I took dash all apart today after a 68mph speeding ticket in a 55mph zone(my speedo is not accurate).I lubed up cable where chuck is to go into odemeter and found a way to squash some grease into odometer. It works a bit better but there is still something sticking. Is the cable at the tranny end a straight gear? Now every time speedometer finds a different place to stick there is a strong plastic type odor(The grease did loosen something....).

Careful with that - sometimes the seal on the tranny end of the cable will fail and suck grease into the tach head - that will cause the needle to go berserk and fly around to 70 MPH when you are going 10.

 

I think it would be easiest to replace the cluster - you may have some corrosion in the tach. But since you don't seem like the type to like "easy", try dissasembling the unit and cleaning the tach. Maybe use some carefully applied dielictric grease for the turny bits inside.

 

I would just get another cluster - but then they are very, very common out here in the west

 

*edit* I just saw you have a loyale - I happen to have a 90 or 91 loyale clouster in the garage - it's from a 4WD push button 5 speed, so if you have an Auto it may not have the gear indicators - not sure. Anyway - I'm not even sure why I brought it home other than it was free from my co-workers wrecked loyale. I would part with it for the low price of $10 plus shipping. (need the motivation to get it to the post office - beer on the way home! )

 

GD

hey thanks, sounds like a deal. Are thier laws for speedo change? I don't know anything about it. Will wait out for grease to act a bit longer, when speedo decides to be fluid movement it is working quite well.I even let oil go down the cable as I tinkered with cluster for awhile.

Will check back with you if it does not work and another local source won't sell what I need. I cant find anything at local junk yards, very strange.:cool:

Well - out here in oregon you have to do an "odometer disclosure" when you register any vehicle under 10 years old, but after 10 years they don't care anymore. So I think you'll be ok. Check your local laws of course. At any rate, make up a reciept from "Bills Hillbilly Tractor Mechanics" (specialzing in foreign autos of course ), and say it was replaced by these guys somewhere in Canada durring a road trip.

 

I wouldn't think it would be that hard to roll the odometer back to the same milage yours is at or less. I rolled the 1 back to a 0 in the cluster I put in my wagon just for laughs (it's lifted and beat to smack besides being over 20 years old, so no worries). But my cluster reads 36k miles now. Hehe.

 

GD

I think what I did has a good go..just took it out on quick errand. Turned on heat, flew onto the highway without a speedo bounce.It surprised me how quick it gets to 70 on a speedo that works! No wonder I got a speeding ticket climbing a rather steep hill.I always thought it had pretty good take off....now I can verify it besides the engine noise and sound of tires grabbing.