At 02:42 PM 9/28/2008, Richard A Jones wrote: >The speedo in my '87 Syncro reads 4 mph too high >over the whole range. So could I not just re-position >the needle to fix this? Yes. > Suggestions on how to do this? Carefully, those old needles are likely quite brittle.
>The odo reads about 5% high, too. That is, 10 real >miles gets 10.5 on the odo. Why is that? Isn't it >geared correctly? Exactly. > Could Palo Alto Speedo have changed >this when they overhauled it a while back? No, they couldn't (I think). Certainly not without knowing about it. But they can probably sell you a correcting capsule to go in the input cable that would fix it. It would also change the rate on the speedometer though, so your constant +4 would become -1 at full scale. Suggest talk to them. David -- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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