>
>> 
>> ..sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread, but something similar
>> happened to my '78 Scirocco a while back at about 110,000 mi.  I took
>> the odometer apart myself and *carefully* applied some superglue to the
>> nylon gear (it had split so that it formed a 'c' instead of an 'o', an
>> thus no longer followed the odometer axle as it turned.)  That was 3
>> years and 40,000mi ago and no prob since.
>> 
>> Joachim
>
>The problem with doing this is that because the gear teeth on the cracked gear
>have spread apart, in many case they won't line up with the mating gear.  Over
>time the broken gear just chews up it's opposite member so that you wind up 
>having to replace both of them.  Better to just replace the broken gear in the
>first place.  You got lucky, Joachim.
>
>Jack
>jackr@starfleet.scs.ag.gov
>

I'll keep that in mind.  Knock on wood... I hope I stay lucky :^)
Joachim
beekj@smd6.jsc.nasa.gov
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