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.

[emerygt350]

I did it myself last year. I really enjoyed it actually. Removal is super easy. Just pullout the gauge and disconnect the speedo cable and lights (keep track of what goes where).

There are some good howtos out there if you want to try it yourself. The only delicate part is uncrimping the cover so it doesn't look shabby when you are done. Don't rush, take your time, it isn't hard or even frustrating , you just have to be careful and slow about that part. After that all you need to do is pull the drive gear from the odometer and smack a little dent in the gear where the shaft mounts. That deforms the hole a little bit and binds the gear on the shaft and you are good to go. If I remember right the gear is potted metal. You could glue it but this method is better for the future.

[914Next]

I did it myself last year. I really enjoyed it actually. Removal is super easy. Just pullout the gauge and disconnect the speedo cable and lights (keep track of what goes where).

There are some good howtos out there if you want to try it yourself. The only delicate part is uncrimping the cover so it doesn't look shabby when you are done. Don't rush, take your time, it isn't hard or even frustrating , you just have to be careful and slow about that part. After that all you need to do is pull the drive gear from the odometer and smack a little dent in the gear where the shaft mounts. That deforms the hole a little bit and binds the gear on the shaft and you are good to go. If I remember right the gear is potted metal. You could glue it but this method is better for the future.

Was able to pull the speedo out but I still can't reach around in back of it to disconnect cable and wires? Hate to pull too hard. Is there something that needs to be disconnected from the back first or do I just pull harder to be able to reach behind it to disconnect everything. Seems very tight.

[914Next]

I did it myself last year. I really enjoyed it actually. Removal is super easy. Just pullout the gauge and disconnect the speedo cable and lights (keep track of what goes where).

There are some good howtos out there if you want to try it yourself. The only delicate part is uncrimping the cover so it doesn't look shabby when you are done. Don't rush, take your time, it isn't hard or even frustrating , you just have to be careful and slow about that part. After that all you need to do is pull the drive gear from the odometer and smack a little dent in the gear where the shaft mounts. That deforms the hole a little bit and binds the gear on the shaft and you are good to go. If I remember right the gear is potted metal. You could glue it but this method is better for the future.

Was able to pull the speedo out but I still can't reach around in back of it to disconnect cable and wires? Hate to pull too hard. Is there something that needs to be disconnected from the back first or do I just pull harder to be able to reach behind it to disconnect everything. Seems very tight.

Ok, Pulled on the cable underneath the dash and got enough room to pull the speedo unit out. Disconnected the cable but how do you disconnect the other wires. The red one is obvious but the ones circled....not so much. Don't want tp pull on something and break a wire. Thanks for the help.

[914Next]

I did it myself last year. I really enjoyed it actually. Removal is super easy. Just pullout the gauge and disconnect the speedo cable and lights (keep track of what goes where).

There are some good howtos out there if you want to try it yourself. The only delicate part is uncrimping the cover so it doesn't look shabby when you are done. Don't rush, take your time, it isn't hard or even frustrating , you just have to be careful and slow about that part. After that all you need to do is pull the drive gear from the odometer and smack a little dent in the gear where the shaft mounts. That deforms the hole a little bit and binds the gear on the shaft and you are good to go. If I remember right the gear is potted metal. You could glue it but this method is better for the future.

Was able to pull the speedo out but I still can't reach around in back of it to disconnect cable and wires? Hate to pull too hard. Is there something that needs to be disconnected from the back first or do I just pull harder to be able to reach behind it to disconnect everything. Seems very tight.

Ok, Pulled on the cable underneath the dash and got enough room to pull the speedo unit out. Disconnected the cable but how do you disconnect the other wires. The red one is obvious but the ones circled....not so much. Don't want tp pull on something and break a wire. Thanks for the help.

Ok....one step at a time. Was able to figure out the odo cable disconnect. Now just looking for direction on the lighting wires. Do they just pull out? the one (ground?) is a spade connection, so obvious, but the others just enter the back of the unit and can't see how they are connected.