[Vwdiesel] Speedometer Cable Gear Question

Roger Brown r.c.brown at ieee.org
Tue Jun 28 11:05:58 EDT 2005


Chuck Carnohan wrote:
> Thanks Svend.  I have a handful of gears also but they are all the white
> nylon w/16 teeth.  So you think that it is in the speedo head eh?  I
> have not experienced a speedometer getting so out of whack.  The needle
> moves smoothly.... I was trying to avoid having to take a speedo apart
> and fix a broken gear-  I may yet have another complete cluster to try
> before I resort to gauge repair!  I'll try to find the time to search
> archives- thanks for the tip as to topic.  You Hagar surely do not
> suffer from Alzheimer's!  I wish my memory was as good as yours!

The different drive gears are for the 3 different final drive ratios available:

Ratio	P/N		Color
-----------------------------
3.6	171 957 821 B	RED
3.9	171 957 821 A	WHITE
4.25	??? ??? ??? ?	GREEN

That said, none of them will make a 2:1 correction, more like +/- 10%.

I'll be swapping a white gear for a red one when I regear my FN transaxle from 3.89 to 3.67.

-- 
    Roger



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