> So I extracted the gauge
> workings from the case and sprayed them liberally with silicone lubricant
> (some sort of WD-40 like stuff). SO the odometer is moving very smoothly
> now. However what is also happening is that the needle is not
> coming back to
> zero when stopped and is not rising above 35 mph when on the highway.
> Vigorous tapping on the gauge glass will bring it to 10 mph when stopped,
> and reversing will drag it to zero, but that's it.
>
> Do I have some hope that the works will just dry out and free up,
> or should
> I be doing something to remove the silicone and lubricate the need bearing
> another way?
Haven't seen any replies to this ... IMO you're going to have to disassemble
it. The needle bearing should have no lubricant ... even if the silicone
ever did dry out, the gum left behind would still cause drag and wildly
inaccurate readings.
Check out
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rhodes/speedo.html
Randall
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