Mark -

It depends on exactly which year/model odometer you have.
Different for different years.  Bottom line is that friction holds
the shaft in place.  Silly design to expect a rotating shaft to
not move axially without restraint.  I tried to fab a stop that
touched the end of the shaft to keep it from moving.  Either
my fab work or whatever prevented that from working.

I eventually ended up finding two broken instrument cluster
housings for $50, and mixing and matching with my own
resulted in two functioning clusters.  I used the gear from the
sliding shaft odo and put it on a odo that had a broken gear.
If you have an unbroken gear, you are lucky.  They break
easily when resetting trip odo while moving.

I overpaid for the broken clusters BTW.

- Jeff
Iwanna21/23windowsunroofDeluxe!
'80 Westi(2)   '67 Sqbk   '64 Ford Crewcab
'87 Subaru 4WD (4 Sale)   '97 Nissan Quest
Grass Valley, California, USA
Jeffrey.Carver@Aerojet.com
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My odometer stopped turning last week, and it appeared that the mileage
counter wheels were falling away from the face of the instrument panel
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the right side (low digits). Sure enough when I removed the speedometer,
the axle the wheels turn on had fallen out of the plastic "bearing" on
th=
e
right side. I was able to push the axle back through from the other
side,=

but couldn't figure out how to make it stay. I put it back in the dash,
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nd
sure enough it worked for about a mile before it fell out again.
I've searched the archives and haven't found an answer to this
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problem, any ideas on what holds it in place?

MTB