Re: Speedo Drive

[jim schroeder <cretin@xxxxxxx>]

Whoa Dude!
Do you, like, have every post ever listed stored somewhere?? I sent that out in
March, fixed by the next week. Funny, I just posted that 20 seconds ago. Are you
keeping these also?
Thanks for everything you do for us Eric,
                                                        Jim

Eric Sheley wrote:

> At 11:19 AM 08/12/1999 -0600, Hoppler, Harl wrote:
>  >Yes, the speedo is electric, but the device on the hub is still a mechanical
>  >analog to digital
>  >converter, rather than a gear device that operates the old style speedo
>  >that's driven through a
>  >cable. The piece that rotates on the wheel spacer and interfaces with the
>  >wheel froze.
>
> I knew I saw this problem before.
>
>  >Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:04:00 -0800
>  >From: jim schroeder <cretin@xxxxxxx>
>  >Hey folks,
>  >My speedo transducer froze up at 700 mi. took it in and we ripped everything
>  >apart to ck. elec. connections to no avail, then removed the front wheel and
>  >speedo unit, sure enough it had froze up and bent the tabs back on the drive
>  >washer!! Don't know if this is something we can all look fwd. to or not?!?
>
> This is the only other one that I have heard of and his happened so early
> that  there were not even any service manuals available for the dealer to
> figure out what was wrong. He ended up getting a new drive unit about 900
> miles later and I have not heard that he has had any further problems.
>
> - Eric
>
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