Quote: (Originally Posted by
lizardland)
My CK is the old style with push on barbed hose fitting, has anyone fitted a Shearwater to one of these without buying a new kidney from Bruce? What I'd like to do is fit the Shearwater to one of the display ports and retain the remaining two displays as a secondary. I'm not entirely sure how you'd fit a Fischer cable to a barbed fitting though. When I bought it, the previous owner had fitted a VR£ cable to a barb but I can't recall how he did it as the first thing I did was remove it. Doh!
I know I'd also have to modify the kidney to connect the Shearwater cable to all the cells but I've got a spare kidney and it looks simple enough. I suppose Plan B is to replace one of the barbs with a gland. I suppose I should really just buy a Shearwater kidney but I'd like some kind of secondary display (i.e. not a HUD).
Cheers,
Stuart
Hi Stuart, I have this done on my classic. I have used all three cells for the Shearwater and not bothered to keep any of the original displays. You will have to drill a small hole through the three ports to be able to get the wires through. You can unscrew one of the barb fittings and re-tap the kidney to take the Ficher gland. I have to admit that the work to the kidney was done by John (Narked at 90) BUT we were having a 'few' vodkas at the time so proof it aint that hard to do
