[FC] FC speedometer

[Keith Hammett]

Lew just did mine several months ago and it is working great.  Since you mention that when you plug the cable in it stops, this makes me think it might be a bad cable or a bad gear in the transmission.

Give Lew a call I bet he can help.

Keith Hammett



----- Original Message ----
From: Dennis PLEAU <ddpleau at msn.com>
To: Fred Darvill <finstall at hotmail.com>; corvanatics at corvair.org
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:38:25 PM
Subject: Re: [FC] FC speedometer

Did Lew offer any insight?  He's really knowledgeable and may have seen this issue before.

dp



> From: finstall at hotmail.com
> To: corvanatics at corvair.org
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:25:46 -0700
> Subject: [FC] FC speedometer
> 
> 
> Here's the story:  I bought a rampside with a broken speedometer cable.  When I went to change the cable I found that the reason it broke was the speedometer was frozen up.  I sent the speedometer to Lew Rischel who did a great job of cleaning and freeing up the unit.  But when installed it doesn't work.  As soon as I remove it from the cable housing it works again with a finger spin.  I have checked the gear in the tranny-fine.  The speedometer works fine with a finger spin until installed-then is either does nothing or goes up to 15-25 mhp and hangs, then doesn't return to zero when I stop.  Remove it again-it tests fine with a finger spin.  I have determined that as soon as the cable is inserted in the speedometer it just quits, and that is not even threading on the cable, all I have to do is insert the cable and it quits like the drive disconnects somehow.  Anybody have an idea?  I put a backup unit in the guage housing and it works
 fine.  Since I paid a good sum for r
ep
>  airs I would like to use the freshly rebuilt one from Lew.  Fred Darvill
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