[Aslet]

I have done this twice now... First time I moved the gear over and it stayed in place for a few thousand miles (didn't glue it). Second time (a month ago) I moved the gear back into place and it lasted 70 miles! I have talked to some people before, and the glue might help for awhile, but will not last for ever. I also made the bad mistake the first time I had the gauge open, while messing around with parts and figuring out what was what, of removing the speedo needle! I think that the speedo was almost exact before this happened, after it was off. I tried to fix last time I did the gear a month ago and made it worse (about 5mph over the real speed)! I do also have a bit of a jumpy needle. I can really notice when going under 20mph, the needle can't stay in one spot. I think part of my problem (other then the uncalibrated needle) is the clip that hold the end of the cable to the front driver wheel hub. If you have ever noticed, when your wheel is off, the hub cap should have the end of the cable sticking out and secured with a C-clip. I noticed mine fell of when I was tightening my bearings. I think this could account for some of my mystery jumping. So I will replace the clip and hope it will help. I am also gonna bite the bullet and spend the $130 to have North Hollywood Speedo refurbish the speedo/odometer. They get it so the gear will work well and stay in place and will recalibrate my speedo, so I should be good for another 200,000 miles!

Moral of the story- if you fix it by hand, you WILL be doing it again in the future (hope that it lasts many thousands of miles), then you will have to do it again and hope it lasts for awhile, and repeat. If you get it fixed up by the pros, you should be fine for a long long time.


Sorry for the rambling!
-Randy