[Vwdiesel] ATTEN/ Shalyn

[Erik Lane]

Yes, fairly easy to swap that out. Just takes a little bit of patience and
care in dealing with the circuit board/foil thing. Every time I've had one
go bad, it's a little gear that's either out of place or broken - always
the same gear. It's easy to fix. I've replaced it with a spare gear once,
but usually I drill the hole out a little bit to take care of the cracked
gear - it's an interference fit and gets pushed open. Then I'll super glue
it back together and on the shaft so it won't slide around.

I can't EVER push the reset button for the trip meter while the car is in
motion, or the gear gets pushed out of place and I have to disassemble
everything. Maybe on mine it needs a bit of sanding on the shaft to give
the glue something to hold onto and I should glue it again. For now I just
know to never touch the button if I'm moving at all and it's worked well
for 100k plus.

Good luck!


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Shalyn Shourds <sshourds at flash.net> wrote:

> Wow.  You were on eBay faster than I was.  I was trying to check it on my
> phone during dinner.  Never easy.
>
>
> The guy at the speedometer shop was good enough to send me pictures.  I
> thinkI can stick it back together.  Near as I can tell, the board is
> generally intact, but the fittings on the connectors self-disassembled.  My
> thought at the moment is to have them go ahead and work up the
> speedometer/odometer unit.  I'm assuming here that that subunit is fairly
> easily swapped out between clusters.  That way I'll have aknown good
> odometer at least.  Problem with 30 year old plastic parts is that they all
> break about the same time, albeit a little sooner here in the Texas heat.
> If the board is kaput, I'll have to go ahead and replace the cluster, again
> assuming I can put my odometer/speedometer in it.
>
>
> I appreciate all the ideas and resources.  I was kind of sick last night
> and was dead asleep when the shop called this morning so my confused
> response was to proceed straight to panic.  Now that I know I have options,
> I can skip to the next step, depression at all the money and effort I'm in
> for.  But, it's a step ahead :)
>
> -Shalyn
>
>
>
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