[Beau]

Hmmm, just read Clark's garage instructions for repair/replacing the plastic gear for the odometer, and I think I might let my shady Porsche repairman do that, and damn the costs. I'm pretty sure I'd bugger it up if I had to disassemble/repair/resassemble it myself, not to mention that circuit ribbon looks mighty fragile.

Like Eldorado's quote from Socal says, "Never break more than you fix!" I know my limitations.

At least now I know what's wrong, and if I buy the worm gear and he tries to charge me more for extra parts (ie, which means HE messed up), I can call shennanigans. I don't mind paying well for labor, but I'm pretty sure I paid for his mistakes on my previously mentioned ignition coil dilemma, because when I got the car back, it had a different distributor cap, some no-name brand, when I had had a Bosch installed three days prior (by a different mechanic) to bringing it to him. No mention of a distributor cap was on the bill, nor labor on that part.