Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:15:33 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Odometer not working. Will 1984 unit work in 1990?
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Same here. Took it out, took it apart. Did some repairs. Built some
little finger goodies to hold things in place. Staked the gears to the
shaft. Used super glue. Ultimately nothing worked. Each attempt failed.
After the fourth try, I managed to break the needle in half. Really
ticked me off. I broke down and bought a new one from Camelback. I have
been happy with it ever since. But I am judicious about setting the
odometer ONLY when the vehicle is not moving.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Kimmons Anthony wrote:
> I went through that same issue with mine about 4 years ago. Fixed it.
> It worked for awhile (a few days...), then quit on me again.
>
> Anyone have a permanent fix for this issue?
> Seems like I've seen one of the vendor pages saying that they will
> fix it for you for a price, but I can't remember which one it was.
>
> Either of you have a link to the archive with a fix by chance?
> I'd like to have another go with it.
> thanks.
> Tony
> 87 GL 7 passenger
>
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2006, at 4:57 PM, John Bange wrote:
>
>> On 8/1/06, J S <jdshoes@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 1990 Vanagon GL
>>>
>>> After reading a few notes files, I tried the easy fix. I removed the
>>> instrument cluster, removed the speedometer/odometer from the
>>> cluster,
>>> and noted the shaft had just fallen out of the end of its groove. I
>>> pushed it back in and shifted the lugs (?) over slightly. As I
>>> expected, it worked for .5 of a mile.
>>
>> Yeah, mine did the same thing. I bet the odo drive gear is the
>> metal kind.
>>
>>>
>>> I have an old speedometer/odometer from my 1984 Wolfsburg.
>>>
>>> Question: Will this work in the 1990 van? The unit size looks the
>>> same, however, where the speedometer cable attaches, it looks
>>> slightly
>>> different from what I recall when I had the 1990 part out.
>>
>> I happen to have a pile of Early speedometers (I was the idiot who
>> bought those six old-style instrument clusters on eBay for $60-- what
>> can I say, I am clearly ill) and a few Late ones as well right here in
>> front of me. Other than the fact that the Early model is cast metal
>> and the Late one is plastic, it appears to me that the attachment
>> points are identical. In theory you could even pull out the little
>> L-shaped circuit board for the Dynamic Oil Pressure System and just
>> kinda tape it to the exterior of the Early style speedo, plugged into
>> the blue ribbon cable.
>>
>> --
>> John Bange
>> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>>
>
>
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