The good and the bad news, Chicago region concours Options

[914Next]

Decided to drive down to Elkhart lake with a couple of friends for the PCA Chicago Region concours. Great day of driving and showing.....except for the rain in the way down....and my odo crapping out.

Good news, The judges saw fit to give the '73 the Best in show award.







The bad news is that my odo crapped out on the way home. Started squealing terribly and the speedometer started bouncing. Was still turning over the miles on the odo at first but I had to keep driving and after obnoxious squealing for about 25 miles the squealing (mostly) stopped, the speedometer stopped (mostly) bouncing but still works but the odor stopped turning over. So.....whats your diagnosis? Likely as simple as a cable or do I have an inoperative Speedo/odo unit now. Will post a video if it will load in the next post as it won't fit here. Thanks for the help.

[DC_neun_vierzehn]

Congrats! That's a great story.

Sorry about the speedo.

Same thing happened to my speedo on a highway not too long ago (it started screeching and the needle started bouncing). Luckily, I had a spare at home and swapped them out.

I'm planning on sending my speedo to Palo Alto Speedometer in CA to restore it. From my research the noise and malfunction is the gears coming unglued on the spindle inside and needing to be repaired.

There's a lot of info out there if you have the patience and desire and dare to do it yourself. Otherwise, consider sending it to a reputable shop to restore (they'll rebuild the gears, clean or replace the glass face, repaint the bezel, repaint the needle orange, etc.) it will look and work like new.

[914Next]

Congrats! That's a great story.

Sorry about the speedo.

Same thing happened to my speedo on a highway not too long ago (it started screeching and the needle started bouncing). Luckily, I had a spare at home and swapped them out.

I'm planning on sending my speedo to Palo Alto Speedometer in CA to restore it. From my research the noise and malfunction is the gears coming unglued on the spindle inside and needing to be repaired.

There's a lot of info out there if you have the patience and desire and dare to do it yourself. Otherwise, consider sending it to a reputable shop to restore (they'll rebuild the gears, clean or replace the glass face, repaint the bezel, repaint the needle orange, etc.) it will look and work like new.

Thanks. And while your response is not the view I was hoping for, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the problem. Now if that is the consensus here, my next question is how hard and intrusive is it to remove the Speedometer. I'm pretty handy but my skills only go so far. And nothing has ever been touched on this car.