Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:25:08 -0700
Reply-To: Edward V Barger <edvbarger@MAC.COM>
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From: Edward V Barger <edvbarger@MAC.COM>
Subject: Re: another odometer repair
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along that line ………. my needle fails to move to reflect the speed then I bump the housing with the heel of my hand and it works
Will some simple fix like putting some lube in there do the trick to make it work normally?? It has been like this for years
ed
Edward V Barger
edvbarger@mac.com
310 922 6251
> On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> I think I've got it now, but only miles will tell.
>
> One more thing I forgot to write. In researching all the ways people fix
> these I came across the thing again about "do not reset the trip odo while
> the van is moving!" before I fixed mine the metal gear was turning very
> freely and I experimented with resetting the trip odo while feeling the
> load on that gear whether it was moving or not. I could not feel any
> additional load on that gear no matter what I did. As soon as I started
> depressing that button it took all the load off that gear rotating. no
> matter how I let it go I didn't feel any grabbing or popping or anything
> that seems like it could affect the gear or what connects to it.
>
> Edward
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I had mine out several times before the aggregated fixes kept it
>> working. I have probably just jinxed myself.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> Mobile
>>
>>> On Jun 22, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Edward Maglott <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1986 with AT
>>>
>>> Been in there twice before getting the plastic gear secured, this time it
>>> was the gray metal one slipping on the other end of the same shaft. I
>>> really didn't want to take the plastic gear off since I finally got it
>>> secured on the previous repair. I had also made a stop so that it or the
>>> whole shaft couldn't slide out in that direction.
>>>
>>> So I slid that shaft back just enough that I could get the gray metal
>> gear
>>> out of there. I put in in a vise and peened those collars around the
>> shaft
>>> hole on both sides of the gear. when I went to slide the shaft back
>>> through it, it was very tight. I ended up using the vise to press it
>> back
>>> in! I used a small socket to back up the plastic housing the shaft goes
>>> through and turns in. That went OK and the gear is on there tight.
>>>
>>> The other thing I did this time was to rig up a way to test the
>> speedo/odo
>>> off the van. I used a length of wire that fit in the place where the
>>> speedo cable goes and put the other end in a drill. That registered
>> about
>>> 70mph on the speedo and I could check that all the gears were turning
>>> properly. If I had done that the previous time I probably would have
>> found
>>> that the gray metal gear was not secure on the shaft.
>>>
>>> Edward
>>
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