[V8] V8 Maiden Voyage

[Dave Saad]

I stand corrected...

actually, I sit corrected, but you all get the idea...


Sounds like we have a winning answer though.

Dave


On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Dave Head wrote:

> 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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