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Well, I got a replacement speedometer for my '80 wagon with 430K miles... Problem was, the replacement speedo had about 195K miles showing.
This replacement speedo is one of the older ones that goes up to 130 mph. It's a wagon speedo (r 0,980).
Well, I've gotten this far:
As you can see, I've gotten the pin that holds all those gears in place above the mileage digits loose. I've rolled the counters to show close enough to the correct mileage, but now I'm having difficulty getting the gears to go back in place.
Does someone have any tips on how I should go about fixing this?
Thanks as always.
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If you listen to the radio in Portland, OR, you may know me as 'Portland's Favorite Soul Brother!'
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Well, I made everything just perfect, and while trying to reset the mileage on this damn thing, I once again broke a perfectly good speedometer needle.
God damn it, you'd think I'd learn from last time...
And I still haven't gotten this damn thing reset properly...
Why are these speedometers so freakin' fragile???
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
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If you listen to the radio in Portland, OR, you may know me as 'Portland's Favorite Soul Brother!'
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Tinkering with the speedo isn't meant to be easy, you're not supposed to do it.
Has anyone ever hooked up an electric motor up to the back of the speedo pickup to simulate the car going at 120 mph. This would work fine for me, cos i only need to add 6000 miles to the car, I could do it in 3 days or so.
Not really an option for HearToTemptYou who needs to add 20 years of hard driving to the odometer.
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This is just a typical Volvo owner's delight.....we don't spin our miles BACK to gain value, we spin them UP.
I've tried and tried to explain this phenomenom to the brain dead rubes in the DMV offices who think that at 100k, the speedo has passed its "mechanical limits".
God, I love these cars.
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My speedo is still perfectly accurate too, after 27 years.
I don't know if this is done in other countries, but here the Police sometimes set up courtesy radar traps. They have a giant LCD display attached to a radar, so drivers can see how fast they're actually going. I went through one with the needle just a whisker under 50km/h and the reading was 49 km/h. Right where it should have been. Nice to see the speedo still works even if my Odmometer doesn't
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Do you still have the stock tire size on your wagon?
Maybe the vans, or RHD models had different tire specs?
My '76 and '80 wagons have 0,980 speedos
Well, if nothing else from this whole ordeal, I've figured out how to change the mileage on these things. I can probably swap the needle from another speedo I suppose...
And yes, here in the States, at least in Oregon, we get those radar things too. Sometimes I question their accuracy though. My speedometer tends to read a little faster then what the radars say.
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If you listen to the radio in Portland, OR, you may know me as 'Portland's Favorite Soul Brother!'
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Yes I kept the stock tire profile, although I've fitted bridgestone 195s not 185s on the front. I want to keep the stock rims, just because I like the look of the chrome hubcaps.
If I could find a similar looking 15" steel rim that would take that size hubcap, I would fit them, but I don't want to change the look of the car.
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Well, what I forgot to mention in my previous post is that the Stock tire size for wagons is pretty much impossible to find these days, at least here in the States...
I still question the accuracy of my speedo at times...
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If you listen to the radio in Portland, OR, you may know me as 'Portland's Favorite Soul Brother!'
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I wouldn't bother fitting the stock tires, although Michelin do theoretically still make 185/75/14s (according to their website). I'm happy to just keep the same tire profile and have them 10 or 20mm wider. I think dunlop make a 185 in the correct profile that will fit on the 14" bottle caps.
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I ride around with a GPS (Garmin StreetPilot), and whenever I go through one of those (as someone here called it) "courtesy radar trap", they're almost dead on with my GPS indicator. So if your speedometer is usually at odds with the radar, I'd say it's your speedometer (or tire size, etc.)that's at fault.
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Well regardless of whether the Police reading are correct, they're the one's who get to write the speeding tickets, so I'll go by what they say.
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You want your mileage 300 miles higher? Only a Volvo owner...
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Well, I can't go around misrepresenting my car's proper mileage.
It's worked hard for these 430K miles.
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If you listen to the radio in Portland, OR, you may know me as 'Portland's Favorite Soul Brother!'
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I'm going to need to do the same thing when I get my odometer working again. I've been driving around looking at 89857 on the speedo since I got it roadworthy. Mum says the Speedo cable went at 49K as well, so there's probably about 10,000 that should be added on.
I'll run it up to 99,900, so I can watch it tick over to 100,000 while I'm driving.
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Even if I did have my car displaying the correct 100,000 Kms or so, (60K Miles) That would not be an accurate reflection of how much it's been subjected to. 60,000 miles does not sound like a terribly hard life for a car, unless you know that the car spent it's life in the inner city, where the distances are short, but the traffic is a bitch.
60,000 miles of constant gear changes, clutch slipping, steep hills in my neighbourhood, lots of starts, stops, and 3 point turns . The motor is constantly finishing the journey before it's even warmed up yet, then cooling down to be woken up again.
It's already on it's second clutch, needs a new starter motor and could do with a new tranny. The suspension bushings and shock absorbers are toast. 60,000 miles in second gear are not kind to a car, although according to the mileage it should be nearly brand new.
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Those of us that've seen "Mad Max" and "The Road Warrior" know how you Aussies run your vehicles..:)
Keep up the good fight, and watch out for the "Night Rider"!
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When I'm finally finished this car, and I trust it on really long journey's (could do with an in-tank pump and fuel sender first), it's taking the 1129km trip to Broken hill, where my girlfriend was born. For those of you who don't know your Australian cinema history, that's where Mad Max was filmed.
I think it needs to have it's air conditioning fixed too before I try and drive it across the simpson desert.
Anyway, driving across Australia is the eventual plan with my car, which I would be pround of if I could manage it in a car that was headed for the crusher when I got it.
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Just be patient in fiddling the gears back in place. It'll prolly take a few tries, as the digit gear can fall in the half-positions too. You don't want that to happen.
-- Kane ... BTW, it looks familiar. :)
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"BTW, it looks familiar. :)"
Heh heh heh... I'll bet it does...
Boy, this thing sure is a PIA to get together properly...
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