For $40 Van Cafe will fix the odometer for you. I just mailed mine off to them on Saturday: http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_371_1330/odometer_fix.html Cheers, Anthony'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> wrote: From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM> Subject: Re: Broken Odometer To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 6:24 AM The failure is a "moving apart" of some of the moving parts. One of the driven gears has a habit of slipping away from its driving gear. Lots of info on fixing this available here and on some threads (with pictures) on thesamba.com. It happened to the odo on my '87 Westy and after a couple of tries I was able to get it working again. The instrument cluster comes out and apart pretty easily. The toughest part is the lack of finger room when actually working on the odo. Stephen --- On Mon, 4/18/11, Daniel Rotblatt <d.rotblatt@VERIZON.NET> wrote: From: Daniel Rotblatt <d.rotblatt@VERIZON.NET> Subject: Broken Odometer To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 12:50 AM I'm looking at buying a westy. Two out of four of the vans I am looking at (or going to look at) have broken odometers (1982-86 vanagons), and a couple of others in that year range had broken odometers. Obviously, there is some common part that fails in them. I was wondering what this was, and if it was an easy fix. Dan L.A., CA Soon to be a Westy owner |
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