intermittent CLOCK

[steviee7]

Does anyones clock act like mine. YOu can set it and a day later it's stopped. And then it starts to work all by itself. Can these things be taken apart with ease and worked on or are they garbage.?

I've seen that you can take apart speedometers to fix the odometer but what about the darn clock.

It's not that I even use it, it's just that I want it to work when someone gets into my car.

thanks
se

[dheinz]

Steviee
Three years ago I had the same problem with the intermittently working clock. I was ready to buy a new clock but got side tracked. The original has kept perfect time ever since. It must have fixed itself.

[catuck]

Check the elect. connections. It could simply be a bad ground.

[steviee7]

I'll try that, I've already replaced and cleaned the connector for the Hot.
The hot connector looked pretty corroded.

thanks

[cmonref]

I fixed my '68 clock several years (30?) ago. Took it out and removed the back off of it. It had a little solenoid-type thing in it that winds a spring about every 8 minutes. The spring powers what looks like a standard clock mechanism. I stared and poked and messed around and found something binding. Worked a little distributor grease into the sticky part, without taking any of the fine mechanism apart, and was still running when I sold the car several years later.

[Larry Harris]

I really don't care if it works or not. I'm gonna take it out, throw if away and replace the hole with a voltmeter.

Larry