Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:19:47 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: "Rrrr, rrrrr, rrrr..skritch skritch...rrr rrr " (speedo noise?)
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I recently replaced my speedo with one from Ebay with a working Odo. 84
van..later model speedo now. At first (for about 600 miles) it worked
really great, smooth quiet accurate to 1-2% even though I couldn't get the
cable connection at the rear of the housing to "click-on" all the way. Has
a white plastic lever (on the cable fitting) that is supposed to click over
a groove in the speedo and 'anchor' the cable in.. On the old speedo you
needed to squeeze that lever to release a little hook so you could pull out
that cable.
The new one I installed, no matter how hard I push the cable and it's
housing onto the instrument, it won't click on...but that didn't seem to be
important to how the speedo and Odo worked until it got a bit cold (27f)
recently..It began making the noise in the Subject line of this post and the
needle of the speedo is now oscillating a little. I've removed that
connection and put a little lube on the cable end and tried to re-insert it
with a little help from some long-handled needle nose pliers...still can't
get it to click on. When I had the two speedos on the bench side by
side...I could detect no difference in the configuration of the female (on
the speedo itself) half of the connections..
So should I just 'push harder'...? Get a bigger "Pliers"? Is there more
than one type of 'push-on' speedo cable or instrument? Is there a 'trick'
to getting the connection correct...?
Anybody hints?
Don Hanson
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