Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:01:48 -0700
Reply-To: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Installing Golf/Jetta/Fox Speedo in a Syncro w/ Oil Pressure
Buzzer
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Please post your for sale items under a separate thread. I can appreciate that you have something to sell but hijacking my speedo build thread is inappropriate and unrelated to the subject.
Just FYI, my cost so far in this project is $10 for the used Fox cluster. It's doubtful you will find someone knowledgeable about Syncro parts to sell you a speedo at that price. My purpose for posting this is to let people know there is an alternative to paying high prices for NLA speedos.
BenT
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Dylan Friedman <insyncro@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: insyncro@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:45:19
> To: BenT Syncro<syncro@GMAIL.COM>
> Reply-To: insyncro@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Installing Golf/Jetta/Fox Speedo in a Syncro w/ Oil Pressure Buzzer
>
> I have bare syncro speedometers and complete syncro clusters available.
> Been selling them on a regular basis.
> I have all syncro specific parts available from usdm vans from 86-91.
> If the part is NLA I charge roughly the retail price for good used.
>
> Dylan
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:17:02
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Reply-To: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Installing Golf/Jetta/Fox Speedo in a Syncro w/ Oil Pressure
> Buzzer
>
> Alistair suggested this might be useful on the List as well.
>
> BenT
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:52 PM
> Subject: Installing Golf/Jetta/Fox Speedo in a Syncro w/ Oil Pressure Buzzer
> To: BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com>
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> It is well known that the MPH speedometer for the Syncro is NLA from VW. In
> response to a fellow Syncronaut Craig's unsuccessful attempt to locate a
> replacement speedometer for the one missing from his recently purchased
> Syncro, I decided to assemble one from a Golf/Jetta/Fox based on information
> written previously by fellow listmembers. I specifically read postings by
> Mark Drillock and made phone call inquiries to Dan Fleming.
>
> For my project, I decided to use a speedo from a late-80's to early 90's VW
> Fox because it is a close match to the Syncro 1600 speedo at 1575 (plus I
> found one with very low miles with very little wear). Since VW tended to
> calibrate their speedo's to read faster, this arrangement may actually yield
> better accuracy. I have the speedo assembled now and pics with captions
> posted here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/syncrospeedo
>
> I have not figured out a way to add the dynamic oil pressure printed circuit
> yet. In the stock plastic Vanagon backing plate there is small recess for
> the buzzer and a hole for the harness connector. None in the steel
> backingplate. There are PC board is held in place by molded clips in the
> plastic cluster. Those are absent from the steel backing plate. I am looking
> for suggestions to this problem before starting to cut holes in the backing
> plate.
>
> (NOTE to my friends on the OZ List: I am sending a copy of this email to the
> group in case you run into the same speedo shortage we are having in the US)
>
> Corrections and comments welcome.
>
>
>
>
> BenT
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