There's a gear at the end of your odometer that drives the whole assembly.
That gears is slipping on the steel odometer shaft.  Dissasseble
speedometer, gingerly glue gear,  reassemble.  Voila.

Chris,

'85 Westy.

P.S. Don't use too much glue as it will leak onto the adjacent spinning
numbers.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Zappe" <Zapvw@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:00 PM
Subject: odometer quit

> well my speedometer is still working but the odometer just quit.  what do
i
> need to do?  its nothing to do with the cable is it?  any info would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> andy
> 80 vanagon L
> 85 westy - one with the odometer problem
>