Any idea what a good lube would be?  Might as well do it since the speedo is
out anyway.

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill H." <starfinder88@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: Life after speedometer, why do they break?

> I had trouble with my speedometer (88GL) for years and even disconnected
the
> trip tick by removing the connecting gear but I finally took it to a local
> speedometer shop. The guy said the real problem was the old grease in the
> speedometer, which dries up and gets stiff. He said it was special stuff
and
> toxic so anything I added just made it worse (I had tried graphite - worst
I
> could have used). So he cleaned it up, replaced the missing gear and lubed
it
> for $50 or so and its worked like new for several years now.
>
> Bill H.
> 88GL
>
> --- Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
> > Chris and other list members,
> >
> > I drove my 84 Vanagon as my daily driver for almost 20 years and pushed
> > the reset button while moving after about 85% of my refills.  It never
> > broke.  That van has gone to the crusher.  In my other vans I do it less
> > because conventional list wisdom says I am going to break it if I do,
> > but I still do it while moving sometimes, although I usually do it with
> > the clutch in and coasting for some reason.  I just usually forget to
> > push the reset while in the station and remember after I am moving and I
> > don't want to get out of traffic to stop and reset it.
> >
> > How do we really know that this resetting while moving breaks tripmeters
> > and that it is not just that some of them break because they are old and
> > we are assuming that it is because they were reset while moving that
> > caused the breakage.  I don't ever remember seeing this explained, but
> > just seeing the assertion that they will break if you do this.  But
> > maybe it has been explained.
> >
> > If someone has explained this in the past, just point me to the post by
> > telling me about when you wrote and the user name you had at the time.
> > I'll look it up.
> >
> > In the meantime, I'll try to be good and reset my tripmeter in the gas
> > station just to be safe - but inquiring minds want to know, do I really
> > have to do this?  :<)
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > --
> > Sam Walters
> > Baltimore, MD
> >
> > 89 Syncro GL
> > 85 Westy Weekender
> >
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