Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:16:36 -0400
Reply-To: T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
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From: T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Speedo repair question
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Wanted to say that I used this guide to get into my cluster yesterday. I
had taken it out of the vanagon to do the LED light upgrade. At that time I
noticed that one of the PO must have been in it before, as it had the signs
of being "repaired." It has worked intermittently since I had it. I say
that someone had been in there because I see a metal tab being used to
hold in place the top right gear that runs of the corkscrew.
Finally, it was time to get this fix. The issue in mine was the gray metal
gear at the right was freewheeling on the gear shaft. I made some
indentations to capture that gear onto the shaft. I was a PITA to slide
everything into place, but it got done.
odometers are both working and I added mileage to it as it should be.
So thanks for putting this out there!
T.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just did this repair.
>
> Same idea, but I found that a square faced punch and very light tap
> with hammer did same. Also, as per your comment, I also made a small
> bracket (tab) to keep the shaft and gear in place should either "walk"
> out again.
>
> Some pics here of an '85 1.9 WBX speedometer I repaired:
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/1985VanagonTransporterSpeedometerGuts
>
> One thing that i didn't get right on this speedometer was the main and
> trip odometer coordination; when trip odo white wheel hits 0 the main
> odo does not flip to next number. Simply zeroing the trip odometer
> (once speedometer installed) doesn't seem to do it.
>
> If one takes the numbers off the speedo, I'm not sure if one should
> zero the trip odo first, but there is a slot on the upper RH gear (or
> wheel? can't recall) that should somehow coordinate with the trip odo
> via the small black gear.
>
> I may take my older diesel speedo apart again and take some of what I
> mean.
>
> Neil.
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 1) The little nylon gear .... A little retaining tab can be installed
> to hold it in position.
> >
> > 2) The metal gear on the right/passenger side..... I staked mine by
> using diagonal pliers to make little raised bite marks on the shaft that
> hold the gear in place.
>
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
> Blog: tubaneil.blogspot.ca
>
> '88 Westy http://tinyurl.com/c8rlw6p
>
> '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
>
> Vanagon VAG Gas inline-VR Engine Swap Group:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/d7gd5ej
>
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