Use graphite on the cable. I've had similar problems on my other vehicles (not my vanagons) and put some graphite on the cable and it stopped. It seems they tend to dry out with age. I was told by some mechanics that graphite is what they put in there to begin with. If you put oil or grease on it, that only attracts dirt and your noise will come right back.

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-----Original Message----- From: DAPrescott@AOL.COM <DAPrescott@AOL.COM> To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM> Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 9:18 AM Subject: noisy speedo in cold weather

>This happened yesterday morning -- After I reached about 50mph (80kph) my >speedo started an awful racket (humming/screaming/grinding) and increased >indicated speed -- to the point that it pinned on the highway. I got >concerned and disconnected it. Later in the day, I reconnected it, and there >was no problem. I'm assuming some lubrication problem because of the apparent >correlation to temperature. Cold weather has arrived here in SE PA, and >though yesterday (and again today!) temps reached the upper 60's (+/- 20C for >the rest of the world), early mornings are in the 30's (1 -2C). >Any ideas about what's going on inside my speedo, and more importantly, how to >remedy? >TIA Doug