Thanks for the information
@Rubenbank
I spotted the email heading and headed straight to it to warn against hitting it with anything.
Too late.
The same thing happened with my seized sensor in my 1100. I found a tiny gap between the casting on the stalk that holds the sensor and the flange on the sensor itself. A miniature screw driver was a nice wedge fit - so I tapped it into position hoping that the wedge shape would slowly lift it out with a few taps. Everso gentle taps - I mean kid gloves - I clould have flicked it harder.
I know the dangers of cast metals - I had a truing frame (well it was Dad's, but I used to use it a lot) for when I used to re-spoke and true my own bicycle wheels. The hand wheel turns were a bit awkward to rotate, and I almost had them so that I could get the axle out - it just needed a bit more - it was about a mm, so I just tried to spring the arms apart. It just came off in my hand Dad.
But this was only a little tap - nothing significant, there was no way that this little tap - it was only intended to drive the sensor upwards. Nevertheless - it just snapped off close to the base of the stalk.
I took the expensive way out and ordered a new side of the final drive, a couple of shims and got the dealer to use their press to get the bevel gear shimmed properly to mesh the gears at the correct spot. Then fitted a different sensor. I never did find a way to get that sensor out of the bracket. Photo on the right shows the newly fitted part - the cleanest part of my ST1100 at the time.
Afterwards I saw someone else had a solution which involved fashoining a bracket out of aluminium sheet that was bolted in place by the two bolts either side of the stalk.
Thereafter I took both sensors out at every service, cleaned them up, checked them and re-applied some Honda Moly 60 paste to the sides.
The 1300 has a different arrangement - a sensor that is much smaller diameter than the hole in the bracket, and a rubber seal above to seat it properly. But guess who still applies Moly paste to the cylindrical walls of his sensors every winter ?
(nb Moly paste is not essential. It just needs to be something waterproof that stays in place.)
