[Vwdiesel] trip odometer

[peter blake]

Doug,
How thick does the shim have to be?  Maybe you could use some nylon washers and split them
and force them onto the shaft?
Peter
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On Sat, 2/15/14, Doug <db53248 at windstream.net> wrote:

 Subject: [Vwdiesel] trip odometer
 To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
 Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014, 10:49 AM
 
 I have the 81 Caddy instrument
 cluster out and found that the glue on 
 the odometer drive gear had turned to powder and the gear
 was spinning 
 freely on the shaft.
 My trip odometer hasn't worked for a long time. The gear
 between the 
 odometer and the trip odometer seems OK but there seems to
 be a little 
 side-to-side play in the gears of the trip odometer. The
 trip odometer 
 seems to engage better when the gears are pushed to the side
 where the 
 drive gear is from the odometer. Is there a way to put a
 shim in the 
 side away from the drive gear to hold the trip odometer in
 closer 
 contact with the drive gear? I'd like to avoid removing the
 odometer or 
 the trip odometer from the plastic mounts that they are in.
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