Re: [DML] Re: I broke my own speed-o-meter :-(

["robert parker" <roberthparker@xxxx>]

Slightly safer method: jack left front wheel, perform cable adjustments as 
below, (now you need another person), by hand spin tire counter-clockwise & 
observe for needle movement. Drive Stainless Robert VIN 6924


> From: "Jim Reeve" <ultra@xxxx>
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> Subject: [DML] Re: I broke my own speed-o-meter :-(
> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:15:58 -0000
>
> 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

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