DeTomaso Mailing List: March 1997, Message #122
     



From: brockctella@juno.com (Brock C Tella)

Subject: Re: Shrieking Speedo

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 14:28:36 PST



I had the same problem. I unscrewed the fitting where the cable goes into

the speedo and lubed it. Works great.

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997 07:16:53 -0500 (EST) Andy Poling <andy@realbig.com>

writes:

>My Pantera's speedometer is failing in a particularly obnoxious

>manner.

>

>I was traveling at (ahem) slightly above the speed limit on a back

>road when

>out of nowhere comes this shrieking siren.  When it started, it

>sounded like

>a State Trooper cruiser had just landed in the seat next to me.  I

>almost

>had brown trousers.  A second later I started thinking that some

>high pressure hose had split.

>

>After a few moments' panic, I finally realized it was the speedometer.

> It

>was *shrieking* - loud enough that when it started I nearly jumped out

>of my

>skin.

>

>Now it comes and goes, and it has developed a ticking sound in

>between.

>When the shrieking fades, it turns more into a sound of plastic gears

>grinding, and then finally subsides almost completely. And when it's

>happening the speedo needle looks like a scene from the X-Files.

>

>Is this the typical failure mode for the speedo?

>

>This is already a replacement speedo (installed by a former owner), so

>I

>find myself wondering how long the next one might last.  Are there any

>alternative speedo's I can install instead?

>

>-Andy

>

>72 Pantera: power             91 Miata: quickness              96 A4Q:

>traction

>                            84 RZ350: all the above

>

>

>

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