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• Re: Part 2 Handling differences between 87' Camper/Van
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Johnson
  Sat, 03 May 1997 13:13:25 -0700
  ...That way you don't mess with the rpm thing or your speedometer > accuracy for that matter. Light Truck/RV tire would have no...
• Re: Survey-- Your Favorite Vanagon Accessories That You Have Added
  Historical mailing list - Paul M. Hillbish
  Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:20:11 EST
  ...Celestial throw rug Blanket over the back seat Comforter on the back mattress Sword for a speedometer needle. Soon to have celestial curtains. Not...
• Broken Odometer and trip meter
  Historical mailing list - Walter Evens
  Sun, 10 Feb 2002 09:11:34 -0800
  ...I checked the archives and some one had sent theirs to Overseas Speedometer for repair. Any one know what they charge? Also, my tach...
• Re: grinding speedo
  Historical mailing list - Richard A. Jones
  Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:18:21 -0700
  ...I talked with a guy at Palo Alto Speedometer who said the cable stretches and puts pressure on the speedo. The speedo can be...
• Re: speedo vs. tach mounts..brittle housing plastic
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:44:33 EDT
  ...the speedo cable puts a little too much pressure on the > speedometer. > the cluster housing tach mounts break too, not as common as the...
• Re: Odometer/Speedometer OoC
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:22:01 -0700
  ...one >> of three new problems (odometer, speedometer, trip meter): "Then >> there's the >> matter of getting the speedometer needle back in the right >> position...
• Got Shifter Bushings?
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:45:27 -0400
  ...251957809J- Syncro Speedometer Drive Cable- $125 4. 251609701D- Syncro Rear Brake Cable (left)- $75 5. 251609702- Syncro Rear Brake Cable (right)- $75 6. 094409181B...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Eric Nettles
  Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:06:43 -0400
  ...My speedometer needs some rebuilding or something... I have taken it apart, pushed the row of gears back into line again, but every time...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Max Wellhouse
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:36:18 -0500
  ...DM&FS At 07:11 PM 9/6/2004, Wade Yorke wrote: >You may not actually be going as fast as your speedometer indicates...
• Re: odometer repairs
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:25:41 -0700
  ...I > believe.....been in Portland since the '50's > > http://www.speedometerservice.net/ > > On 8/3/07, Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@gmail.com> wrote...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Chris DeLong
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 03:58:51 +0000
  ...Vanagon not as fast as you think > > >You may not actually be going as fast as your speedometer indicates >since the Vanagon speedometer is...
• RE: "DRY" DOOR LOCKS
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 13:15:29 GMT
  ...I have a good friend who does locks and speedometers. He says that you should NEVER EVER use graphite on a speedometer cable. Apparently...
• Re: Clear title??? exportation
  Historical mailing list - Pascal Giasson
  Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:24:53 -0500
  ...I lent my Subie to a friend last week and he told me that my speedometer was not working, I said it worked that...
• Re: 82 odometer/tripmeter
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Sat, 9 Jun 2001 23:28:26 -0600
  ...The speedometer works >fine. Are these possible to repair? Has anyone on list been able to fix >these before? If not, can the mileage...
• Re: Question on failing speedo but odmeter still works
  Historical mailing list - Matthew
  Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:06:04 -0800
  Palo Alto Speedometer is a great place. I worked a few block from them (www.pas.com???) and they always had nice rigs in...
• Re: Wacky speedo...
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:45:41 -0400
  ...reset while moving will cause > the odometer to fail while the speedometer continues to work. I'm still not convinced this has anything to...
• Re: light emitting diodes
  Historical mailing list - P. Stanhope
  Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:24:36 -0800
  I installed one medium brightness LED into my Speedometer and one into the quartz clock/gas guage, right where the old bulbs went. It...
• jb welding speedometer mounts
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Palmer
  Sun, 3 Apr 2005 12:35:35 -0500
  Today's the big day, I'm JB Welding new mounts for my speedo. From reading through the archives it sounds like my best...
• Re: Soeedo repair
  Historical mailing list - thewestyman
  Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:53:21 +0100
  ...Soeedo repair Hello all; My speedometer needle is bouncing around and I have a clicking noise. I lubed it up with a non-petroleum...
• Re: GPS to check Speedo
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:25:17 -0700
  Be careful before you rely on your GPS to check your speedometer. Depending on the make and model of GPS, you may be getting...
• Re: speedo/tach differences between '84-'86????????
