RE: STOP! Re: odometer not odometering either

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

... IME, you can repair the odo without even removing the faceplate at all.
This would be on the ur-q/older 4k, so YMMV.  In any event you will very
likely find that if you allow the speedo needle to pass the stop pin it will
rest at a location where there is a line in the silkscreen of the speedo
face.  How do you think that the "professionals" do it?  If you can't seem
to find a mark on your speedo face you can put a piece of masking tape on
there and mark it for yourself.  Just reinstall the needle in the same
position and you'll be good to go.  

For those who are feint at heart and live in the San Francisco Bay area
there os another place to have the work done called Palo Alto Speedometer.
I took the speedo from the ur-q there the first time it failed and they did
a great job.  Once it failed again I figured that $65+ was a bit too much to
pay for a temporary fix.  

HTH!
Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

> -----Original Message-----
> WAIT!
> 
> Of course this can be done, but DON'T DO IT!  There is a rotary spring
> preload on the needle that keeps it resting against the stop 
> pin.  If you
> take the needle off to fix the shaft, then, you have no idea how much
> preload to put on the shaft when you put the needle back on.  
> So, the end
> result is that your odometer works, but your speedo has a significant
> error.  I have done this before, and it is no fun.  There are ways of
> trying to calibrate this yourself, but I assure you it's just 
> not worth it...
> 
> Leave it to the professionals.
> 
> I used "Overseas Speedometer" in austin, tx.  
> www.speedometer.com  Cost is
> about $65, but it is totally worth the two hours you would 
> spend monkeying
> with it, only to scratch the face plate, end up with your 
> speedo being 17.5
> mph off, and then, have your odo repair fail again after 
> about 2 weeks.
> (this has happened to me, and I'm pretty good at instrument repair).
> 
> Matthew Caprio
> 
> 
> >Does anyone know how to remove the needle (so I can take 
> >the face plate off) w/o rendering the spedo usless?  I looked in the 
>