Sigh...it probably has gotten a whisker of steel stuck in the magnet gap. If not then there is something else interfering mechanically with it. Your dropped lightbulb didn't go *inside* the tach, did it? You're not going to enjoy fixing this... david At 03:31 PM 4/20/2001, Jeff Palmer wrote: >I removed the instrument cluster to change the light bulb behind >my digital clock yesterday. when i reconnected the tach it >seems stuck at about 1000 and won't rest at 0. it also >hesitates when accelerating, as if it's stuck or not. any >solutions? is there a problem with the connection, or is it >something in the instrument itself causing it to stick? >everything else is working normally (including the digital >clock, now illuminated). David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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