  Historical mailing list - walt spak
  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 19:39:14 -0500
  ...I have however, observed at least 3 different speedometers in 84's. Two of them have shift points marked but at different speeds. I...
• Re: trip odometer myth
  Historical mailing list - ian Butler
  Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:13:41 -0400
  ...The speedometer/odometer in my Vanagon have never worked. Repairing the speedometer output on the front differential seems to be a mystery of the...
• Re: Small Problem
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 14 Dec 1995 20:45:03 -0800 (PST)
  And sherwin@gnn.com thus wrote: > > Noisy speedometer cable, is there a way to lubricate it or must I > replace it? I had this...
• Re: WTB: Plastic speedo cluster holder
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:41:14 -0800
  >The plastic tabs that the screws go thru to secure my speedometer / tach >cluster are now all broken. Does anyone have one for sale...
• Re: Warning!!! Check Your Speedometer - What a Sad, Sad Example
  Historical mailing list - Various
  Mon, 13 May 2002 00:45:52 -0300
  Yep, Metric is awfully complicated for ten digit beings... It's just Sooooo intuitive to realise that 1760 yards, 5280 feet, 63360 inches and...
• Re: Instrument Pod Parts Needed
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Oxroad
  Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:31:33 EST
  ...the plastic piece of the instrument pod that fits between the > Speedometer and the Tach cluster on a late model I replaced mine a...
• Re: does anybody have the address of the speedo repair shop in texas ?
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:29:20 -0700
  http://www.speedometer.com/ Not too hard to remember. :-) Malcolm --- ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET> wrote: > I have lost the name and address of...
• bouncing speedo
  Historical mailing list - Richards, Andrew
  Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:59:24 -0800
  All, Occassionally, my speedometer needle likes to bounce. It's much worse at slow speeds and gradually levels out as I reach high speed...
• Re: GPS speed accuracy
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Wed, 8 May 2013 16:48:42 -0400
  ...speed accuracy (KMM28238403I15977L0KM) >>> >>> >>> >>> Dear Todd Last, >>> >>> >>> >>> Thank you for contacting Garmin International. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> The speedometer on your device may display a different speed than the...
• Re: Speedometer markings
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Mon, 12 May 97 23:38:50 CDT
  ...was wondering if anyone knew what the dot markings on the speedometer >mean. This is in an 83 WB. There are dots at certain...
• sticky speedometer...
  Historical mailing list - Neil Wasbrikoff
  Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:49:42 -0500
  Hi Folks, The speedometer on my 1987 Westy has been sticking as of late. It seems to be related to temperature too. It's...
• Re: Speedometer
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Wed, 12 Jul 2017 23:31:14 -0600
  Only See it via Jeffs Reply ~ ORR ~ DeanB On 12 Jul , 2017, at 11:25 PM, Jeff Palmer wrote: > I have been seeing your...
• Question about removing syncro speedo drive gear
  Historical mailing list - Ken Wilford
  Fri, 7 May 2010 12:34:10 -0400
  Dear List, I need some advice on removing the drive gear for the speedometer from the front differential of a Vanagon syncro. If you...
• Re: RESULTS - Tire Survey
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:49:54 -0500 (EST)
  ...I do know that speedometer specialty shops can provide gear ratio changes that allow a wide variety of tires to produce accurate odometer readings...
• Re: Front Wheels clicking noise
  Historical mailing list - Neal Hansen
  Sat, 18 May 2002 15:36:35 -0700
  I'd check the speedometer cable first. Neal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 07:00:51 -0700 From: s w <smorewhisky@YAHOO.COM> Subject...
• Re: KMH / MPH speedometer face available?
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:59:29 -0700
  the jetta speedo goes to 11. Oh i mean 120. the vanagon is only 100 (or something, but less that 120 for sure!) So...
• Re: Vanagon not as fast as you think
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:01:57 -0700
  At 08:58 PM 9/6/2004, Chris DeLong wrote: >Anyone have the link from the NTSA about precalibrating speedometers to read >higher than...
• Re: Speedometer...cable breaks...
  Historical mailing list - A. Hurley
  Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:27:20 -0400
  just fifteen minutes after I drive away with new tires. ? Can I just get one from the cool junkyard I found in Seattle? I...
• Re: speedo cable question
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Thu, 3 Apr 2008 15:03:44 -0700
  ...Does > that look like about the threads on the speedometer cable? I think the TP > on > the speedometer is much finer than 1.5...
