Re: I broke my own speed-o-meter :-(

["Jim Reeve" <ultra@xxxx>]

When my speedometer started acting funky, I also removed this cable. 
However, you shouldn't ever need to worry about this cable breaking 
because it has no possible exposure to weather, plus you dont want to 
gunk up the speedometer itself. When I removed my upper cable from 
the Yellow Box thingy (acually the LAMBDA counter), I noticed that 
when I put it back, the square end of the drive cable had moved a 
little, so it didn't match up with the square hole in the counter, 
despite the end being fully screwed in, (it just bowed inside the 
sleeve). What I would recommend doing is parking the car on a slight 
slope in neutral. Get in a posistion where you can access the 
cable-end in one hand, and control the parking brake in the other. 
While lining up the square end of the drive cable with the square
hole 
in the LAMBDA counter, slowly release the parking brake so the car 
rolls ever so slightly. When the front wheel turns, so will the hole 
in the counter, so the square will eventually line up, and when they 
do so, push it all the way in, stop the car, and completely screw the 
cable into the counter. If it worked, your speedometer should be 
working just fine now.

Jim Reeve
#6960

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Sacha Prins" <sprins@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Well, it happended to me too. Whilst replacing a broken metal wire 
that
> opens the bonnet/hood of my DeLorean I decided to unscrew the top 
part
> of the speed-o-meter cable (connected to that little yellow box) to 
see
> if it was lubricated enough and screwed it back (I generally enjoy
> unscrewing things and then screwing them back). However now my
> speed-o-meter is dead, *sigh*. Apparently I broke something (or 
wrongly
> assembled it). Anyone have an idea what I could do to fix a 
previously
> perfectly working speed-o-meter?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Sacha
> #17115
> 
> P.S. the hood opens correctly again