[DML] Breaking Angle Drive for Speedo

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am working on a Delorean now that had a non-functioning speedometer.
In the course of trying different things I noticed sometimes it seemed
difficult to turn the upper speedo cable that goes to the speedometer
head. When I pulled the binnacle I could hear something shaking around
inside. Upon opening up the binnacle and disassembling the speedo head
I found that the gauges are held to the plastic with special clips on
plastic pins. 2 pins had broken and still had the clips attached. One
was the "floater" but the other had gotten caught in the speedometer
mechanism. If you are having a lot of problems keeping the speedometer
going maybe it isn't a problem with the angle drive but these broken
pins and clips getting caught in the speedo head. I was able to glue
things back together for now. A suggestion, while you have the
binnacle out it is a good idea to just go ahead and replace all of the
light bulbs. I also had to reglue the copper traces back onto the film
in the areas where the plugs contact. Clean all the connections up
good, some of these connections are very low current so any resistance
will affect them, like the fuel gauge and the temp gauge. Don't be
tempted to remove any of the needles, they damage very easily and you
really don't have to anyway. Keep track of the placement of all the
nuts and washers, it is important that everything goes back in it's
correct place. BTW the reason one of the clips got caught is that in
the mechanism of the speedometer is a MAGNET! Any metal bouncing
around in the cluster will eventually find it and jam things up.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757




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