Date:         Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:17:04 -0600
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: "Rrrr, rrrrr,
              rrrr..skritch skritch...rrr rrr " (speedo noise?)
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On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Tom Buese wrote:

> On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> Hi Don,
>>
>> I get a similar noise speedo on my 71 bay window. The needle bounced
>> around like you are describing, also. Turned out to be that the
>> speedo
>> cable needed lubing. I don't recall if I replaced it or squirted
>> some lube
>> down it, but the solution was pretty easy.
>

Typo correction:

> The SPEEDO NEEDLE will bounce around like that if the cable has too
> tight of a
> bend from the left front wheel to the speedo, & will break if left
> that way.  Ask moi how I know?
>
> YMMV,
>
> Mr. BZ-cable #3 for the 65 westy coming up
>
>
>>
>> Can't help you with the no-snap-in thing.
>>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>> Bend, OR
>> KG6RCR
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/2009 9:19 AM Don Hanson wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>