After rebuilding mine about 4 times, and never getting the repair to
last very long, I bit the bullet and bought a new one from Camelback. I
took an oath to never ever reset the odometer with the vehicle moving -
ever. Haven't had any problems. This was about 5 years ago.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

dhanson@gorge.net wrote:
>   As the subject line states, just yesterday after I tried to Zero out the tripmeter on my 84s'
> odometer, it now no longer works.  For some time, it's been a little "touchy" when you push in on
> the button to roll the trip meter back to zero...kinda catches and doesn't always move all the
> digits exactly to the right place. With a little 'finessing' I could coax in into functioning until
> now.  A few times, it counted off a few tenths and then stalled(the trip meter) but the main odo
> continued to chalk up the miles. With some fiddling, I could get the tripmeter working. Now, neither
> the tripmeter or the main mileage counter (currently reads 295183) moves at all.  The speedo still
> works properly.  Pushing the Reset Button does not move the mile counters in the slightest anymore.
>
>   Is it worthwhile to dig into the speedo and see what broke?  Glue something back together?  Or
> should I try to find a replacment?  I really depend on that tripmeter to keep track of my
> fueling..my gas guage is laughable, reading 1/2 tank used in about 50 miles and reaching the 1/4
> full mark after 100 miles...then going through empty into the red during the final 200 miles I allow
> myself before searching out a filling station.
>   Thanks, I bet I could have found this in the archives but I am on battery power with my laptop..I
> find the archives of the list very frustrating, so I am asking outright.
>   Don Hanson
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