to replace mine as well.

[loneraider]

If anyone else has this problem in the future, the batteries were Sony
SR44W. There were 2 of them. They are 1.5 volts each. I replaced
them with 2 batteries from Radio Shack, their part number was 23-009
If you do a search on radioshack.com with that part number it brings
up all the pertinent specifications and cross reference numbers for
other manufacturers.


1.55V/200mAh


copied from the net. Changed both of mine ,a pain In the *** to do
I don't believe I removed the headlight just the cluster,.

[4wred]

I replaced the batteries in mine but I already had the fairing off for other work I was doing.Gonna have to replace my clock cause one of the segments in the display isn't working,I can still tell what time it is just looks weird.Next time i have it apart I'm gonna run a couple wires out of the clock to a remote location on the fairing to a battery pack.Might even build a power supply for it to go from 12v down to the proper voltage for the clock.

[KAT TOY]

I velcro'd a digital watch on top of the clock space on my post 750. not factory but I know what time it is.