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steviee7 01-06-2004 01:07 PM

intermittent CLOCK
 
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 01-06-2004 01:22 PM

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 01-06-2004 01:34 PM

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

steviee7 01-06-2004 01:37 PM

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

thanks

cmonref 01-06-2004 03:18 PM

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 01-06-2004 03:58 PM

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


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