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hmmm how do I start the tale of "The speedo"


Well ok here I go.... I installed the speedo on Monday and immediatly took it for a drive where upon I immediatly noticed I had all the little bulbs in the wrong places and worse yet my fuel gauge wasn't working and my blinkers froze up.

Then suddenly my speedo starting making those Oh so refined noises of a garbage disposal digesting pea gravel and forks.

So out comes the speedo and I glumly walk away from it to try again another day. Well today was that day. I dissasembled it completly and could feel no slack or other issues to warrant such noisy behavior but just to be certain I degreased all the little gears and bevels then liberaly greased them up with some graphite infused axel grease.

I then tested the tickler with a volt meter and it checked out and so did the fuel gauge itself. I can make it read full by hot wiring it. So I must have F'd something else up in the process... sigh

Now my high beam idicator lamp won't work, the blinkers don't blink and my horn has gone awol. I think I may have accidently broken a ground wire. I suck at reading schematics so I'm home Don_and_Herbie can get his butt over here and help me out.

The good news is that the speedo is working great. I even drove past one of those lil radar posts that show your speed. I drove past at different speeds to from 25 - 45 mph and it is reading slow by about 2mph which makes sense since I have smaller tires then stock.

The speedo is super smooth now and makes Zero noise. I have never driven an old bug where the speedo didn't jump around. Not even Oscar This was a first for me. I guess I did something right today after all.