Dear Paul, The gear in the odometer is gone bunkers (has a crack on it) and thus acts up when you put it back into the dash.... There are fixes for this. HTH, Tony On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Paul Chubbuck <paul@takingflight.net>wrote: > I have a 1982 diesel to gas conversion. > > A few days ago the odometer quit working. The speedometer is working fine, > so obviously, the cable inside the cable housing is turning properly. I > removed the instrument and, using a drill with proper square bit, spun the > instrument, and on the table, both speedometer and odometer worked fine, > but > after I reinstalled everything, it was the same as before. > > Any idea what is going on here? > > Paul from Colorado >
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