Odometer quit, 89 100 - lessons learned

[Dave C]

Hi George,
I don't doubt what you say.  But it's entirely possible that someone had
been inside your speedometer before ... either to repair it or to roll back
the mileage.  Needle replacement with glue rather than heat would be a safer
option... Too much heat apparently ruined one of my speedometers.  I guess
if you are in the business of repairing or tampering with odometers
experience would rule.  Rolled back odometers may not be as rare as one
might hope.
- -
Dave C.


George wrote...
"I pried two off from instrument clusters from a 90 200, so it's not
impossible.  One was a lot harder to get off than the other, but I didn't
use any heat to do it.  Just a conflicting opinion...

Other than that, the other info seems correct.  My previous 89 80 had the
same problem, I just didn't care about the mileage shown, so I never fixed
the odo.

I think the plastic in the gear may be influenced by the ambient heat level
in your area, the replacement cluster I received (and extracted the gear
from) was from Minnesota, and the plastic had an entirely different shade
than the plastic on the broken gear, as if the broken one had been heated
too much over a long period of time which lead to it's eventual failure.

George Selby "