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Subject:Re: Rebuilding Odometer- Fair Price?
From:John Andrew
Date:Sat, 1 Apr 2000 08:25:59 -0700

Hi,
Speaking of this worm gear, does anyone know a source for these?  I have
scoured junkyards for these and all of them seemed to be cracked.  It seems
to be quite a common problem.  Probably the combination of 20 year old
plastic and the sun beating down on the dash.  If anyone knows of a source,
I need one for my 1980 Westy.  And I have tried the super glue trick.

John Andrew, 1980 Westy (Toffee Pop) and 1984 Westy (Schmooo)
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Kennedy <tim@CASEWORKSOFT.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: Rebuilding Odometer- Fair Price?

>Darrell,
>I've had a couple of these go south on me and all that was wrong is a
>little nylon worm gear slides off a small shaft.
>A drop of locktight super glue or epoxy will probably fix it.
>
>Darrell Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I had a VW repair shop quote me $300 to rebuild my
>> broken odometer.  This seemed steep to me.  How hard
>> are these things to repair?
>>
>> =====
>> Darrell Johnson
>> Mission Viejo, CA
>> 1990 Vanagon Carat
>> (w/LT27X8.5-14 Dunlops)
>>
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