• Re: Crazy idea?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:01:08 -0700
  ...On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Al Knoll <anasasi@gmail.com> wrote: > Always wondered why extreme speedometer accuracy is such a...
• Re: Tire Question (not the dreaded tire thread at all)
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:53:21 +0000
  ...Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:05:23 -0500 > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > Vanagon speedometers can often be optomisitc anyway. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> True They can be optomistic but I found mine...
• Re: Crazy idea?
  Historical mailing list - Stacy Schneider
  Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:33:54 -0700
  Any good Speedometer shop has these units, Our friends at GW even sell one. While your idea is original, you'd spend a lot...
• Re: speedometer no move
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:34:16 -0500
  ...I am on a mission to fix everything >on at least one of my buses. >So I have the speedometer out. I used a...
• Re: Speedometer Weirdness
  Historical mailing list - Geo & Kathleen Hahn
  Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:05:46 -0700
  ...no speed being indicated, there is definitely something wrong with the speedometer itself. In that case, there is usually dirt and/or corrosion that...
• Re: Speedo needle sits still sometimes
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:25:36 -0800
  ...www.overseas-speedometer.com)" > > I'm not trying Scott's "just lube
• Re: instrument panel lights
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 18 Jul 1994 11:46:43 -0500 (CDT)
  On Mon, 18 Jul 1994, Will Self wrote: > > In my '84 Vanagon the lights behind the speedometer and heating > controls don't work. The...
• Re: Highest mileage?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 21 Nov 1995 13:32:42 -0800
  ...Of course, everything has been replaced, including the speedometer, one new short block, three top-end rebuilds, and a tranny swap w/ new CVs...
• Will driving w/o my instrument cluster hurt anything?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Elfelt
  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:34:38 -0400
  ...Odometer/Speedometer come and go together My thought is to drive without the instrument cluster to see if the speedo cable thingie goes around...
• Re: dont pusy our trip meter while driving!
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:49:10 EST
  ...is that i've broken 2 this way, and have sold plenty of speedometers to people who did the same thing.. chris [text/html]
• Re: THE odometer fix?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Shane
  Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:12:56 -0400
  Frank Wrote (about the ODO breaking) >Yes, definite success! I finally took it into a local VDO speedometer >repair shop in El Monte, CA...
• Re: Wiring tach triggered oil pressure alarm - ?? - help
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:42:26 -0400
  ...your > contacts on the foil circuit on the back of your speedometer & cluster. A pencil eraser works pretty well for contact cleaning, too, and...
• Re: Noisy speedo
  Historical mailing list - Dick Wong
  Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:11:39 -0800
  ...Noisy speedo The real problem is that the rotating parts in the speedometer have worn and the noise if from the inner hub chattering...
• Speedometer Spiffing
  Historical mailing list - Thom Fitzpatrick
  Sat, 7 Jan 1995 10:09:02 -0800 (PST)
  ...of each - 1" x 50"! I have enough for about 30 speedometers! Thom -- > I may be dumb, but I'm not _stupid_! ............................................................................ : Thom Fitzpatrick...
• Re: After Market Cruise?
  Historical mailing list - Jaap Nauta
  Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:01:01 +0200
  ...I started with the standard speedsensor, but replaced it later on with a home-made sensor on the speedometer. I think you can use...
• odometer update
  Historical mailing list - Linda Bartnik
  Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:22:59 -0400
  ...I wonder how many VDO speedometers use this same gear, and even better, how many old VDO speedometers use a gear of the same...
• Re: Crazy idea?
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:57:15 -0700
  Other than the "W" gears that drive the odometer, what is different about the "Diesel" speedometer? The rotation of the input shaft is magnetically...
• Re: Dash Cluster Needed, '86+
  Historical mailing list - Greg Potts
  Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:22:15 -0400
  ...Pretty > much every GPS program has a speedometer/heading/trip computer > feature these days. > > Happy Trails, > > Greg Potts > Toronto, Ontario Canada > 197x Westfakia "Bob...
• Re: Odometer stopped
  Historical mailing list - Dan Snow
  Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:07:43 -0700
  I just helped a friend with the same problem--the cable had fallen out of the speedometer. Pop off the top of the instrument...
• Re: Whatever happened to speedo cable lube?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:30:36 -0800
  ...On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:39 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > I went for some speedometer cable lube t'other...
• NLA - lower speedometer cable
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:19:14 -0500
  Checked with a couple of vendors today. I was told this lower cable from the wheel to the OXS box appears to be another...