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Speedo
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:05 pm
by swapped
My speedo works when it's out of the car, with an allen key turning the drive, and my speedo cable turns when it's not connected to the speedo, but I don't get any indication of speed when I'm driving!
I'm guessing the cable drive is turning inside the speedo without touching the sides - is this repairable? - either by me or via a specialist speedo-repairer service somewhere out there?
Failing that, and as it's a KPH unit anyway, are any other speedos interchangeable?
Carl
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:40 pm
by roger
Couple of points here - MPH speedos appear from time to time on Ebay, and possibly some DDKers may have one lurking about in their garages.
I had a similar problem with the speedo not working and found that the cable hadn't been completely tightened up at the back of the speedo.
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:53 pm
by swapped
Thank for the reply, Roger.
So are 914 speedos unique?
How about 911/924/944/VW units?
'Feels like I'll be placing a wanted advert sometime...
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:22 pm
by davidppp
Hello there.
Does the cable inner turn when you are driving?
A very common problem is a broken drive gear at the gearbox.
Kind regards
David
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:03 pm
by roger
Carl
I'd quite forgotten that I had a spare MPH speedo lurking in my garage! It appears OK - your welcome to it and if it is OK, send me a tenner.
Regards
Roger
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:07 pm
by swapped
Roger, I've never met you, but I think I may be in love.
I'm PMing you right now.
Carl
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:15 pm
by roger
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:19 pm
by swapped
davidppp wrote:Hello there.
Does the cable inner turn when you are driving?
A very common problem is a broken drive gear at the gearbox.
Kind regards
David
Yes, it turns very strongly, and the cable and angle drive both look reasonably new to me, too - but please keep the ideas coming!
Carl
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:21 pm
by swapped
swapped wrote:
I'm PMing you right now.
Now that I re-read this, it seems ruder than I originally intended.
Still, if it gets me a speedo...
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:56 pm
by swapped
I drove to work in the 914 this morning (roof on - it wasn't quite warm enough), so that I could fit and try the MPH unit Roger sent me at lunch time.
...and it's working!
Brilliant.
It's amazing how much more accelerative (?) the car feels with a speedo needle to watch climbing! - I think I've been pretty good at 'feeling' my speed at 30 and 40 mph, but what I've been treeting as 60 was closer to 70, and I've been skimming along at 4000 revs in 5th, thinking it was 75ish, but the speedo says it's closer to 90!
I think I'll charge the sat-nav up and take it for a drive to calibrate.
Thank you very much, Roger - cheque on it's way to you.
Carl
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:06 pm
by roger
Great stuff Carl - glad its OK (personally I like tuned speedos
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:10 pm
by impmad2000
swapped wrote:I drove to work in the 914 this morning (roof on - it wasn't quite warm enough
Carl
Er ? Was it raining ? No - Then it WAS Roof off weather !
Tim
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:25 pm
by swapped
impmad2000 wrote:swapped wrote:I drove to work in the 914 this morning (roof on - it wasn't quite warm enough
Carl
Er ? Was it raining ? No - Then it WAS Roof off weather !
Tim
I knew I'd get someone commenting like that
As it happens, it was raining as I showered and ate breakfast (two separate jobs there, one after the other), and I walked onto the drive with the keys to the Saab in my hand, looked at the standing water on the cars and at the (blueish, but cloudy) sky, and went back into the kitchen to grab Roger's speedo and swap ignition keys. I had to choose between 'roofless' and 'late-for-work', so I chose roof-on, in on time, and I'll go home topless
Some of my favourite memories of my motor-cycling days are from journeys where snow had fallen and I was riding on compacted snow under blue skies, home from my girlfriends (now wife) parents house - If weather conditions are right this winter, you can bet I'll be out there with my thinsulate gloves and wooly hat on, but my roof off
Carl
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:25 pm
by swapped
Oops! Double post.
Carl
Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:19 pm
by roger
Carl said
Some of my favourite memories of my motor-cycling days are from journeys where snow had fallen and I was riding on compacted snow under blue skies, home from my girlfriends (now wife) parents house - If weather conditions are right this winter, you can bet I'll be out there with my thinsulate gloves and wooly hat on, but my roof off
I can almost here the violins playing......
