Lawrence Johnson wrote: > Get some liquid graphite cable lubricant from your FLAPS (aka Canadian > Tire). Disconnect the speedometer cable at the back of the speedometer. Add > drop by drop to the cable end. Be very careful not to spill any (remember > carbon is a good electrical conductor). Put it all back together. After a > few hundred km, if the whine is still with you, add some more liquid > graphite. Twice should be plenty. My speedo also growls, but it has nothing to do with temperature. It does it more as the speed decreases. In addition to the sound, the needle fluctuates. Both the sound and the fluctuation slow down as the speed increases. Does this also sound like the cable problem calling for the graphite ? |
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