Hello Fellow Bricksters,

Went down to the local PUP Saturday and had a really good day. Found at long last the missing trim that goes across the back tailgate of a 245 Wagon, a really nice clear lens for the right rear tail light, and matching blue station wagon plastic hard ware. Our local sharks that pull all tail light assemblies had not found this one (just arrived). Also saw that the Odometer had seemed to have been working. Finally found that gear that I needed to get Inga back to tracking miles so out it came and today was the day.

However when I opened up Inga, found a mess of melted platic goo where the big gear should have been. The little white gear was a soft mess also. Looks like someone tired to lube the gear. Cleaned it out (or so I thought) and installed the new gear. Put it all together and it worked. Started kind of jerking, but we had mileage movement. That is until .5 miles into the victory lap and then it fell still. Opened it back up and found that several teeth on the little gear, and one tooth of the big gear were broke. Used a screw driver to rotate the mating gears and found more teeth stuck in them. Removed them and reinstalled the Speedo until another one can be found.

Question is what to use to lube the gears in the Speedo or clean them. There was something sprayed in there to melt that plastic is my thinking. Do not want to waste another effort in the future.

Any and all ideas are welcome, solicited, and as always greatly appreciated. And of course as always spam free, no login required, and don’t ask – don’t tell.

Regards,

PT