[V8] V8 Maiden Voyage

[Dave Head]

Not in a V8. The speedo and odo have seperate 'receiver motors'. The 
odometer motor has a gearset of soft, flexible gears that drive the 
odometer and trip meter. The large gear in the set ends up shredding 
about 3 teeth, and that's in, neither work any mo...

Dave Saad wrote:
> If you lose ALL of speedo/odo/trip odo/MPG display/CC head speed  
> display, you most likely have a bad speed sender in the transmission,  
> or a wire/connector problem to it.  Your symptom does not make sense  
> though.  The sender would have to be working for the speedo to work,  
> and the main odo is mechanically tied to the speedometer and so  
> highly unlikely to fail. If you only lost the trip odo, that is  
> fairly easy to explain by it not being fully reset - some mechanical  
> part got hung up and you fixed it with the reset button.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Jun 16, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Roger Woodbury wrote:
> 
>> Great trip today.  First long distance trip since the timing belt  
>> service
>> was completed.  It was a fairly good mix of two lane and divided  
>> highway and
>> according to the car's computer, the overall average was around  
>> 24.5 miles
>> per gallon.  Speed was limited to around sixty for the most part  
>> although
>> traffic in closer to Portland was moving quite a lot faster.
>>
>> I had forgotten two things about the V8. First of all, I had  
>> forgotten how
>> nice it is to travel in the car, with ample power on hand all the  
>> time, and
>> secondly, how smooth the power is as it comes on.
>>
>> It reminds me that I must get the cruise control operating because  
>> the car
>> will roll faster and faster so easily that it could be easy to lose my
>> license.
>>
>> One strange thing happened though.  I suddenly lost my trip  
>> odometer and my
>> main odometer.  They just stopped working without fanfare or  
>> excitement.  I
>> just suddenly noticed that I was still looking at 276 miles  
>> accumulated on
>> the tank of fuel, and I knew that I had been well above 300 at that  
>> point.
>> I reset the trip meter and it zeroed, and started to run again, and  
>> then
>> stopped at about 1.5 miles.  There is sits.
>>
>> Comments about this?  I suspect this is potentially related to the  
>> cruise
>> control issue via a power supply of some sort.  The manual that I  
>> have in
>> the computer doesn't speak specifically about how the odo/trip meter
>> actually work.  Any input will be gratefully received.
>>
>> Otherwise the car appears to be 100%.
>>
>> Great to have a V8 again!
>>
>> Roger
>>
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