<VV> Speedo

[Eric S. Eberhard]

I believe Harry but the situation is odd.  I had the problem, changed 
the speedo, and had the same problem.  This seems wildly 
improbable.  The behavior was that in summer it was perfect and noisy 
(front and rear) and in winter it would not work for 10 minutes until 
things warmed up, and then it worked perfectly.  I swapped those 
speedos back (my insurance company has been having fits since they 
check my miles for low miles insurance and it went up 20k then back 
down 20k).  It always behaved the same way until I lubed the cable 
housing to stop the noise and the winter "delay" ... now it is silent 
and the speedo does not work.  So I already swapped the other back in 
and it does not work.  Silently of course.

So to believe it is the speedo is to believe that two speedo have 
exactly the same problem ... which is possible ...

The existing cable sticks into the car about 1/2+ inches more than an 
NOS one I have so I swapped those with no change.  Since pulling the 
speedo is such a pain ... I think I'll try the cable one more time 
from a known working car ... and if that does not work buy a rebuilt 
speedo (I'm not going to take that apart more than once!).  I'll keep 
you all posted ... might be a few weeks.  Eric


At 10:34 PM 10/31/2011, Chris & Bill Strickland wrote:
>Eric --
>
>You've got two that don't work -- disassemble one of them and learn 
>why, since you seemingly don't want to believe Harry.  If the odo 
>works, the cable is working, just that the gears and wheels past the 
>odo aren't -- like maybe the needle pivots needs lubed, or the 
>spiders, ants, and beetles need to be removed -- remember, it is 
>driven magnetically.
>
>Bill


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