odometer repaired - long post

[nynor]

well, after 4 months of dealing with a fraudulent seller on eBay, i fixed my odemeter.

the seller, from florida, told me specifically that the odometer/speedometer was working. not the case. so i had to file a fraud report, etc. the seller still claims it was working and that i broke it. i used to work at eBay, in the fraud dept, which i told the seller... complete idiot. although he did send me the complete guage cluster.

so yesterday, eBay told me that the check is in the mail, and i decided i could open the guage and see what was going on. it was immediately evident that someone had already pried the brass ring off of the guage previously. upon opening the thing, it was obvious that part of the assembly that drives the odometer was simply missing... no way the guy tested it.

so, i took my own guage out, which i should have done in the first place, opened it up... and the gears all all good, just one of them had slid down the post about a centimeter. i moved it back, put a spot of glue on both sides of the gear and put it back in. works like a charm.

i put the tach in the center, skewed so that red line is more or less up, the speedometer on the right, also skewed sot that 70MPH is more or less horizontal to the left. i can already tell my car is faster with the tach in the center and the odometer working

[jimbilly]

Too bad about the ripoff, but good job on the fix! I should have tried to fix mine myself, but my fuel guage was acting funky too. -next time! I wonder if VDO uses a lot of common parts? my friends Audi had the 'slid gear' as well, and I've got a spare vdo cluster out of an early '80s Scirocco that may be useful for parts someday.

[Brian J]

Mine has an intermittent clicking sound. Starts around 30-35 mph and quits over 80mph. Could this also be gear slippage?

[nynor]

i think the clicking is cause by one of the gears not being in alignment. in fact, just before the odometer failed, it started clicking.

[Brian J]

How difficult was it to remove the speedometer and fix the gears? Any special tools or suggestions?

[nynor]

the hardest part is getting it all back in. what year is your 944?