Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 22:48:57 -0400
Reply-To: Gary <glmcen@NETSCAPE.NET>
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From: Gary <glmcen@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject: Re: Speedometer Calibration/ Gear failure
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Hi Bill
I have seen and experieced this failure in the past on several occasions. The nylon gear is split and eventually cannot grip the shaft it is pressed onto. The gear will continue to grip the shaft and do its' job as long as the driving force is insufficient to cause it to slip on the shaft that it is pressed onto! The resulting failure may only become evident... when sufficient force is applied to the gear to cause it to slip!
This doesn't mean that resetting the odometer causes the failure...only that the additional stress caused by resetting the odometer makes the damage to the gear apparent! After looking at this issue...it is my opinion that the failure already occurred before the problem made itself evident! The gear was overstressed by being applied over the shaft. The failure was the direct result of this.
Gary
Bill N <freeholder@STARBAND.NET> wrote:
>May well be tripe, etc., and one event is not scientific evidence, but this was my experience a
>couple of years ago. I pushed the trip odometer reset (while moving) and felt an odd click.
>That was it. The odometer never recorded another mile. Obviously, resetting while moving will
>not always damage the odometer, and anything that occurs in an unpredictable way at wide
>intervals is bound to be controversial.
>
>There was a controversy around meteors for many years. Occasionally, someone would hear one.
>The noise took two forms. One form is basically a sonic boom, or compression wave. It is
>heard as a sharp crack in the area directly under the meteor, and as a rumble further away.
>The other form is harder to explain. It sounds like bacon sizzling or static, and is heard at
>the same time as the meteor is seen, with no delay. This would indicate an electromagnetic
>origin rather than sound waves. For years, many scientists claimed it was impossible, but it
>nevertheless turned out to be real.
>
>A lot of people have reported their experience with resetting the trip odometer while moving
>breaking their odometer. Perhaps it has just been coincidence that these malfunctions occurred
>concurrently with resetting while moving, but I plan to only reset while stopped, just in case.
>
>Bill
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Alofs" <lalofs@ENTERACT.COM>
>>
>> BTW the legend about the possibility of damaging the odometer by pushing
>> the trip reset while moving is alive and well on the Saab forums as well
>> as this list. As someone who has been in there, I agree with David B.
>> and others who have said "balderdash, kapiffle, and tripe!"
>
--
Gary McEachern
Reading, Ma
'90 Westy
'86 Subavanagon
'87 Syncro
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