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Subject:Re: Speedometer Part
From:Edmund Shotwell
Date:Tue, 20 May 2003 17:38:59 -0400

How do I reach him?

-----Original Message-----
From: developtrust [mailto:developtrust@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 5:22 PM
To: Edmund Shotwell
Subject: Re: Speedometer Part

Check with Mark Drillock. He helped me fix mine.

> I have a 86 GL with an odometer problem.  When I got the van the odometer
> did not work at all and I noticed that the numbers seemed to be falling
back
> into the face a little.  I took it apart and the dial of numbers for the
> miles had in fact slipped out of a little hole in the side of the unit.  I
> was able to slide them back in place and the odometer worked fine for 3
> weeks. Then it slipped back out.  So I took it apart a second time and
this
> time I noticed a small brass nut on the tripometer dial that was not on
the
> odometer dials.  I have not been able to find any vanagons in my local
> junkyards and was wondering if anyone knew a substitute donor for the
little
> brass piece.
> Thanks in advance.  Ed Shotwell
>

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